With the addition of moons in rebellion, I was wondering what planet types would people like to see in future expansions. To get the ball rolling I would like to put forward two ideas I've been a ponderin...
- Nebulae- These massive, dense areas of gas and dust would have a gravity well the size of a star's and fog of war. The idea being that you could set ambushes within these large areas of space, fog of war hiding your vessels, allowing for a whole new avenue of tactical warfare.
- Ancient artifact, weapon system, foundry, etc- Your race could discover an ancient space station of such immense size it has its own gravity well. When colonized, with additional research, your race could bring the station back on line granting you access to the station's immense foundry's able to field expensive but incredibly powerful warships controlled by the stations immense AI, loss of the station however would cut contact with the AI rendering the fleet utterly useless. In other systems there could be huge ancient mass drivers, easily outmatching the super weapons of the "younger" races. Perhaps even more insidious the station could possess an artificial wormhole able to jump your fleets to any wormhole in the game, and back again. These stations would lead to gigantic space battles over their control leading to many movie-esque moments.
Anyway these are just a few ideas, I realise they may be flawed, it would be interesting to see what the community could come up with...