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Orbital Rings Rebalanced

Orbital rings cost more than a habitat. They should be equally as useful.

All effects scale with orbital ring tier.
I recommend Expanded Starbases for people wanting to play with stage four orbital rings.
Stage five orbital rings can be found in Gauntlet's Orbital Structures although this mod currently does not support their other megastructures.

• Orbital Infrastructure: +4 districts, +1 building capacity (simultaneous build queue).
  
• Orbital Housing: -10% housing usage, -10% amenities upkeep, -10% pop upkeep.
  
• Orbital Logistics: -10% infrastructure upkeep, +1% planetary build/decision speed per 100 pops.

This requires Anti-Gravity Engineering.

• Skyhook Expansion: -20% infrastructure upkeep, +20% districts, +20% minimum habitability.

Please note orbital infrastructure will provide +5% max districts for having Ceramo-Metal Infrastructure, or 10% with Durasteel Infrastructure.
With Mastery of Nature / Planetscaping, the orbital ring will provide +10% minimum habitability.
Both of these effects scale with orbital ring tier too.

These deposits are generated automatically on colonisation and will require the subterranean colonisation technology to clear. They will exist on habitats because who doesn't want to hollow out asteroids to live in?

• Subterranean Farms: +4 (farming) districts, +1 food and +0.5 consumer goods from farmers.
  
• Subterranean Mines: +4 (mining) districts, +1 minerals and +0.5 alloys from miners.
  
• Subterranean Generators: +4 (generator) districts, +1 energy and +1 trade from technicians.

This requires Colonial Centralisation.

• Subterranean Cities: +20% districts, +20% minimum habitability, -20% housing useage.

Please note the subterranean deposits will provide +5% max districts for having Weather Control Systems, or 10% with Climate Restoration.
With Mastery of Nature / Planetscaping, they also provide +10% minium habitability.
With detox or worldshapers the subterranean deposits will also provide strategic resource output to farmers, miners and technicians.

There are additional specific interactions between colonies with subterranean cities and orbital rings. All effects will scale with orbital ring tier.

• Orbital Infrastructure: +10% bonus workforce.
  
• Orbital Housing: +50% immigration pull.
  
• Orbital Logistics: -10% jobs upkeep.
  
• Subterranean Farms: +1 society research from farmers.
  
• Subterranean Mines: +1 engineering research from miners.
  
• Subterranean Generators: +1 physics research from technicians.

I would very much recommend playing this mod with whatever you can find to add extra zones and/or building slots.

This mod overwrites the max carrying capacity limit of planets to 500000 and adds gaia world terraforming to the detox ascension perk. It should be compatible with everything, but please let me know if there are any issues.