Why aren't there moons?

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I don't mean the little astroids orbiting a planet either.

Obviously I am still new to the game and have very rarely dabbled in modding (and I am not very good at it either        :( ).  I always love a good mod that could be excepted in the "should have been in the orginal game" mind set.

 

Maybe a challenge to the modding community due to my craptacular modding skills is to create a mod for some moons (they don't necessarily need to revolve around the planet in an orbit, that would make mining them a bit harder).  However make the moons mine-able like the little asteroids around planets but yield slightly more resources such as more metal, more crystals, or increases taxes of the planet somehow for more credits. 

 

This change of course can change slightly how game play is played especially if moons are worth more metal or crystal.

 

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Also consdier things like some planets are capable of having more moons then others.

Like for instance gas giants can carry up to 5 seperate moons (because gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space) versus a terran world that can support only 1-2 moons. That makes fighting for things such as gas giants much more important especially if a gas giant is sandwiched between 2 empires
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
This one would first fall to the modelers out there. With a model for a moon with another model for when an extractor is built on it, I could have a go at trying to add them. Would be hard though, and might only be possible with the final mod tools.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
This one would first fall to the modelers out there. With a model for a moon with another model for when an extractor is built on it, I could have a go at trying to add them. Would be hard though, and might only be possible with the final mod tools.


Yes this is more of an open ended kind of thing. One could brainstorm up different kinds of moons as well. Like ones more metallic which leads to more metal production, one that is crystalline therefore produces more crystal or a hybrid of the 2 and produces both elements but less then a asteroid would.

Maybe model them after some of the major moons of Jupiter in Io, Europa and Callisto. Or even our own moon as one.

But yea just throwing the idea out there.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Also consdier things like some planets are capable of having more moons then others.Like for instance gas giants can carry up to 5 seperate moons (because gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space) versus a terran world that can support only 1-2 moons. That makes fighting for things such as gas giants much more important especially if a gas giant is sandwiched between 2 empires


Actually Saturn alone has 60 moons.. And Jupiter has some 62 moons as well...
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
Actually Saturn alone has 60 moons.. And Jupiter has some 62 moons as well...


I am aware. But a lot of those are like the little asteroids that we already have in Sins. Some are nothing more then giant hunks of debris.

I meant moon in the more classical sense (big sphereical objects) versus the technical definition (anything that revolves around a planet).
Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top
He's referring to the actual "moon" moons of places like Jupiter (Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto) most of which are the size of the planet Mercury (or bigger)

I think it;d be nice to see moons around the planets, and maybe the ability to build special defenses on these moons (such a military base option that;s a combination fighter/bomber hangar and a orbital defense cannon rolled into one.)
Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top
Really the only problem would be finding a way to place them in orbit of a planet. Since all you'd have to do to make a moon is take a planet and give it a moonish texture (Like Uzii's barren world slightly re-worked) and re-scale it. For mines just take those little buildings on the planets (Where the traffic flies too) and put them on the moons surface (Instead of floating) and presto, you have a moon with mining facilities.
Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top
He's referring to the actual "moon" moons of places like Jupiter (Ganymede, Io, Europa and Callisto) most of which are the size of the planet Mercury (or bigger)I think it;d be nice to see moons around the planets, and maybe the ability to build special defenses on these moons (such a military base option that;s a combination fighter/bomber hangar and a orbital defense cannon rolled into one.)


Haven't even thought about that but sounds like a great idea.

You could actually kill 2 birds with one stone with the craptacular planetary defense scheme implemented and lack of moons. That is to say if you make moon base defenses powerful enough (but not overpowered). Would also have built in defenses to most homeworlds if homeworlds come equipped with moons.



Reply #9 from Sins Forums Top
You could use the little buildings on worlds that direct traffic as mines, and use actual mines as a sort of giant base on the moon. So as you build mines those little buildings pop up along the moon, and then you could build a lunar defense base and a mining facility would appear. If possible put on some guns, and give those guns a very large range (Capable of hitting anything near the planet) and so it'd do the collective damage of like 15 normal defense platforms, with maybe 2 squadrons. (It could be pretty expensive, but also it's only one target so easier to kill.) Would deffinently give moons a strategic purpose.
Reply #10 from Sins Forums Top

Orbital Mechanics would be cool to...

Such that everything placed in the gravity well orbited the planet at different rates depending on the distance form the planet.

You would have to time when you wanted to attack, (when most of the defences are on the other side of the planet  ;) ).

Ships would have to be parked outside the gravity well to remain stationary.

On a larger scale, the planets could orbit the star, and you could have reconfigureable phase drive lanes.

i.e. A phase drive lane can only be so long before it reconnects to the next nearest planet. Ships in the lane when it switches could be lost... or make it to the new destination.
Reply #11 from Sins Forums Top
Seems kinda hard to do, but would definently add a new strategic value to the game.
Reply #12 from Sins Forums Top
gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space


The definition of irony.
Reply #13 from Sins Forums Top
(because gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space)

.............................. wtf did you go to school smart guy?





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lmao didnt even see your post uranium. ROFLMAO

Reply #14 from Sins Forums Top
because gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in space

Read: vacuum cleaners in space
I think he's referring to the dip in the 2d representation of the spacetime continuum, which would sort of make sense; since it's so "heavy", it "sucks" smaller planetoids (such as moons) toward it much more easily than terran worlds.
His statement was figurative - I think he would have made it clearer if he had called them vacuum cleaners...
But that analogy is, like all analogies, flawed :P
Cut him a bit of slack!
Reply #15 from Sins Forums Top
because gas giants are nothing more then vacuums in spaceRead: vacuum cleaners in spaceI think he's referring to the dip in the 2d representation of the spacetime continuum, which would sort of make sense; since it's so "heavy", it "sucks" smaller planetoids (such as moons) toward it much more easily than terran worlds.His statement was figurative - I think he would have made it clearer if he had called them vacuum cleaners...But that analogy is, like all analogies, flawed Cut him a bit of slack!


Ya basically what I meant due to their higher gravitation. More mass is "attracted" to larger objects making a gas giant like a vacuum (cleaner).

Because of this phenomena we should be thankful on Earth because Jupiter, Saturn and some of the massive outer planets tend to eat up rogue meteors that would be devestating to Earth.

If someone wants to point out fallacies in my post due to semantics, oh well.
Reply #16 from Sins Forums Top
Ya basically what I meant due to their higher gravitation. More mass is "attracted" to larger objects making a gas giant like a vacuum (cleaner).

Because of this phenomena we should be thankful on Earth because Jupiter, Saturn and some of the massive outer planets tend to eat up rogue meteors that would be devestating to Earth.


This is a good example of why one should try to understand someone before ridiculing them. What he says does make a lot of sense.