... - Solvents - Paint? - PVC - Resins - Polyethylene -> Packaging - Propylene glycol -> Polyester - fibers Oil residuals - Diesel fuel - Fuel for ships?

... on the planet; like a receiving end to a portal already built on earth for sending over colonists? It would eliminate the need to have colony ships in orbit and explain the lack of orbital assistance. After the untimely crash, the player would be the only living person for light-years in all ...

... has implications for the game elements that should be there (some of which are not there yet). When you colonize a planet and send out pioneering ships, these ships should be loaded with things that are needed for making the planet habitable or at least machines to make all these products on the ...

ssilk wrote:

andzoak wrote:

n9103 wrote:People from colony ship began to understand that is real chance to colonize the planet.

Your quote editing needs some adjustment, since I sure didn't say that.

People from colony ship began to understand that is real chance to colonize the planet. Two questions: why would you want to go into a colony ship without knowing, what will await you. You can send probes out there, to investigate the system, you have a millions of systems within the next 1000 ligh...

Another game with Orbital end game goals is the Outpost Series. OP2 in particular has a decently flexible launching system, including some offensive payloads. But like 2140, it's also an RTS. As for current system, if survival isn't a good motivator for you, then perhaps you should try some non-cree...

Earth 2140 feature supply to orbit as main goal of the game with ultimate goal to leave planet, it nice game to view how it was implemented. but... it will be much more fun to launch supply in form of rockets (sometimes with nuclear payload) to creepers and other types of enemy units. also somethin...

Considering you're sticking to a problem of not even being able to change interplanetary orbits, you shouldn't even consider this approach as viable and not creating planet-sized plot holes. Practically that problem isn't necessary. They can travell accross whole solar system but there is only one ...

kovarex wrote:This is nice idea, I will read the book.

I recommend also to hear the same named album from Mike Oldfield while reading. It's based on the book.

Not that I think the music would fit into factorio; the game has a completely different atmosphere!

I don't understand how does frozen-water-shields works. Is it some like ablative plates on space shuttles? About, but much bigger. They are hexagonal plates of destillated, frozen water, about 20 meters in radius and 2 m in thickness. In space, the plates is mounted to the other plates, think steel...

Fuell tanks, thermonuclear reactor, engine (or whatever) was lost due to creeper attack ;p Don't quit your day job. I like that idea. I don't understand how does frozen-water-shields works. Is it some like ablative plates on space shuttles? Something like, but not really. The point of the ice is th...

... they fire rockets at us and the colony ship.The colony ship has no other defense as its shields and must flee. When fleeing, the remaining scout ships was used to defend the colony ship. They fleed at the Lagrange point L1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point) because they want to to ...

This is nice idea, I will read the book.

Good Book, Great Author. As for propulsion, our only viable techniques for interstellar travel that has any urgency (meaning solar sail/ion drives aren't suitable, as they are incredibly slow to accelerate) will be nuclear powered. Whether it will be a Conventional or a Fusion-based approach is left...

... they fire rockets at us and the colony ship. The colony ship has no other defense as its shields and must flee. When fleeing, the remaining scout ships was used to defend the colony ship. They fleed at the Lagrange point L1 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lagrange_point) because they want to to ...

If You want to add a drop of fuel to colony ship then you need a bucket of fuel to transport it. So mass of the ship was minimized and it has only fuell to fulfill a mission. Earth is overpopulated - there is no resources to make any colony ship able to travel beetwen planets of other solar systems...

If You want to add a drop of fuel to colony ship then you need a bucket of fuel to transport it. So mass of the ship was minimized and it has only fuell to fulfill a mission. Earth is overpopulated - there is no resources to make any colony ship able to travel beetwen planets of other solar systems.

I avoided picking at the idea the first time I read it, but since someone else started the flow, I'll go and point out a big flaw as well. If they made the trip to another star system, I can't believe that they wouldn't have the fuel to change orbit from the first to the 2nd planet. If they didn't h...

If scout ship could be bring down from orbit of creeper planet then other ship can be bring down too. Colony ship has enough time to estimate that orbit of other planet is safer. Ship has fuel only to travel in orbit of planet in that solar system. When ship was starting then nobody knows that on th...

The only thing I don't understand is why the colony ship is at another planet.
Another reason to bring something into space is the loss of gravity - you can for example smelt completely different alloys.
The rest makes much sense. +1