I have a gas planet that is very rare to have 3 production slots , research , artifact and mining but most only have research.

Since we can make Plasma planets it would be nice to have the ability to add artifact and mining production slots so we can make them 17 and 18 x's Mega planets across the board.
It would be a bonus for Dan cause some of us would want to buy terraforming artifacts to make our plasmas 18 x's mining , research and artifact.

I'd like to make this available to making an extra slot on Toxic planets and Volcanics too.

It's a win win for everyone. We would want to buy Quasi Spacial Expanders to make the planets very massive so we can make them Colossal after we bought terraforming artifacts to max out the x's mega that it will allow.

I'm not loaded with cash to keep buying all of these expanders and terraforming artifacts but I do want the option to do it.

Dan could make a new mission where we could keep repeating it over again to get a mining , artifact or a research slot and then go put it on a planet that is lacking it.
It would really be nice to have the option to have maxed out Plasma Planets across the board !

Uh...Duh No brainer +..wait fer it.....1

+1

yah why only + 2 to reasearch. the x 2 to mining and artifacts would be great. hehe

all planets have the ability to produce research, artifacts, and minerals.... if one of those is not listed on the planet it is simply because the production level is set to -100% (or in other words... absolutely 0 production per hour)... this can be seen by using a terraformer on a gas that only has research... mining and artifact production will appear at -75% (extremely sparse)

That's my point ... I don't want to just have a Gas planet that only has research on it if I have plans to make it a Plasma planet and have the option to add Artifact and mining to it and then use terraforming artifacts to max it out to 15 x's mega before I use a Quasi to expand it to a Colossal.

Wait are you saying that if my Gas planet only says research on it and I use a terraforming artifact on it that it will make an artifact and mining extremely sparse ?
If that's the case , I guess this thread isn't needed.

Yeah, that's what he's saying, and it's true.

and either i'm not understanding what you're saying or you totally missed what i said...

ALL planets ALREADY have the capability to produce ALL production types.... even though it's not listed on a planet doesn't mean that planet can't make that production type.. it just means that it makes 0 per hour of that production type... all you have to do is use a terraformer to boost the production of all 3 types one production level per terraformer... if you want to boost just the mining, use the Mylarai racial ability... if you want to boost just the artifacts, use the Taltherian racial ability

thus, we can already make 15x 15x 15x very massive gas planets (great for turning into plasma) from a crappy size gas that only has extremely sparse research and nothing else....

Maybe we can make a level 12 structure after topopolis that is smaller size 16 instead of 18 and has an output of 12.

Not sure why you put this here, as it's off-topic, but if they made that I would kill myself with excitement. O_o

massive bladder burst? cuz i'd just be so excited i'd pee myself.. but i don't think it would be enough to kill me

Source planet: v.massive v.sparse research gas.
Apply 25 terraformers. Apply Plasma upgrade.
Result: Colossal Plasma 13m/13ap/17rp planet.

Why even bother using anything smaller with your terraformers? This beats a v.large or massive 15-17x planet usually (regular planet or a crystal or similar upgrade on an AP planet). Oh, and this doesn't take any QSE to do. Oh, and its unlimited count unlike mission based upgrades (rate is entirely based on your AP->processor drops for plasma, other stuff can be sent).

Thanks for the info guys !

I can't believe that I didn't know this the entire time I've played this game lol

Having said this maybe we could do a mission that would add a mega to each type that wasn't there in the first place like :

Research : Sparse

Artifact : None

Mining : None

Obviously I just found out that we could use a terraforming artifact to make the bottom two there but what if Dan made a mission that would give us the ability to make each type Mega like :

Research : Sparse

Artifact : Mega

Mining : Mega

Looking at that makes me want the Research the same too.
Maybe the mission could be a repeatable one and we could make each type Mega but only once or keep it going.
Whatever Dan decides and keeps the game interesting.

Just an idea .. I want the ability to make my planets awesome and proud to own

lolwut? Are you saying you want an analog to Planetary data optimizers, except for Artifacts and Minrerals? We already have one for minerals and it only works on toxics. besides though, you want to always just build one building type for the highest resource on your planets, and get bonus points for the other types available when you can by building specials.

That isn't really true, especially at high levels. I have a number of planets where I don't use the highest resource because that'd be a waste. For example, I have a Colossal Sentient that's 10x in Mining and 7x in Artifacts, but I get Artifacts from it because that's more useful to me.

That isn't quite what he suggested though anyway. I'm not sure that'd be a great idea though, it'd be too easy to have a bunch of Very Massive Mega Rich Artifact planets (from Gas planets).