Space stations and Dyson spheres

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Hi all old suggestions from GC3 days. Loving the game so far. Could we possibly get a end of the station tech tree that adds a colony linking space station that if you build between your military, economic, and cultural stations. I would like to link them to the shipyard as well. End of game you can build a Dyson sphere I would make it so that four sides of your hex are military,economic, and cultural. Then the other four of the hex are shipyards and colonists. Colonist stations should be fragile, and the hardest to build. I would make a ship port module for the other 3 sides that ships can easily pass into the system and also fragile.

And I remember the old argument of balance! I think that making the colony and port stations the weak point could balance this out. Like a partial sphere is a serious drain on your output. But a complete one you are massive boost.

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Reply #1 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

Superstructures would be super cool to have but I don't think that's in our plans for the initial version of the game.

Down the line though things like dysonh spheres, or swarms, ringworlds etc. are definitely things I'd like to see us do.

Reply #2 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

I think people underestimate just how big those things are.  Ringworld is something like 3 million earths in surface area and a dyson sphere is much larger. Given that a big "galaxy" in this only has a few hundred worlds, it's just completely on a different scale by several factors.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv4 Forums Top

trancejeremy1 - I agree that these concepts don't make much sense in a 4X game since they basically negate a civilizations need to explore for new habitable worlds, but as long as there were only 1 per map, the thrill of discovery would be pretty neat.