Good concept art for space colonies?

[Kyriakos]

I really like changing the brown ground to metallic. I utterly believe this is a site for mining ultravaluable Kyriakite.

If the game is made, I will actually use "Kyriakite" as a mineral ^_^

@hobbsyoyo , would the defense installations just look like ship gun turrets, or something different? (anti-spacecraft guns)

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Gun turrets and missile silos (like below) would be fine.

 

[Kyriakos]

 

[r16]

a square blob on the ground whould make you look cheap . Gun turrets better .

edit: This before ı run a proxy service to see the picture . ı see a fire control radar but no gun barrels ?

 

[Kyriakos]

a square blob on the ground whould make you look cheap .

It is a balkan asteroid colony.

 

[Kyriakos]

Wip of a first anti-spacecraft gun turret:

What sort of radar would this need? For its size, consider that the brown metallic rectangles in the base are corridors with a height of approximately 2,5 meters (and equal width). So it is a pretty big turret...

 

[hobbsyoyo]

I thought the spinning dish was the radar? A radar dish would spin like that, a communications dish would not - at least not so fast. Honestly the spinning dish works pretty good for a radar.

 

[Kyriakos]

I thought the spinning dish was the radar? A radar dish would spin like that, a communications dish would not - at least not so fast. Honestly the spinning dish works pretty good for a radar.

Yes, I am just rather clueless as to radars and such. So the one central radar would be enough and separate installations wouldn't be needed?

Maybe the turret should be higher above the ground too, so that it can turn 360 degrees.

 

[Michkov]

Yes, I am just rather clueless as to radars and such. So the one central radar would be enough and separate installations wouldn't be needed?

Maybe the turret should be higher above the ground too, so that it can turn 360 degrees.

Stick it perpendicular on the asteroid, that should take care off that. You'll need another one for the opposing hemisphere too.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

Yes, I am just rather clueless as to radars and such. So the one central radar would be enough and separate installations wouldn't be needed?

Maybe the turret should be higher above the ground too, so that it can turn 360 degrees.

I agree with @Michkov on the turret.

The dish you have is good for a radar as it's spinning but as with the turret, you'd want one on the other side of the asteroid for full coverage as the asteroid itself will block signals being radiated into it.

A communications dish would be mostly non-moving. It would be locking onto a target to communicate and only moving so as to counteract the rotation of the asteroid which may take it through a revolution every other hour or so. But it wouldn't be spinning around as fast the one on your model - that's how a radar sweeps as it has to continuously rotate to refresh the radar data.

 

[hobbsyoyo]

There are also flat-panel style radars which look like kind of like truncated pyramids with panels on their side.

You have to have several of these for full coverage. Typical installations like this in the US only face to the North as that's the direction ICBM's would come from.

 

[Kyriakos]

There are also flat-panel style radars which look like kind of like truncated pyramids with panels on their side.

You have to have several of these for full coverage. Typical installations like this in the US only face to the North as that's the direction ICBM's would come from.

When you and Mitchkov say "other hemisphere", do you mean a radar upside down,based on the bottom of the asteroid?

Would radars on the sides (on this size - roughly one kilometer in the largest perimeter?) be needed?

 

[hobbsyoyo]

When you and Mitchkov say "other hemisphere", do you mean a radar upside down,based on the bottom of the asteroid?

Yes.

Would radars on the sides (on this size - roughly one kilometer in the largest perimeter?) be needed?

The dish you've got is fine. A communications dish could be either larger or smaller, depending on the minutiae of the specific communications architecture and data link. So go with whatever you like on that.

 

[r16]

that turret looks like a naval one from 1930s-40s / despite ı have the sense that they really depend on whether "mashes" or "meshes" are available or not . Perhaps you could look for RAM , Rolling Airframe Missile or the Phalanx CIWS itself

while ı would agree that it would be a flat one as radar due modernity in a real application , but ı would think the spinning dish is good , will be better if available in a larger scale and perhaps slower in rotation speed . If the game allows it , maybe you could have a "satellite" above and the hints of one under the satellite with weapons and radars mounted on it , which you can move around according to needs , too .

it's like suggestion , gun barrels better than buried missile tubes , and spinning dish then flat radar . Leading the way to the pointless rant , which hopefully you won't find to be offensive . Supposedly Athens is really agitated after the latest map of the "Mavi Vatan" which can be like national homeland on the sea , a blue belt that covers anything down from Midilli to just about close to the Eastern tip of Crete . We are neighbours , we have all the right to fight one of these days , but it's meant as trolling so that the Greek "attacks" can convince poor losers to accept Army of Petrol as their own . Or might even lead to deletion of smaller , much smaller smallprint through anger at "both" sides . It's an American trick , will lead to nothing ; if you accidentally defeat Army of Petrol , what use will it be in a Turkish Civil War ?

 

[r16]

and as Civ III forums are even lonelier , is it possible to have a resource that covers 9 tiles and would still show up when there are units on it ? Might even make the units invisible .

 

[Kyriakos]

and as Civ III forums are even lonelier , is it possible to have a resource that covers 9 tiles and would still show up when there are units on it ? Might even make the units invisible .

The real question is if you actually want a mavi vatan resource. A red apple-tree resource in Konya would just be one tile

 

[r16]

my attempts in 2017 used to disappear whenever some unit showed up . As for the political thing what happened to Greek Courtesy ? They have just conquered 40 000 square kilometers of sea that merely prevents Cypriots and Israelis have Americans or Brits or Norwegians to construct a pipeline under the sea . You people did everything you could to bring New Turkey to power so that they would let you steal Arabian hydrocarbons , why don't just give them their share ?

and yes , no anwers in Civ III thread either ...