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Platforms... a few suggestions for the future... |
Drafell
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Mythica
Joined: May 30, 2003
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From: United Kingdom
|  Posted: 2004-03-25 09:14
First... platforms would need to be hugely expensive for this idea. No idea's on the exact resources needed and/or cost yet.
You have you 3 basic types of platform
Sensor/Supply/Defense
For all platforms I want to see them needing resources to function. So that as the depot repairs ships it eats up metal and heavy metal, as the def base fires it needs resources to replace ammo etc.
My suggestion is for these platforms to also support having thier own build locations so that you can upgrade various features. This could be based of the same basic structures as used on planets.
Let say a Supply Platform has a Colony hub and Cortex Nexus already inbuilt and 2-3 additional build locations. This would mean you could build a barracks or sensor bases or low level defenses this platform. Its this or have platforms as not having any particular purpose until you build those modules on it.
Just an idea...
*edit*
You could also have the ability to build a mining module on the platform. You could then have it in orbit of an inferno class planet or in an asteroid field, and it could then mine resources which have to be manually shipped to planets by players or used to replenish it own resources requirements and to build extra modules.
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[ This Message was edited by: Drafell (Recruiting){RIP R33} on 2004-03-25 09:22 ]
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