orbital logistics

Add it to the colony that every planet gets when you colonize it . Find the colony in planetaryimprovements.xml or whatever it is.

Thanks for the idea Tetra, unfortunately didnt work. for now im just going to mess with the AI values of the fleet manager/planetary defenses tech.

dont suppose there is a way to make a planetary improvement show up upon colonization, like the innital colony?

maybe you could change the properties for the initial colony building itself, adding the requiered ability - it has to be in one datafile i guess...

F_LogisticLimit
This value increases the number of ships that you can have in an orbital fleet. The code that uses this looks for specific improvements, so adding this to additional improvements would have no affect.

-from Cari's modding guide

So, is it possible to mod in a second building upon colony creation? As adding it to other improvements, or to a tech doesnt seem to work.

Or, is it possible to have a tech that places a building upon each planet upon completion? Only thing i can think of even slightly analogous would be terraforming except it would create a single square, which then would allow you to build only that building (in this case, the fleet manager)

Yes, i could just change the tech requirement for the building itself, but unless it had other, significant bonuses it would take up too much valuable real estate.

Really think it would make a differance in game - noteably when the player is "farming exp" - taking on one ship at a time where a fleet might harm or destroy it.