Buildable Metal Planets....

So I noticed something about Metal Planets.. namely how they are metal... and one of the resources in the game is metal... and....


I think you see where I am going with this! Get your orbital fabber out, cuz we're going to space to make our own metal planet!

You could drag to adjust the size, which would determine its metal worth, and the generated planet would of course have no mex points.

Once you have established the planet, you must colonize it, and maybe even fight for it, if your enemy catches on quick enough. Build your catalysts... and... ZZZAP!

We already destroy planets, and the whole point of the game is to create and destroy.

No time to stop playing God now. Let's do it!

Besides, these Commanders will stop at nothing to eliminate their enemy.

Please post your opinions below.

You're going to hollow out other planets to build one.

Seems like a pointless idea because it's going to be so expensive that you're better off just building Halleys on the planets you're mining.

What if you don't have crashable planets?

and about the hollowing....

"We're not going for realistic, we're going for Awesome." -Brad Nicholson
Metal is infinite in this game sooooooo... lets do it

I don't know if building metal planets with an orbital fabricator is feasible given current rendering technology and engine limits.

But if this is possible, then yes, I would like to build my own planets and zap the enemy.

Then I'd use a moon. If there's no moons left, and bombing the pants out of the enemy isn't an option, then I'd go build the smallest planet possible (after all, why build an expensive planet when a cheap one has the same laser).

And since we're not going for realistic, we should be able to mine metal out of our own metal planets.

Mining mrtal from your planet is the realistic bit. And from a gameplay standpoint it'd be bad. Whem they say "we're not shootimg for realism, we're shooting fore awesome: they meant "we're shootimg for awesome from a gameplay stand point. Same reaskm there are ml experimentals.

Also sorry for typos, computer's broken so im using a tablet with huge yet tiny keys and no auto correct, its reallh hard to hit the right keys.

I think the idea is that a galactic-scale civilization was able to create some of these only after a massive engineering project that would have taken a lot of time and resources even for people as powerful as them. The few remaining commanders in the galaxy probably can't even begin to consider building one. Even if they could, would they? They seem programmed to focus just on destroying.

This would simply be awesome.

I think it's a very viable idea. Maybe not metal planets itself, but planetoids or some sort of artificial 'asteroid' would be pretty cool. Would have to be memory friendly, though. Otherwise a stalemate could turn into last RAM-chip standing.

But Annihilasers are not human technology. It's from an ancient alien race, the commanders would have no knowledge on how to build one.

Gameplay wise, would take too much resources and time than a normal game would allow.

I mean, it would take 30 minutes to get dug into this strategy, by which you could have double-nuked a commander. To actually implement the planet and THEN laser with it, you could have carpet-bombed the enemy planet with nukes.

Well, let's keep a basic sense of logic. I mean, based off of that, what robot army would construct a metal planet, while at war, to be able to provide its own resources? I mean, that's like having a tank that produces metal. It just can't be done.

But still

awesome

What if the enemy planet is out of nuke range

A lot of things like propulsing planets into another are rather over the top pointless ways to achieve things.

this is a great idea. I don't see why building yourself a death star should be a no in the game.

I do kind of like the idea of being able to build one of these from scratch.

However, I think it should take so much mass and energy that you can ONLY build them in orbit of Gas Planets. (gives them another purpose) maybe a few million mass and who knows how much energy. Just ginormous amounts.

Also, how about different size Metal planets, the bigger ones can fire more often?

Aha! I was looking for a reason to build larger ones other than being able to set up more on them. And the gas giant idea is decent, but I personally wouldn't implement it. However, I wouldn't mind if it were implemented. Stay classy man

Maybe be able to build "sub-metal planets" That are only a portion at first and are only useful for building stuff on, then as you complete more sections, it gains the Annhlaser, and as you build ever more stuff, it can fire more often?

Nukes can go anywhere in a system

good to know