Quick Description:
Gas giants are, by the very name, giant planets of gas. Even the smallest of those in our own solar system (Neptune) could hold Earth and 57 duplicates (58 Earths). This would mean that there is a whole lot of room for all sorts of beings to find a place to settle. Obviously this would be rather difficult in that you'd need the right technology, some very savvy engineering, and a hefty amount of effort and construction to have a place to live that would stay in the right layer and survive all the crazy atmospheric action that (we assume) would be happening. What about having this kind of thing in ES2?
Issue:
Gas Giants in ES2 do not have very high population capacity, in the early game they have a single slot and in the later game the largest (huge) gas giant has all of six slots after all system enhancements are built. This seems limited given the size and given the technology the Endless had to use (or the player during the later parts of long games). For point of reference, in the later game, with all system enhancements built, the smallest (tiny) forest planet has eight slots.
Idea:
Create a new technology that allows the building of a system improvement called "Gas Giant Habs", or something like that, which increases the total population on a gas giant based on it's overall size. Conceivably this could even be broken down by the type of gas giant as well due to the predictability of the atmosphere and thus difficulty in building the habs or encouraging people to move there. Since the gas giants come with some pretty significant FIDS numbers the technology would invariably need to be in one of the later tiers and the system improvement should have a hefty construction, and probably strategic resource, cost.
The increase could look something like this:
Simple (size only)
Advanced (size and type)
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