Gas Giant Centered Orbital

I, like a lot of people, cannot wait for gas giants - but what about some new orbital units for it? well, I thought of a few, and here they are (with very bad, quick sketches) --



Orbital Teleporter
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The orbital teleporter allows you to send planes and orbital units through it. Can move up and down.
Optimized for Orbital Platform (keep reading)




Orbital Platforms
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The orbital platforms allow you to build ground buildings orbiting gas giants instead ; however, it is extremely expensive and requires its own factory. Can ONLY BE USED ON GAS GIANTS.




Orbital Metal Extractor
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Used to extract metal from the top layer of the Gas Giant's core. There will be a meter like the ones for metal and energy, except it slowly goes down and does not regenerate. The drill extends down to the core to mine.





Advanced Orbital Factory
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Built by an Advanced Fab. Orbital Unit, which is built from an orbiting orbital factory. Appears like a ground factory, but can build 3x as fast as a ground factory. Also used to build the new orbital satellites.

Sorry about my crappy drawings.

The orbital platforms thing is really interesting.
Overall I like these ideas. +1

I like the idea of orbital teleporters - even though, after extensively discussing them with Brian, they don't make much sense gameplay-wise, they still sound like a cool idea

If we have travel time actually dependent on distance between planets in large system being able to reinforce orbital units in a fast fashion is important. Also maybe if you cant drop down a ground teleporter it may be easier to teleport units with the orbital one with asteriouses.

Floating Rock Islands to get the Air involved....with Orbital....that would be interesting

wait, how would you build ground buildings on gas giants?

The platforms? They are orbital, but they have a flat top which you can build on. They also kind of snap together like legos, so you can move ENTIRE BASES AROUND ON THE GAS GIANT.

The platforms? They are orbital, but they have a flat top which you can build on. They also kind of snap together like legos, so you can move ENTIRE BASES AROUND ON THE GAS GIANT.

Whoops, posted twice.

This will only work if the plaforms are cheap, snap together like minecraft cubes, and are owner-agnostic. You should be able to join your platforms to an opponents platform non-consensually.

Why not, then you can make a bridge to them to raid their stuff.

I mean, (I just thought of this) you could make a platform with tons of units on it, another with a radar, staple them together, and tell it to scout. What would happen? It would collide with another station, and make an ARMY OF ARMIES! IT WOULD BE EPIC!

I had a suggestion for this, they would essentially work as a way to move things between planets without showing up on orbital radar as they move between planets.

You definitely have my support for the floating platform/islands idea.

Honestly, the platforms don't sound particularly useful. All you could really use them for is placing eco or radar, and there's more efficient orbital versions of those. I suppose you could build miniature land bases with teleporters, but that's a little niche for a feature that seems like it would take quite a bit of use and be used rather rarely as it would come from your advanced orbital factory.

I'd like to see more orbital combat options, rather than the 2-unit balance we have now. There's quite a bit of untapped design space- orbital missile killsats, mini drone carriers, AoE EMP blasts, railguns, etc- orbital could be a playground for the really advanced and pretty tech.

I'd made a suggestion somewhat like this before, as an asteroid replacement in systems that don't have asteroids; a kind of small orbital body that can be used for launching orbital assaults by changing its orbit (telling it to orbit your enemy's base, etc).
I'm gonna be honest, the idea of sticking them together doesn't really sound feasible to me though.

LEGOS IS NOT A WORD.

You know what I mean.

Platforms would be extreme useful once the unit cannons are in play. Right now, a swarm of bombers can instantly destroy a teleporter and any units that made it through. But with the platforms, you could have factories constantly producing units that move to the unit cannon to drop down to the surface. That would fix the issue of teleporter sniping and help the current issue of unattackable planets.