Dafedz hinted that such a thing could be in for the Moons, so why not Planets?

It would make life easier, anyway...

We could have 3 buttons. (Of course, it would be five if you were a real control freak, but you get the picture)

Terraform Moons
Terraform Planet
Terraform System

A terraform system button would certainly be useful - I usually hover in orbit terraforming all planets (unless I need to grab the system fast) so I don't waste resources on unneccesary colony ships later on... But of course when there's lots going on you can easily forget about a system and leave your colony ship there doing nothing!

And it's better for it to do nothing over a terraformed system, rather than a ... How do we call not-terraformed planets anyway? lol, normal, I guess.

In a galaxy with as many systems as BotF2 this system is essential. You should be able to get a nice, non-starving, moderate-industry colony without having to check up on it every 2 or 3 turns.
The main thing there is the micromanagement (thanks for explaining, Matress , but the "All Terraform" order is a first step in releaving the player of small, tedious jobs.

good seems like everybody is on board with the terafform all and colonize. Ill shove any furtehr micromanagement suggestions on the micromanagement thread.

As i've posted before, they had another saying;



An extra button would keep the control freaks happy as well.

(Said in the best Mr. Burns voice, while steepeling my fingers together)

Exxcellent.

BTW, whos capt D?

Well there is a sciencey way that you could attach the turbines to something solid - the pressure at centre of the Gas gaints may be so great that the Gas at the very centre is actually solid.

No one knows if this is true yet, but it would account for the fact that Jupiter has a magnetic field about 10,000 times stronger than that of the Earth's - there has to be something solid (And probably metal) at it's centre to make such a huge field.

From what I remember from college astronomy, gas gaints have a core of hydrogen 'slush' not quite solid, but not quite liquid. And thats only at the core. Theres nothing solid anywhere in the atmosphere of a gas gaint.

But that's from what we know today - we're talking about technology from 400 years into the future! (Almost) Anything is possible!

C).

Forget gas giants for energy altogether.

Advanced Turbines on barren or desert planets is enough.

A). 'Cause there are two different aspects. One is game, and the other one is physics. As long as this is Star Trek, it doesn't matter for me from a technical point of view today, since it makes those gas giants somewhat valueable, which is really necesarry, if we would like to not piss of any player, if he scans a system and sees there are *again* only gas giants