Unit cannon on water

SO in a game today I discovered that a giant planetary engine that can move large planets can be built on water but a unit launcher can't.....can someone please explain why?

I'm hoping this is an oversight on Uber's part. Halley's shouldn't be able to be built on water if you ask me. And I certainly don't want them to allow unit cannons to be built on water. We definitely need a water teleporter though.

I agree what you are saying with hallies, but why the unit cannon? If we get a water teleporter it wouldn't be an issue.

Super weapons should be limited as to where they can be built. Just my opinion. It gives the game more strategical variety.

I agree what you are saying with hallies, but why the unit cannon? If we get a water teleporter it wouldn't be an issue.

This just occurred to me- what if naval units could be produced in a unit cannon? They could either land in the water, or crash and serve as a fixed turret.

Ridiculous!

Just give us a water teleporter.

The unit cannon was implemented in order to invade overly secured planets ("turtling"). We don't need the unit cannon shooting boats, and it would look stupid anyway (in my opinion).

*Light illuminates one of my eyes, and i look up*
*smiles*

PA IS FOUNDED ON RIDICULOUS!

This is true! However it is also true that I don't want to see the unit cannon fire Unicorns either...

Moon....Boats.....
Glad at least two people find this a little odd

I might want to see unicorns fired from a unit cannon....

Only possible with rainbow particle effects!

Glad to see that uber is taking this thread to the tops to make sure this serious thread is used to help grow the community

I've seen the argument come up before. It's a suggestion that some are for and others against.
But this was the first time someone mentioned the idea of unicorns being shot from one and I couldn't resist... I heart unicorns.

Modders pls?

No.

I keep thinking ill take time to do it, along with another mod, possibly both of those without unitlist.json just to keep it all capatable with one another, but I keep not.

I am also supposed to make a bubble-shield/point-defense-system.

The latter will be tedious and laggy. How do you plan to work around the lag from a beam that fires 50 times a second?

Making the number of projectiles it can intercept it's limit. If it intercepts 2 a second, it is rather powerful and effective. Its speed of turret aim shouldn't cause lag. The most lag should come from the extra tracking effort it takes the server to process projectiles that are "tracked". Most projectiles by default are not tracked in a manner that a weapon can predict it's flight path.

bby pls you know you want to just take the Rainbow Artillery mod and add a horse as the projectile!

That doesn't make any sense, why shouldn't the unit cannon be buildable on water?