Planet Abilities

[Wenin]

Is it possible to have planets with more than one ability?

[Suicide Junkie]

Multiple abilities are easy to add in the map editor.
Randomly generated planets only get zero or one abilities, though.

[Randallw]

I practically never make use of the special abilities of planets as they are usually useless. 10% extra mining is no use when the planet has only a concentration of 8 in the first place. That said I did have trouble with an enemy planet in one game because it cancelled out the shields of my attacking fleet.

[Suicide Junkie]

Oh.

What you might try, is specifying storms in the same sector as the planet in systemtypes.txt

The storms can then contribute extra sector-effects, such as shield disruption/boosting, damage, cloaking, etc.

[Fyron]

Randallw said:
10% extra mining is no use when the planet has only a concentration of 8 in the first place.

If you are refering to the facility ability placed on a planet object itself, this does not actually work.

[Wenin]

The only abilities you can give to a planet are those abilities usable in the StellarAbilityTypes.txt file?

[Captain Kwok]

Yep.

[Fyron]

There are a select few that can be added, such as cargo storage.

[Wenin]

Cargo storage is really through the properties of the planet, and not an ability. Right?

[Fyron]

There is a cargo storage ability that increases the cargo space of the planet. It is used in the stock game by the cargo facility.