<h2>My meaning about space exploration</h2>
<h3>orbitals in civ3</h3>
I think orbitals must be units and not improvements.
Like some others have also said: There must be differend layers.
<h4>The 3 layers</h4>
<ul>[*]ground and sea units[*]air units[*]orbitals[/list]Every layer must have its own zones of control. One area may have tree civilizations on it
An example area:
layer 1: a mongol tank
layer 2: 3 greek copters
layer 2: a german com sat
When you have build an orbital then you can launch it too a place in layer 3 in a distance of 10.
<h4>types of orbitals:</h4>
<ul>[*]Orbitals that can't be moved after launch(labs, solar enery powerstadions, ...).[*]Orbitals that can be normal moved after launch and don't need to refuel
(defens sats, laser sats,...)[*]High altitude fighters: They must return to base to refuel.
(To atack orbitals, To bomb ground units,...)[/list]Maybe there can be also ground units that can shut down orbitals.
<h4>some ideas for new orbitals</h4>
<ul>[*]Pilange Orbital: Destroys every terain improvement in a distance of 1 when you press p.[*]City Bomber Orbital: You can bomb the improvemens of an enemy city.[*]Ground Bomber Orbital: Can bombs enemy units when he is above them.[*]Solar energy plant: -1 maintaince for every building in the home city of this unit(because the enery is free).
Every city can only have one Solor enery plant[*]Paradrop orbital: can stock units and drop them.[*]Hotel orbital: +3 credit for the home city. You can only build a limited number of Hotel orbitals in every city. [*]Carier orbital: can stock space fighter units.[/list]<h3>Space colonies in civ3:</h3>
I think that the minning work in space will be done by robots.
There must only be a few humans to control and program the robots.
This means:
The population of a space colony may not exceed 2.
Only on Mars after the building of the terraform secret project. May the size be 4
(for every civilization).
Robotic workers(supply crawlers) will do the minning work.
Normal will a space colony only produce minerals(It needs food from earth cities).
But after the building of the teraform secret project can mars colonies produce some food.
And after the building of the resources market can you sell minerals for money.
<h3> The transport of units and setlers to a planet or moon</h3>
The transport type will depends on you technological progress. How better your technology how
better units you can build too launch units to space.
<ul>[*]Olie rocket: Very slow, can only carry one unit, can only goes to the moon.[*]Nucliar fussion rocket: Faster can carry 4 units. Can goes to the whole solar system.[*]Teleport ship: Can goes to every place in the solar system in 0 turns. Can carry 8 units.[*]Interstellair teleport ship: Very costly. When you launch one to AC then the game ends[/list]This units have just like orbitals a launch option. You can choose about a list of destinations
after you have pressed the launch button.
Excuse me for my bad English its my third language.
I see you at Orion (:
<font size=1 color=444444>[This message has been edited by Kris Huysmans (edited June 11, 1999).]</font>
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