Posted by: xeryon
« on: May 05, 2014, 04:09:05 PM »As far as managing water as a physical asset to be produced I agree that it would be a needless layer of complexity.
There are things that could be tweaked to make it more meaningful though. A minimum colony cost for bodies without water sounds reasonable. To go hand in hand with that the number of bodies that contain a hydrosphere may need to be improved upon. Or at the least change hydrosphere to 'Water Presence' as recent discoveries are quickly expanding the number of bodies in our system that are believed to contain non-trivial amounts of water. Extrapolating the percentage of bodies in our system with water present in some form that percentage, with variance, should be applied to all extra-solar system bodies based on stellar age.
I did a quick search and came up with the following image. Not entirely sure on the accuracy but the premise is valid.
http://io9.com/5827649/a-map-of-all-the-water-in-the-solar-system
There are things that could be tweaked to make it more meaningful though. A minimum colony cost for bodies without water sounds reasonable. To go hand in hand with that the number of bodies that contain a hydrosphere may need to be improved upon. Or at the least change hydrosphere to 'Water Presence' as recent discoveries are quickly expanding the number of bodies in our system that are believed to contain non-trivial amounts of water. Extrapolating the percentage of bodies in our system with water present in some form that percentage, with variance, should be applied to all extra-solar system bodies based on stellar age.
I did a quick search and came up with the following image. Not entirely sure on the accuracy but the premise is valid.
http://io9.com/5827649/a-map-of-all-the-water-in-the-solar-system