Geocon:
Artificial borewells - The idea of the artificial borewell is to have a robo-miner use it's robo-mole to dig a deep crevase that is comparable to the depth of a natural borewell and then move off. This would allow a GeoCon to Biuld over the artificial crevase and use Heat Mining in order to generate power. Due to the nature of artificial borewells they must be dug atleast 8 tiles away from another borewell (artificial or natural). Artificial borewells
So basically you can 'cheat' and give Eden a huge advantage because they can build Geocons anywhere they want. (Remember that the geo plant produces the most power of any plant in the game. It is balanced out by the fact that there are relatively few sites (or in many cases, no sites) to build them).
Tokomak:
Plasma Turbine - By using techniques derived off of Geothermal power we can make a geothermal like system that uses the heat generated by the plasma to make steam which can be used to turn turbines. Tokomak +100 power units
Uhh... isn't this how most power plants work already? Nuclear power plants don't directly produce electricity from the reaction; the reaction produces heat which is used to heat water and create steam which drives turbines connected to generators which produce electricity.
Basically: nuclear energy -> heat energy -> mechanical energy -> electrical energy.
Advanced magnetic core - By using rare ore we have been able to renforce the magnetic core of tokomaks which reduces the damage take by the heat from the core. Tokomaks recieve -25% degeneration rate
This is also cheap... basically it makes the tokamak a much more ideal power source (good output and inexpensive). It would make other power sources useless because there are not enough drawbacks to tokamaks to make them replaceable with other power sources.
Wind Power Plant:
Ultra light materials - By using less heavier and less dense ore we have been able to lighten the propellers on our wind power plants allowing for the wind to move them faster thus generating more power.
Wind Power Plants recieve +50 power units
This too seems pretty cheap... does the price of the wind turbine go up? I thought it was decided that if wind power was implemented it would be cheap but produce little power (in other words you would need lots of them to get any significant power output).
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Anyway, not to sound rude or anything, but people have repeated this to you over and over again. You need to:
1- Do research so you know what you are talking about. If you researched how power was generated it would remove the need for certain types of ideas.
2- Justify the usefulness of something in the game. By this I mean there has to be a logical reason why the player would use it (for example, the tokamak thing you suggested earlier can't be justified because it would make other power sources useless). You can't just add new units or whatnot in the game just because "it sounds cool" (which is the case with things like the snail and the armadillo -- although they might look cool, they do nothing to add to the gameplay whatsoever and wouldn't work that well if you thought about how you would actually build one).
3- Balance a new idea or addition. For example, maybe a research adds hit points to buildings but increases their cost. Otherwise you will end up creating "ownage end all" weapons which would kill the game play (and make it useless to obtain other weapons since it's the best one, having no drawbacks).
4- Scientifically justify everything. The Outpost series is built on hard science. Creating units that use FTL drives or warp drives or interdimensional power collectors, whatever it be, if it can't be justified with today's / 50-100 years from now science, it can't find its way into the game. There can't be magic either. For example, an armadillo unit would have to roll slowly to be realistic (yes, it's a game, it could be made artificially fast -- "magic") but you need to think about those things.
5- Realize that things that worked on earth (for example "it worked in WWII") doesn't mean it would work on New Terra / Cythera / whatever. WWII happened on earth which compared to other environments is pretty easy to build stuff for (at least in human terms). On New Terra / Cythera you have a hostile environment and nothing works the way it is expected to on earth. (for example, you can't have gasoline engines because there isn't a plentiful supply of oxygen from the atmosphere. Nor is there a source for fossil fuel). So something that worked in WWII would probably be absolutely useless on another planet.
