Posted by: Rich.h
« on: July 19, 2020, 05:29:12 AM »I think mass drivers already fill this role perfectly, if you apply some house rules that is.
Personally I only allow mass drivers to be used on planets/moons, all interplanetary/interstellar transports happen via actual ships. Now the mass drivers themselves you can call whatever you want, it might be a series of short range shuttles, or it could be a star trek style transport system etc. The point being it has a direct limitation on how much can be moved based on the amount of installations.
With the 1.12 update allowing for ships to wait until they are full, this system will be even easier to work as you are no longer wasting fuel on half empty runs.
Having bodies share population and other things I don't think will work well at all. It would create ways where you can exploit mining for example on many moons all at once, based on a large population on a single planet. In addition it removes the basic point of making populated colonies at all anywhere.
Personally I only allow mass drivers to be used on planets/moons, all interplanetary/interstellar transports happen via actual ships. Now the mass drivers themselves you can call whatever you want, it might be a series of short range shuttles, or it could be a star trek style transport system etc. The point being it has a direct limitation on how much can be moved based on the amount of installations.
With the 1.12 update allowing for ships to wait until they are full, this system will be even easier to work as you are no longer wasting fuel on half empty runs.
Having bodies share population and other things I don't think will work well at all. It would create ways where you can exploit mining for example on many moons all at once, based on a large population on a single planet. In addition it removes the basic point of making populated colonies at all anywhere.