The UIT are entirely space based... but, their stations are pretty small. I propose that the UIT
And UIT alone get one per system Dyson Sphere. Its more logical, could likely be done with existing
Assets and it would give some much needed visual diversity.

+1

I read this thread title, and thought there actually were new UIT stations in game and this was a suggestion thread about them.

+1

I'd like to see larger capitol stations for the Serco and Itani, too.

At least the nation capitols should have something crazy impressive.

+1

Dyson Sphere, or Ring-World like in, well, "Ringworld" (novel), subsequently ripped off in Halo and the upcoming Peter Jackson film, "Elysium". Make this Dau Senate or whatever the other capitol stations are called...

Give TPG a big-ass shipyard with lots of skeletal connies & stuff being built in open dry-dock/scaffold structures. Imagine a fly-thru of incomplete cap-ship hulls...

Give Orion Heavy Manufacturing a manufacturing station where it might be believable they manufacture heavy things, like station modules and capship hulls.

Give BioCom some cool greenhouse-looking terrarium-domed structures where they are incubating the next biological weapon to be sold to the highest bidder.

Axia already has the coolest station in the game at Verasi I-5. Make more stations that interlink roid clusters and rings. Incorporate fly-thru tunnels into them!

Valent... Think giant robotic assembly-lines mass-producing drones.

/3/: "Make the game better in obvious, non-controversial ways!"

Devs: "We would if we could, but we can't right now! But Soon(tm)!!"

/3/+X years: "Now?!?111"

Devs+X years: "See prior answer!"

-1 to Dyson Spheres. Those are way beyond the tech level of the setting. Even a ringworld would be way too much. Remember that a dyson sphere (and a proper ringworld) is built to enclose an entire star so that it can harvest all of the star's energy output. They are ridiculously absurdly massive, being hundreds of millions of kilometers in diameter.

Halo's version of the ringworld is many orders of magnitude smaller (only tens of thousands of kilometers in diameter). Still, those were Earth-sized structures, which are still beyond the technological capacity of the UIT.

What would be realistic for the UIT to have are spinning-donut style orbital colonies tens of kilometers in diameter or less.

Be patient and wait for the promised megastations.

I ask for HUGE stations since I joined the game, looong ago. I come from Freespace background, where capital ships are large as VO's largest stations. Cities in the sky should be at least the size of the existing Shipyards... like, takes many seconds to fly from one end to opposing one.

Even so, I have to agree with Pizza. Dyson Spheres are way beyond what's feasible now or SOON(tm).
As a simple start, they would extend across many sectors... like an "infinite" wall limiting space, as our sectors are "infinite".


Yes, it is as large as a full SYSTEM, many sectors wide...

but can be cool looking:

It's a game... who cares if it's ultra realistic. It's an easy way to explain how an entire nations population is space borne.

+1 to Habitats in space. Dyson spheres seem a bit excessive - I like the spinning donut idea. +1 to CD.
Also, give Itanis more... artsy stations, if you get what I mean. Built with the same style and grace the Valk was built with.
The Serco's stations should look like giant lego bricks. They Serco would design their stations with efficiency in mind, not looks.

+1 to better station gfx and capships should be able to dock at nation capital stations

+1

Maybe redesigned stations could be done as a community project. 3D modelling tools are common these days. Maybe start by inviting new designs for new nation capital stations and if any are good enough, use them. If the project works then continue the project for other stations.

+1....