In the middle/late game, you wouldn't be still able to build the defense and end the game, but the ships would be already arriving, with no supplies and tools left. The goal would be to build supply rockets and send them to the orbit, so you would buy more time to prepare ...

... (just having read beyond that darned link): So I guess you would essentially lose if you failed to provide the necessary supplies to your orbiting ships? I don't know if I like that in a sandbox-style game, because it can be quite late in the game until you determine that you're actually doomed. ...

My trap worked, now I'm not alone

FrozenOne wrote:Why, just why had you to put that link there. Also, where did my today's afternoon disappear :D

Yeah, this thing cost me most of my day, too.

Why, just why had you to put that link there. Also, where did my today's afternoon disappear

In the middle/late game, you wouldn't be still able to build the defense and end the game, but the ships would be already arriving, with no supplies and tools left. The goal would be to build supply rockets and send them to the orbit, so you would buy more time to prepare ...

This container on trains idea is really good, cause when you can put it on trains, you can put it anywhere (ships, airplanes...). But my picture was a fully automated high-bay racking. Think of inserters running on rails back and forth, putting containers 20 levels (and more) ...

well, i thought that the point of the rocket defense was so that colony ships could land. with colonists the players job would first be create habitation domes and food supply, and following missions could center on an expansion campaign this could lead to development ...

... ** Bridges ** Build Walls/Hills ** Manual Terraforming "by Hand" or simple Tools / Automated Terraforming by drones or other machines * Ships, Water-creatures *Togglable GUI-related: ** Pause if inventory/research action... atm the Pause that happens when a research is over is irritating ...

5 range inserter...for some reason the image that pops into my head is of the cranes that are used to load cargo containers onto ships at a dock...

... for colonisation. Preparation for colonisation could itself have many different flavours - building a bio-dome, building landing pads for colony ships, building housing, an electricity grid, and so on. In role-playing terms, the tutorial could be a sequence of simulated "training" mission ...

... and has an alien species that can breath the hostile air. The players goal "in the campaigns" is to prepare the planet for the colony ships arrival and that includes killing that species and transforming the environment. While making the planet habitable to humans done tribes of aliens ...