How is terraforming done?
I have searched the forum for terraforming ship ideas, but still I'm confused. The designs I see have an intended deployment time of 3 months, but the terraforming modules produce very tiny amounts of atmosphere each year. Would the ship have to stay in orbit until the job is completed?
Or, would it work to just produce a terraforming unit on Earth and drop it onto a planet or moon? I have done this on Luna. First I declared Luna to be a colony, then dropped infrastructure and colonists onto it. Now I have dropped 1 terraforming unit onto Luna. What comes next? Do you have to activate the unit?
Terraforming can be done both in orbit or on the ground. In orbit, the ship or ships must be all the time in the planet's orbit, the mechanic is no different than the one of the harvesters. You always need to create a colony to terraform, although it can be empty of colonists for as long as you wish, if you are using terraforming installations you must have people as they require population to be operational. Rules over requirements have been changed in the latest version and you can see the updated here:
https://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=12523.msg160538#msg160538In the latest version of Aurora, if you haven't played the VB6, rules for terraforming have also changed and you can access to the new ones here:
https://aurora2.pentarch.org/index.php?topic=8495.msg102115#msg102115The reason you require a colony is to have access to the environmental tab as per below
The way it works is to set the required quantity of any gas you need, then you thick add gas if you want to add, or leave it untick if you want to remove the gas. There is a lot more into it, but you may be able to find some hints here and there.
In my example I am removing some gas from the atmosphere.