Dyson Sphere for SoaSE Celestial Bodies Mod

in work

Published on March 30, 2009 By TohKlidan In Sins of a Solar Empire

During a discussion about stars and planets , Soland came up with the idea of a Dyson Sphere . Also a few mods out there containing colonizable suns, which are in some way dyson swarms, and also it works only with companion suns not with the star entities.

So I tried to find a new way, that looks cool and makes sense in the game.

So here the first screens that show you the sphere untextured and only the rough modelling work is done:

Ingame pictures will follow...

Comments (Page 2)

TohKlidan

on Apr 01, 2009

Why not make the research for these spheres a level 6 in the same category as the rest of the planet research?

I am not sure what the best way is, cause both the "dyson sphere" and "the Citadel" are very special planets and I will use them only in special scenario maps. Which means I won't add them to any random planet list in the galaxydef.

Will the sphere have the usual tactical slots, or just the SB's?

Maybe a few but not that many as a normal planet, cause of the increased health.

I like the idea of being able to upgrade the spheres like star bases. They can be upgraded totaly to a military purpose, or cut a few of those abilities and be strong in trade or repair or something else.

Unfortunately the Sphere is not upgradeable like a starbase, it is still a planet and I was talking about the planetary upgrade, like population, tactical, civilian, infrastucture....

But the costs for upgrading can be set for each planet in its entity file, so i am able to increase them.

sawakaki

on Apr 01, 2009

Are these going to be custom, player made maps?

Thanks for answering all my questions. I can't think of anything else, so I guess I'll sit back and wait for the mod! I'm looking forward to it.

TohKlidan

on Apr 01, 2009

Are these going to be custom, player made maps?

yes, i'll make one or maybe more by myself. but everyone who downloads the mod can make own maps with the Galaxy Forge Tool.

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