Can OHs be implemented into PDCs?
Not sure what you're aiming for, Unlimited.
PDC is an acronym for Planetary Defense Center while OH is Orbital Habitat. . .
Unless I'm misunderstanding, the mechanic for increasing the living capacity on a planet is via infrastructure, representing anything from breathing mask handout booths to all up atmospheric domes.
Are you suggesting an Orbital Defense Center with mechanics and rules like the current PDC that would follow any if-implemented Orbital Habitat mechanics? Or a different way of extending population via components attached to the PDCs built currently?
Well I know ONE good reason to allow them on PDCs
(possibly with another name).
Hollowed out Asteroid Habitats (i. e. hollowed out and spun up to provide sufficent Pseudo G)
If you could put them on PDCs you could easily simulate these by building the prefabs of the PDC (there would be a few!) and then either
a) adding a few Engineering battalions and using their construction output to assemble the habitat. then moving in the population
b) Sending out a 'Construction' habitat with a few construction factories and filling it with colonists once it gets there, then assembling the PDC and moving out the 'Construction' habitat elsewhere, while leaving the colonists in their new home!
The PDCs extra armour would even simulate the extra protection of the rest of the asteroids mass
, and any extra ones you build just acts as though you are expanding the hollowed out volume.
This would be much more fitting than having orbital Habitats just surrounding the colony. . . and as PDCs are not always visible if they haven't been active (I think. . . ) it could be a stealthy base. . . especially if all else has been lost! And if you put one on an existing 'normal' colony it would just effectively be a bunkered population environment (in case of last resort)
Heck you might even find old Precursor Asteroid Habitats as a new type of 'mothballed' Precursor find, possibly even still acting as a base for active Precursor ships
What does everyone else think about this idea?
Edit: Just thinking about the issues involved with non-asteroid emplaced PDC habitats, to avoid the use of these on uninhabitable (other than asteroids) planetary objects you could check for either the g's being in the safe zone OR it being an asteroid (I assume this would be possible as asteroids are treated differently for mining and orbits) and if it isn't the habitat just wouldn't work
, if it is it would work exactly like a standards orbital habitat for population in it,