Posted by: Demetrious
« on: May 25, 2022, 02:06:16 PM »There is a need to build spaceport.
According to wiki (http://aurorawiki.pentarch.org/index.php?title=C-Installations#Spaceport):QuoteSpaceports have the added benefit of reducing the time spent loading/unloading any type of cargo: a colony with a single Spaceport will have loading times halved, whilst one with two Spaceports will have it lowered to 1/3 of normal speed, and one with three Spaceports will have it lowered to 1/4, and so on.
So there is a reason.
That benefit is rather massive, too, if you consider how often you will be loading/unloading cargo from a major population and manufacturing center. The 1 million population requirement and the staggering eighty standard cargo holds size of the facility is the balancing factor for that. Note that setting up full services on a planet without the spaceport (fuel, cargo and munitions) requires a good thirty cargo holds on its own, but no population requirement means they're well suited for rando barren rocks that are acting as forward military outposts and such. Clear use-cases for each.