Using orbital habitats

[Migi]

Wealth generation is tied to industry in C# so to gain the benefit of wealth generation you need to be able to ship industry to the habitat, which you currently can't do. While it would be an interesting feature, I've not seen any indication that Steve is looking at adding this.

[Droll]

While it would be an interesting feature, I've not seen any indication that Steve is looking at adding this.

You might want to read Steves replies near the beginning of this thread. I would argue that he has definitely considered it.

[linkxsc]

Random Habitat question. With the new limitations on how many people a planet can support. (Earth is 12b for example). Do orbital habitats let the player exceed this amount, say in a "sun heating/cooling" scenario, where people would abandon an uninhabitable earth for spaceborne colonies?

[Elvin]

Yeah, the orbital habitats population limit is counted separately to the planet itself. Although excess population from the habitats will still move to the planet, if they can, and they'll also create and use infrastructure too.

[Borealis4x]

Regarding that, I do really hope that free-floating colonies without planets eventually become a thing.  I think they would make sense, there would be a lot of benefits, and it would be a cool thing if you eventually had most of your civilization in space because of said benefits.

I'd love that for when I have 'dead' systems with no planets in them. I'd setup a 'complex' which is really just a fleet with different stations acting as 'modules'.

It would have a habitation section, sensor section, hangar section, and a gas station. They'd be great to act as mid-points for AI traders to generate some commerce in-between actual systems.

[hammer58]

First time I am using Orbital habitat.  I want to use it for mining Venus.  So I built an OH with only habitat modules pop cap 600,000.  Towed it to Venus.  Now I have no colony at Venus.  So I create a colony.  Then my civilian ships bring pop over to Venus and put them on the ground and they die.  No one goes into the Orbital Habitat.  What is going on? In the colony summary display it shows orbital pop capacity . 6 million.  But no one goes up there they all go to the surface and die.  How do I set this up so they live on the orbital not on the surface?

[Droll]

First time I am using Orbital habitat.  I want to use it for mining Venus.  So I built an OH with only habitat modules pop cap 600,000.  Towed it to Venus.  Now I have no colony at Venus.  So I create a colony.  Then my civilian ships bring pop over to Venus and put them on the ground and they die.  No one goes into the Orbital Habitat.  What is going on? In the colony summary display it shows orbital pop capacity . 6 million.  But no one goes up there they all go to the surface and die.  How do I set this up so they live on the orbital not on the surface?

When designing the habitat did you check the "no armor" checkbox?

[QuakeIV]

I dont think that checkbox is actually required for it to work

[Froggiest1982]

I dont think that checkbox is actually required for it to work

Maybe it's a bug or maybe it's wai.

I always built OH on stations as once you tug them on site it's done, no need to them to move by themselves.

[hammer58]

Yes I built it with no armor and conscript crew box checked. 

[db48x]

Try towing it to Venus again, now that you have a colony there. There have been bugs related to ships not associating themselves with colonies correctly before.

[hammer58]

Ok It is working now.  Not sure what fixed it.  I did remove the colony and created a new colony on Venus after I sent a second Orbital habitat to Venus.  So the pop cap is now 1. 2 million at Venus. 
And now it is all working.  Perhaps pop caps under 1 million caused my issue? Or it was just bugged and a reset fixed it. 

I was thinking I did miss something when I set it up the first time.  I thought perhaps the Orbital habitat needed to be anchored to the colony somehow.  That was why I asked how this is supposed to work.  Guess I was over thinking it. 

[Froggiest1982]

Ok It is working now.  Not sure what fixed it.  I did remove the colony and created a new colony on Venus after I sent a second Orbital habitat to Venus.  So the pop cap is now 1. 2 million at Venus. 
And now it is all working.  Perhaps pop caps under 1 million caused my issue? Or it was just bugged and a reset fixed it. 

I was thinking I did miss something when I set it up the first time.  I thought perhaps the Orbital habitat needed to be anchored to the colony somehow.  That was why I asked how this is supposed to work.  Guess I was over thinking it.

Probably you must create the colony before towing the modules.

[QuakeIV]

Sub 1 million populations are entirely supposed to be possible.  It was most likely a bug, if you see it again you should post the save so Steve can investigate.

[db48x]

It's clearly in response to hammer58 who said:

Perhaps pop caps under 1 million caused my issue?