Orbital Defense
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Empiremaker
Human Fish
It doesn't matter the city that satellites are built in. The benefits are faction-wide. They can also destroy enemy satellites.
Empiremaker
Human Fish
There are 4 types of satellites
Sky Hydroponics Labs (+1 nutrient, up to city size, halved if there is no Areospace Complex), available with Orbital Spaceflight
Nessus Mining Station (+1 mineral, up to city size, halved if there is no Areospace Complex), available with Self-Aware Colonies.
I forgot the name of the energy one (+1 energy, up to city size, halved if there is no Areospace Complex), available with Advanced Spaceflight
Orbital Defense Pod, 50% chance of destroying a PB, but if it fails, then to destroy the PB, you must sacrifice the pod. They also have a 50% chance of destroying another satellite, but if the pod fails, then it is destroyed.
Sky Hydroponics Labs (+1 nutrient, up to city size, halved if there is no Areospace Complex), available with Orbital Spaceflight
Nessus Mining Station (+1 mineral, up to city size, halved if there is no Areospace Complex), available with Self-Aware Colonies.
I forgot the name of the energy one (+1 energy, up to city size, halved if there is no Areospace Complex), available with Advanced Spaceflight
Orbital Defense Pod, 50% chance of destroying a PB, but if it fails, then to destroy the PB, you must sacrifice the pod. They also have a 50% chance of destroying another satellite, but if the pod fails, then it is destroyed.
Stylesrj
Tabitha SEAL
Orbital Power Transmitter, that's what it's called.
So when a Orbital Defence Pod (ODP) fails to intercept a PB, do you get a pop-up window saying "Would you like to sacrifice the satellite to destroy Planet Buster?" or something or is it automatic?
In the game I'm playing now (as Peacekeepers) I can build the Sky Hydroponics Lab, but the other satellites (Mining, Power and Defense) are missing from my queue. What technology am I missing in order to build those others (particularly defense)? Gaians and Morganites already have PBs (or so they brag) and Miriam and Yang are furiously working on their own. I have 2 PBs ready and 2 more in production but would rather not use a MAD defense strategy as I don't feel ready to take on all the other factions at once just yet. So far I've been successful using conventional missiles to bombard those enemy cities that house their PBs but they just start building new ones and I'm starting to run low.
Could someone please explain to me how these work? I have seen absolutely no difference, ever. I would build about 10 of each, and even my biggest cities would have absolutely no change. Am I misreading the description?
vyeh
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It is easier to see the effects on the smallest cities. If you've built 10 of each and the small cities do NOT have Aerospace Complex or you do not have the Cloudbase Academy, then each city will have 5 more nutrients, minerals and energy than can be accounted by adding the amount harvested from the squares being worked (including the base square) and the squares crawled.
That makes so much sense!!! All this time, I saw "+1 Nutrient in ALL BASES, some restrictions apply", and I always imagined all of it would be in the base square.
