ideas

posted on January 25th, 2010, 9:57 pm

hi me and my friends were wondering if you could make the planets destructible and colonizable. that would bring more strategy and fun to the game

posted on January 25th, 2010, 10:00 pm

Welcome to the site.

Destructable may be possible or may not. They have health but no special code I can see to make them invulnerable, so it might be a hardcoded thing.

Planetary colonisation is missed by some, but it was considered too unrealistic to colonise a planet in a battlezone. I don't know if it will be included as a 'defend the colony' game type, but it likely won't be back as a run-of-the-mill feature.

posted on January 25th, 2010, 10:28 pm

Couldn't you make a planet out of a "station" that looks like a "planet"?

No shields or weapons but would have stupidly high Hull (because it's uh... a planet) and could be manned by crew as per normal. You'd need to use special troopships to invade and take over!

posted on January 26th, 2010, 12:02 am

welcome to the forums!

@ phoenix

thats entirely possible

posted on January 26th, 2010, 4:09 am

It's a Dyson Sphere 

posted on January 26th, 2010, 8:01 am

its not unrealistic to have a science team or something land and set up defences.

Mabye planets could have a random bonus giving them a tactical use? Like this planet gives shields a boost, this one cause special energy to recharge faster.

Mabye planets cause ships to heal faster in there AoE.

posted on January 26th, 2010, 8:32 am

Doca mentioned something a while back about planets being useful if a starbase is built near one.  For example, you might receive a small supply bonus over time for having a starbase over a planet.  He was looking for ideas, so if you guys have any about bonuses for an area, post them.  It sounded like they could implement almost anything.

posted on January 26th, 2010, 8:46 am

I'm pretty excited by these ideas. Maybe using a planet to provide a small area defense bonus? Or perhaps have a large neutral planet in the center of a map and have one team or another have to secure it to receive either some map only units or a bonus to supply income?

posted on January 26th, 2010, 8:57 am

A bonus for supplies gained over time on a constant basis sounds very likely to me. Noone says all the planets on FO-maps are uninhabited. 
Defense bonus not so much, because for this there should at least be a colony of the own faction on it or something (which is not FO-like at all).
But, since many ships orbit planets in the series in order to repair whenever they can, why shouldn't ships and stations near to planets get a small repair bonus for hull and subsystems?