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My suggestions to you:

1. Try to get some art involved - nothing inspires people better than a nice picture or vision of what this could look like.

My suggestions to you:

1. Try to get some art involved - nothing inspires people better than a nice picture or vision of what this could look like.
2. Don't over complicate or over-specify your idea - CCP have plenty of game designers to work on the minute detail
3. Keep expanding the idea - You've possibly only scratched the surface of what you could do with a PI minigame

Comments etc:
- Would spaceships be able to land, Elite-style?
- Warp-in points for planets would have to be closer. Currently you warp in at a few hundred thousand k above the atmosphere, and that's a heck of a way to travel in a BS.
- As previously mentioned, Han Solo-style smuggling would be possible.
- Would additional defensive systems be able to be fitted to an arcology/biodome/city-saucer/perimeter wall in a manner similar to ship fitting?
- Would the entire underlying infrastructure of a city be able to be based on ship fitting? I see this as slots for 'scraper complexes, entire new districts etc, with extra slots being added by current-PI-style constructions.

Anyway hope this happens.

Gas: (+3% default rate)
12% population growth rate per downtime
9% death rate per down time

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Planetary gun/missile emplacement (2500 power, 1250 CPU, 1000 Employees, 2000 isk per hour operational cost + ammo costs)
(Places guns/missiles on planet surface in City that can fire from under City shield or without shield, similar to the stargate/POS gun setup) Damages non friendly (can be set via standings) capital ships only in orbit around the planet, firing on neutral Capitals by default (That have Planetary aggression timers) at similar rates to the stargate/station guns, but should pack a bit more punch since they are firing on capital ships, so the damage should be so much that a single dread without logistics will be unable to tank the DPS and will have to warp out or risk being lost to planetary fire. Sub capital ships will not be shot at by planet side guns, since they will be too small to lock onto. Likewise, sub capitals and carriers will not be able to engage structures or segments. Any Carrier that is remote repping Dreadnoughts or Titans with PATs will also receive a planetary aggression timer.

i'm not sure this should be in the positive growth rate section

living in a gas giant would be extremely taxing on human physiology... from constant storms, the high gravity, high radiation, and insane pressures would make it hard for a population to growth at all.

however on barren/ice worlds it would be much easier for a population to grow due to the fact huge biospheres & underground facilities could be built to shield the citizens from radiation. Also the gravity and pressure on these worlds would be much more tolerable.

Moons should also be considered for population. Especially moons around gas giants.

but aside from that I like your idea alot

Dreadnoughts could have a Planetary Attack drone bay!! each drone "capsule" are trowed and when it reaches the ground, opens and some drones emerge from it! also carriers and titans could deploy large attack turrets!! and small ships could deploy soldier capsules that allow Dust players to enter combat from different spots... A force recon or some new type of ship could deploy Covert ops dust commandos capsules... this would be awesome!!! Allot of possibilities!!!!!

I was thinking of Bespin (Star Wars) when I was placing the Planets into those groups. Somehow I picture a floating Gas giant installation to be more habitable than some frozen Hoth hellhole. In Bespin you could actually sit on a bench outside and watch the sun go down. Hoth is a different story.

But I'm open to swapping those figures around if we could justify it with a valid enough point.

There's enough tech in EvE to justify the Bespin style floating cities as is, it may just make some sort of "contruction preimium" cost modification necessary. Building on a temperate world (even if CCPs idea of "temperate" is... questionable) would be fairly easy (we do it now after all). Building on a Lava, Plasma, or Gas giant should probably cost more due to the extra protections needed to maintain the populace (though this may have already been sort of figured in using your earlier growth and production modifiers).

Another possible source to look at for some inspiration might be some of the material from Transhuman Space for GURPS, or for another source available (legitmately free) online would be Eclipse Phase which has some of its material available under the creative commons license. Both are insanely well written and detailed if you love the trans/post humanism side of things, which we pod pilots are pretty safely a part of even without the more extreme "what is human?" modifications sometimes explored in the memes. I've never played either but own physical copies of everything ever written for both :P

EDIT: as for Dusties arriving by capsule from a carrier, I have two things to say:
1) I ain't shaving my head to ferry them around, and
2) "Do you apes wanna live forever!?"

If this topic can make 3 pages of positive responses and/or another 30 odd likes... I will be posting it over in the Assembly Hall with some additions.

Then spam every PI alliance in Eve hoping to garner enough support to push it to the top of the next CSM refocus list.

The idea keeps the simplicity you currently use, but adds much more depth to those wanting more from planets (as was advertised with the original launch of Tyrannis).

Also, technically, how do customs offices get into wormhole space? They shouldn't exist either...

But I don't see why population centers couldn't develop in wspace.

but foremost attract a new type of player, no more the pod pilot but the GÇ£colonistGÇ¥.

The colonizers have been here since Tyranis.

Some of us even longer, setting up hi-sec POS colonies.

Please tell me you didn't change it much since the old forums, I don't want to read through this all agian.

I supported old version, so gonna support this one.

So time to build star-gates? for the planetary migration!