Usable on all Metallic planets. This artifact can be research from the CT lab.
It Requires to make:

40 Ion storm charges
40 Containment Cages
25 Warp Gate Chassis
250 Energy

Describition:
Usable on metallic planets, it compresses the metallic planet into a rich source of resources.

Resources, +5 to all resources, Size: -2 (reduces the size).

What do you think?

I like the idea, but I don't like the arti, so idk, +.5?

Size is more important in the long run but if you are strapped for cash it could be a quick boost

To have +5 resources is great but to have something very good like this. there must be a down fall.
The down fall of this is reducing the size of the planet.

Looking at Buying/rares. it would prove more income for GL if people wants to expands there platuimized planet. as it costs 50 GL points per that size increase expander. whats 100 GL points. getting them are very rare. and would be cheaper than using 5 terrformers.

If your going to use a rift artifact than making a 15x artifact metallic then using this means is 20x plus rift = 35x artifact rift planet and wouldn't matter about the size then.

Its how you use it. over what actual abilities it has.

You could use crystals to get it to 20x use this arti to 25x and then rift for a 40x arti rift that's a pretty sweet rift.

Interesting idea, but it is a silly name, so I cannot give it my support.

Dunno about anyone else, but it would really burn my ass if I dropped tens of millions of research points into the lab and get the SECOND part of the recipe without already having the first. A recipe using a CT item isn't a very good way to go.

I'd like to see something more radical...

I like your idea of space station but it seems to big especially with planets being Very Massive.

How about getting an item that gives us the choice between:
Specialized Metallic - Mining: Size Massive, +1 mining, +1500 cloak/defense, Permanent Ultra Pure Deposit ability (Mining +20%). Looks like a cross between an Ecumenopolis and a metallic planet.

Specialized Metallic - Research: Size Massive, +1 research, +1500 cloak/defense, Permanent Planetary Cybernetic Network (Research +20%). Looks like a round Matrioshka Brain.

I think the idea of finding NPCs after doing the irradiated planet mission makes sense.

I'm bucking the trend of +size planets and saying this upgrade will make all metallic planets getting this upgrade massive. So yes, a very massive will become a massive but an average will become a massive. This will make planets that are normally ignored because of size become viable and valuable.

From Dec, 2011:

Same idea, Two different routes.

We are on about changing the same planet, metallic.
but we are on 2 different ideas. Please dont go into "o this is just a copy of mine".

Not at all. The problem with yours is that you've pretty much doomed this idea to being useful by reducing the size. Removing two sizes means that most metallics below VM become even less useful than they are now and on the other size, +1 to a metallic is eh since most people are already only taking the M and VM since they are so common.

Out of 46 metallics on my scan, 8 are large, 10 are VL, 12 are M, 16 are VM.

I like the idea of upping metallics, but it has to be exciting and different from what we see or it is just another generic upgrade that people may or may not do. Heck, I don't see mine as that exciting or different but it is different than the norm.

Plus, using arties already in the CTLab multiple times just makes things harder.

How about compressing a metallic into a black hole using Dark Void ACFs, that would be exciting and new.