As I made an orbital ring to gain production bonus to my wilderness empire, I must admit that it felt a bit off.
Wilderness doesn't seem to like "artificial" as shown by their -200% habitability on artificial bodies (even ring worlds) but are perfectly fine with the huge metal circle in the sky (I noted that orbital rings don't seem to have an organic equivalent so are big chunks of metal above the planet. They seem to take the avian shipset appearance for me).
And it's not only wilderness. Agrarian Idyll are known to not gain the tech to make full use of the ring and I don't see why a subterranean specie would try to reach the sky.
I think there should be an alternative : layered planet.
As an empire with access to near indestructible building materials, instead of making a huge floating ring, you could probably carve out a part of the planet to create new living layers under the surface with artificial light (that could come from symbiont in the case of wilderness) and huge columns that support de layers above.
This would be allowed for most empires but not be compatible with orbitals as both put a strain on planet integrity and doing both would collapse it.
The advantage would be that it would be easier to defend (not destroyed by fleets) but it would lose the options of making something other than extra habitations and to house defense platforms. It would have an energy upkeep as artificial light must be added. It would be accessed by a button at the same position as orbitals on the planet viewer.
Wilderness doesn't seem to like "artificial" as shown by their -200% habitability on artificial bodies (even ring worlds) but are perfectly fine with the huge metal circle in the sky (I noted that orbital rings don't seem to have an organic equivalent so are big chunks of metal above the planet. They seem to take the avian shipset appearance for me).
And it's not only wilderness. Agrarian Idyll are known to not gain the tech to make full use of the ring and I don't see why a subterranean specie would try to reach the sky.
I think there should be an alternative : layered planet.
As an empire with access to near indestructible building materials, instead of making a huge floating ring, you could probably carve out a part of the planet to create new living layers under the surface with artificial light (that could come from symbiont in the case of wilderness) and huge columns that support de layers above.
This would be allowed for most empires but not be compatible with orbitals as both put a strain on planet integrity and doing both would collapse it.
The advantage would be that it would be easier to defend (not destroyed by fleets) but it would lose the options of making something other than extra habitations and to house defense platforms. It would have an energy upkeep as artificial light must be added. It would be accessed by a button at the same position as orbitals on the planet viewer.
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