Orbital Ion Cannon (Space Age Edition)


When you need to call down the thunder to deal with those pesky biters, launch a rocket with an ion cannon into orbit and show the bugs who's boss. NEW supports Kux-Radars NEW +3 technologies: Area Fire and Ion Cannon Mk2

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3 months ago
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g [LAUNCHED....] Factorio 2.0 (Space Age) ...still testing

11 months ago

An update for Factorio 2.0 (Space Age) is not yet planned.
Please vote for it here

11 months ago

voting

11 months ago

It would be lovely to have it.

11 months ago

I vote for it!

11 months ago

I Vote Yes

11 months ago

voting yes

11 months ago

yes, please. Just started with Space Age and this is one of my favorite mods.

11 months ago

please

10 months ago

Voting yes as well. This is one of the more fun mods I used before 2.0 came out. Would love to have it back again.

10 months ago

YES PLS maybe as Buildable item on an Space Platform!

10 months ago

YES PLS maybe as Buildable item on an Space Platform!

That is a great idea, actually. I bet there is a way to detect a building in orbit.

10 months ago

Having it as an actual buildable item on space platforms would be a godsend. Feel like vanilla SA lacks in the fun interplanetary military tools that SE provides, and it'd be such a cool addition!

10 months ago

+1

10 months ago

+1

10 months ago

I realized how much I missed this mod while I am playing Space Age. Please update.

10 months ago

+1

10 months ago

+1

10 months ago

YES PLS maybe as Buildable item on an Space Platform!

Yeah, that would be really cool

10 months ago

Having it as an actual buildable item on space platforms would be a godsend. Feel like vanilla SA lacks in the fun interplanetary military tools that SE provides, and it'd be such a cool addition!

Love this idea and fully agree. Just yesterday I was bemoaning being able to harvest asteroids using flexible grabbers and travel to other planets.. but at the same time, can't use any of that tech to rain down fire as either Lazers or Kinetic Energy Weapons on biters! +1 from me.

10 months ago

how many votes are needed? nukes arnt enough for monstrous biters and M.I.R.V.s cause too much lag

10 months ago

The last update was downloaded by 47.6K users.
How many of them do you think should vote? 1%? 0.1%?
we are now at 20 these are 0.04 % ;-)
It's not really a question of how many. I have a few other mods to work on first and until then it's interesting how many people ‘bother’ to give their +1 here.

10 months ago

Most likely because a lot of us actually enjoy having it and miss it?

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10 months ago
(updated 10 months ago)

now testing...

10 months ago

It's not really a question of how many. I have a few other mods to work on first and until then it's interesting how many people ‘bother’ to give their +1 here.

Yeah, you are absolutely right. I was constantly visiting this thread on an almost daily basis for weeks to see how the vote is going, but I was too lazy participating in the vote until now...
Definitely a +1 from me! I really enjoy this mod and appreciate your efforts in keeping this alive and improving it.
And I also absolutely love the idea of having the orbital cannon as sort of a building on the space stations (if technically viable). Sounds really exciting!

10 months ago

First I will restore compatibility for Factorio 2.0 only.
And then I have to play Space Age first to see how it works and only then could new Feastures be added (unless someone with more time and enough experience steps in). Until then, you are welcome to post ideas.

10 months ago

a estimation date for a beta-version ? we can maybe help you to find bugs

10 months ago
(updated 10 months ago)

As someone said earlier, it would make sense to be able to lauch the ion cannon from a space platform (maybe only make it in orbit?).
We'll probably have to find a ‘trick’ to launch the ion cannon into orbit via a capsule/pod or something.

space age has centralised the buttons, so you no longer need to create an ‘ion cannon command’ object, it will (or should?) be in the menu on the right.

10 months ago
(updated 10 months ago)

Launched

10 months ago

@Fr_Dae this is the wrong place for suggestions. it's best if you open a new thread, then i can also reply

10 months ago

Now is the question how do we launch them after crafting

10 months ago

@tiger this is also the wrong place for questions. it's best if you open a new thread, then I can answer too
it's a shame that I have to say this again, doesn't everyone read?

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