Aurora 4x
New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Kingfisher on February 18, 2012, 09:26:15 AM
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What is an orbital base? they are mentioned a bit but what are they. Also, is it possible to stick a PDC on an asteroid or moon?
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Orbitals are just ships with no engines.
PDCs can be built anywhere you can create a "colony" by engineering brigades.
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So what, a dingy freighter with troop capacity and I've got beam defense systems through Sol. Nice. Also do bases act like colonies if they have living space?
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Orbital habitats add to the living capacity of the colony they orbit. Population in orbital habitats ignore harsh-environment agricultural penalties. Note that designs classed as orbital habitats can be constructed with planetary industry.
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OH's also ignore gravity restrictions. This is the only way to have manual mining of asteroids, for example. Usually automines or Asteroid Miners are a better solution but RP-wise or in some special circumstances you might want to go that way.
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What I still haven't figured out--
when you put an OH on a planet incapable of sustaining any population... say, gravity too low-- what happens when the population reaches the maximum supported by the OH?
I am about to embark on an orbital habitat construction spree to beef up colonization of the sol, sirrius, and centauri systems.
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How do you assign it to a planet?
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What I still haven't figured out--
when you put an OH on a planet incapable of sustaining any population... say, gravity too low-- what happens when the population reaches the maximum supported by the OH?
I am about to embark on an orbital habitat construction spree to beef up colonization of the sol, sirrius, and centauri systems.
Growth on orbitals stops at 100% capacity.
How do you assign it to a planet?
For orbital habitats Individual unit screen (F6), assigned population dropdown top right.
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Only thing is they do cost a bit. Mini bases might be a future addition instead of 50000 citizens perhaps tech it out a 10k, 25k and a 50k orbital habitat design
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You're trying to build them from a shipyard I take it? If so look at Industry -> build options -> build PDC/Orbital habitat.
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OH fall under the PDC OH building section of industry screen
Civilian built OH may have a place ingame around civlian mining colonies at some point