Building Megastructures.

[Gysi]

Ok, this is a freebie for you now. I'm advising you to allow players to build Dyson Spheres or Ringworlds around certain star systems. Because it gets boring after having a lot of money and power when reaching lvl 30-40. Imagine how many structures like this the players from alpha could build with all of that money they accumulated over time.

and the dyson sphere requirements to be ordered from the star's type. Which raises all the solar output of all the astros within a star system, a bonus of +5, or +10 if built. no matter which astro(maybe we can discard those from position 4 or 5, since they're far from the sun).

Ok it's not necesarily to build the dyson sphere, a real enclosed sphere around a star, it can also be a swarm(DSw), depending on technology. Immo, an artificial gravity tech level of 5 would be enough to build a swarm and armor level 35 to build a whole 1 KM thick encapsulating sphere. maybe even more artificial grav tech.

death stars are simply not enough for the immensity the game's map provided. So why waste resources after level 30 on usual boring stuff. When you could have even ringworlds available to build.

And also make them to be capable of getting built by more players, like a guild project or something, like they did in darkorbit with the asteroid bases per clans. You could make something similar there too. You don't just give one click to build a dyson sphere, you need more components x/10 or y/5 and each one of them costs like 100 hours to build and x credits. And any guild mate can contribute, similar to jumpgates.

So imagine the blob fleet within such a star system.. And after it's done, you might change the view of the star system on the map. or mark it with an icon that it has a megastructure built.

Another rule is that once it has a megastructure it can't build another, unless it's demolished. Ah and also it's decided that certain dyson sphere types can be used as military bases, giving defense bonuses. like mega fortresses.

This will make the game less boring for sure. And the dyson sphere can be modified demolished or stolen by another player/guild too. or eventually the ringworld, ringworld may have upgrades like giant solar panels to giving a bonus to first 2-3 astros within the SSem. or can give a fertility bonus since it has a lot of space, terrain bonus. sounds good no?

if the DS or ringworld RW gets demolsihed, it will give a huge amount of debris for sure.

and talks like this can go on.. can even install a massive ray on one of them for different purposes..