Federation Particle Fountain

posted on June 5th, 2009, 7:27 am

I think it would be interesting to add a little more diversity to the way the different races harvest resources.
So I would like to suggest the Federation Particle Fountain.
Particle Fountain Wiki

It's canon, and it was meant to be ready two years after the TNG episode that featured it.
That places it easily within FleetOps time slot.
Instead of building freighters and resource docks, you just build a PF for each moon.
Maybe it should orbit the moon like the mining station orbited planets in stock A2?

posted on June 5th, 2009, 7:32 am

I thought that the FO dev team was going to look into things like this but it would be a while.

posted on June 5th, 2009, 12:58 pm

What if that was used to harvest supplies for the Feds?

posted on June 5th, 2009, 1:18 pm

That would be a cool way for the feds to harvest 

posted on June 5th, 2009, 1:19 pm

Preferably for tritanium or dilithium... supplies would just be a crude knock off the Ketracel Synthesizer  >:(

posted on June 6th, 2009, 3:53 am

Sounds a lot like  the old A1 Orbital mining station wich mined metal from the planets that they were placed in orbit around. So implementing them to me in my humble opinion would  not simplify game play. With the present resourse gathering system  one can switch mineing ships  from one  resourse to another when needed. The nessity of having to place a Particle fountian for every  moon would get very cost prohibative to inplement .I feel doing so would  lead to having to add a nother layer of micro managenent to the game .

posted on June 6th, 2009, 3:58 am

It was A2, and I think it was said before that the method has more similarity to Borg efficiency.

posted on June 6th, 2009, 6:09 am

Sounds a lot like  the old A1 Orbital mining station wich mined metal from the planets that they were placed in orbit around. So implementing them to me in my humble opinion would  not simplify game play. With the present resourse gathering system  one can switch mineing ships  from one  resourse to another when needed. The nessity of having to place a Particle fountian for every  moon would get very cost prohibative to inplement .I feel doing so would  lead to having to add a nother layer of micro managenent to the game .

Do you not place miners at every moon? Heck, having to only build one building and not worry about placing miners would simplify federation play. Personally I'm in favor of such a thing, but it seems like a low priority issue.

(As for being too much like borg, no real danger of that. The borg's main resource mining thing is only needing the miner, no construction ship, that's different enough that it's not a copy)

posted on June 6th, 2009, 10:56 am

Perhaps it can be used to harvest resources/supply on a planetary body?

posted on June 7th, 2009, 3:45 am

It was A2, and I think it was said before that the method has more similarity to Borg efficiency.

Tyler I stand corrected been a while since last played on wich game it was.But I feel to implement the use of the Pf  would be a step backwards to the old days where you  had 4 resourses one had to manage  (1)Dilithium ,(2)Tritanium (3) Metal and (4)crew.  to use such a orbital facility to  mine metal  from planets  might work  if  the maps had planets  in them. but most maps now do not.