Not sure if this deserves a thread of its own, but I figured I may as well anyway. Seeing as we already have a Nuke Silo which creates a nuke and stores it before launch, why not extend the system to orbital factories. For each type of satellite, have one hanger per factory ie. each factory can store one radar satellite, one orbital meatball dispenser and so on. When you know what orbit you want to launch them at, you select the stored satellite, click at a distance/direction away from the facility to set the power/direction of the orbit and then it your satellite takes off and orbits as chosen. Whether you could change orbits during flight or whether elliptical orbits would be an option I don't know, but it seems like a fairly simple way to get things working given existing systems
I first thought orbital stuff required 2 buildings: the factory and the launcher. Like in the concept trailer, you build rockets at the launcher and you load units in them and then launch them. Orbital units made on a surface factory come on transports or packages (not a separate unit, it comes with it) that load into the rocket. Any unit could load, how else are you going to get your comm to different planet using rockets? using this way, you don't need to store units in the launcher (and they are neither immediately launched after being completed) or choose which one you want to launch, you simply load them in with a right-click, like a normal lander/transport. ... I never understood the point of catapults, they're just lobbers that fire missiles. I want the Nuke launcher, Anti-Nuke and catapult to be one unit, a missile silo that can build any kind of missile. This would be better if they're going to add more types missiles, so they don't have to make a separate launcher/ anti-laucher for it. ... So that's pretty much how I think of it, and agreed, orbital units shouldn't have to be immediately launched after being built. I just want rockets like in the concept trailer, cuz they're cool and impressive.
