gas giant blue prints

[Azythromycin]

apparently you cannot create a blue print for gas giant planets...

[Kyrros]

Well, given that you can only place one kind of building at only one single latitude... it does, um... limit ones options. Placing the max 40 on a giant is a fairly trivial process, and other than for maximizing density, the actual placement doesn't really matter, as far as production/transport goes.

[Azythromycin]

certainly would be nice to just 1 and done though aka set one blue print and start flying to place em

[kris44dad]

Originally posted by Azythromycin:

certainly would be nice to just 1 and done though aka set one blue print and start flying to place em

Given the limited options, a way to say, "just place X number. Go." would also do.

[josmith7]

Originally posted by Kyrros:

Well, given that you can only place one kind of building at only one single latitude... it does, um... limit ones options. Placing the max 40 on a giant is a fairly trivial process, and other than for maximizing density, the actual placement doesn't really matter, as far as production/transport goes.

:sphere:

Fairly trivial -- but you do only get 40 if you place them all at the tightest spacing; and about half the time placing them I'll mis-click on one or two out of those, and it'll initially place 1 square too far. It's not hard to notice and correct; but placing them isn't an enjoyable task either.

It's a bit tedious to fly around the gas giant clicking 40 times at just the right timing. Being able to drop a blueprint (or just say I want 40 collectors placed) would remove some of that tedium. (Though you'd still have to fly around the planet to get your construction drones into range -- so it doesn't completely remove it)

[mreed2]

Originally posted by josmith7:

Originally posted by Kyrros:

Well, given that you can only place one kind of building at only one single latitude... it does, um... limit ones options. Placing the max 40 on a giant is a fairly trivial process, and other than for maximizing density, the actual placement doesn't really matter, as far as production/transport goes.

:sphere:

Fairly trivial -- but you do only get 40 if you place them all at the tightest spacing; and about half the time placing them I'll mis-click on one or two out of those, and it'll initially place 1 square too far. It's not hard to notice and correct; but placing them isn't an enjoyable task either.

It's a bit tedious to fly around the gas giant clicking 40 times at just the right timing. Being able to drop a blueprint (or just say I want 40 collectors placed) would remove some of that tedium. (Though you'd still have to fly around the planet to get your construction drones into range -- so it doesn't completely remove it)

Of course, if you did have a blueprint for gas giants the result of rapidly traversing the planet would be that you end up losing all of your construction drones. It takes forever for a drone to build a single orbital collector (because it has to fly all the way up to the top, then all the way back down) that I find myself having to stop to wait for the drone to finish the construction and start on the way back or it ends up falling permanently behind.

Before pushing for a blueprint for gas giants, I'd want to see a change where construction drones can remain in the same plane as the mech throughout the construction process. This would speed the process up immensely.

[aphfid]

Originally posted by josmith7:

Originally posted by Kyrros:

Well, given that you can only place one kind of building at only one single latitude... it does, um... limit ones options. Placing the max 40 on a giant is a fairly trivial process, and other than for maximizing density, the actual placement doesn't really matter, as far as production/transport goes.

:sphere:

Fairly trivial -- but you do only get 40 if you place them all at the tightest spacing; and about half the time placing them I'll mis-click on one or two out of those, and it'll initially place 1 square too far. It's not hard to notice and correct; but placing them isn't an enjoyable task either.

It's a bit tedious to fly around the gas giant clicking 40 times at just the right timing. Being able to drop a blueprint (or just say I want 40 collectors placed) would remove some of that tedium. (Though you'd still have to fly around the planet to get your construction drones into range -- so it doesn't completely remove it)

+1

[aphfid]

Originally posted by mreed2:

Before pushing for a blueprint for gas giants, I'd want to see a change where construction drones can remain in the same plane as the mech throughout the construction process. This would speed the process up immensely.

lol yes, something like a dog whistle to call our drones to stay within range. This would also be useful for when I place a blueprint on the opposite side of a planet and want to lay towers from my current point to where the blueprint is.