Mixed species planets & facillity bonus

Your population is a conglomeration of your subjects. They should follow your orders regardless, even if that order is scrapping. Otherwise, they jeopardize the empire, and should probably be executed anyway!

To your second point, think about it for a moment. You have a colony of 400 million Hydrogen breathers and 100 million Oxygen breathers on a Hydrogen planet. If there wasn't a dome, the Hydrogen breathers would be going around your city doing all their important construction, and would make fun of the poor 100 million Oxygen breathers gasping for air.

That's not nice.

First of all, I kind of assumed you would get that the oxygen breathers gasping for air would die. The hydrogen breathers making fun of the oxygen breathers was just an added side issue.

But anyway, to your issue that hydrogen breathers can go outside, there's two problems with that.

First of all, remember that the domed colony is creating the maximum amount of space available for construction in spite of the dome. The dome doesn't just pick an island in a giant planet and stay there. It's trying to encompass the entire planet. That requires a huge amount of space in itself just to keep the diverse atmosphere supplies going for everyone. So there's not enough room for the people who can breathe to go outside.

Maybe with 3 different level... Domed, Smi-Domed and Undomed planet. The fisrt where no one can breathe the atmosphere, the second where not all the people can breathe the atmosphere and the third where all can breathe. So, to make an example:

Huge Planet domed: 5.000 kt for facilities,
Huge Planet Semi-domed: 15.000
Huge Planet Undomed: 25.000

BUT

for make this change, the game should control and compute for all race in a planet, also making multi abilities for different people avalaible. To make an example:

if you race has +20% build rate, and the new race coming on your planet has instead +5% mining ability, you can have both ability on that planet... maybe at a percent value... you race is 80% of the entire planet population, you can construct at +20%*80%=+16% rate, and you gather minerals on that planet at +5%*20%=+1%.

So it will be more interesting, more population oriented, but also more complex... and it will be interesting if you can choose which population will be your crew in each ship/base/fighters... but, it will be MORE about micromanagement, and governig a very large empire will be nearly impossible...

And at least, I think that this sort of thing will not be implemented in SEV, but it's only my idea.

The Breathers of course will be outside. The non-breathers will be inside. That should be obvious. The planet is a maze of domes and tunnels. Cities inside domes and cities outside domes.

I, also, feel that the "domed" planet rule should be changed though. Before, I've stated this in the wish list thread:

-do away with limitations on amount of facilities. Only have the non-breathers of a planet domed incurring a penalty to production, research, etc. Still keep the term "Domed" for the games tradition sake: example: Thus it could read: "10% Domed incurring a 5% penalty to all types of planetary production." This means that any Domed population would work at 50% capacity while the Undomed Breathers work at 100%.
The non-breathers left on a planet will have a higher emigration rate to a breathable planet.

-Wade

@ Lastdreamer: aquired population take on your race/empire traits and lose their own aside from the Breathing.

The three different levels still leaves this problem: A huge planet with 100M Breathers gets suddenly entirely domed because only 1M Non-Breathers are added.

Obliwobly's comment of just a higher maintenance cost for mixed Breathers planets is interesting.

-an increasingly higher maintenance cost of facilities for the amount of Non-Breathers on a planet. Perhaps a 1% higher cost for every 100M Non-Breathers. That would figure well. No limitation on amount of facilities or Breather/Non-Breather percentages to think about.

-Wade

This is merely a question of how you write the PlanetSizes.txt - if you really don't like the idea of Domes taking up that much space, just edit that file so domed planets still give you almost as much population and/or facility and/or cargo space as undomed planets.

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Of course, this point doesn't touch your problem. This is solely to reinforce my own point - we have different objectives/views in the first place.

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Some facilities works regardless population (storage, cargo, supply, atmosphere modifier, value&climate plants, bonus providers). Allowing to build more facilities would mean that these facilities would be build there (where normaly you are lucky to have one supply depot there).

But very well, you want to stay on topic. I'll fold here.

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Okay, so this is what I added to the Wish List and emaild to :
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-Do away with limitations on amount of facilities.
*Just an increasingly higher maintenance cost of facilities for the amount of Non-Breathers on a planet. Perhaps 1% higher cost for every 100M Non-Breathers. That would figure well. Keep the term "Domed" for the games tradition sake. No limitation on amount of facilities or Breather/Non-Breather percentages to think about.
The non-breathers left on a planet will have a higher emigration rate to a breathable planet

This problem would be gone: A huge planet with 100M Breathers gets suddenly entirely domed because only 1M Non-Breathers are added.

Mostly, of course, the Breathers are outside and the non-breathers are inside. That should be obvious. The planet is a maze of domes and tunnels. Cities inside domes and cities outside domes. There are special adjustments made for Non-Breathers in Breather air such as: small domed areas, buildings, and rooms; repirators and portable air tanks; sealed/"domed" vehicles; etcetera. All of this accounts for the higher maintenace cost.

-Wade