Megaport

	A vast starport where the stars can touch the dirt. Regimented lander gantries and armoured fuel tanks are laced together by access-roads and short-haul cargo trams feeding a sprawl of warehouse districts and logistics terminals, all making the colony vastly more accessible.
–In-game description

A Megaport is a structure. It is built by upgrading a Spaceport.

Construction

Megaport costs 300,000¢ to be upgraded to and has a build time of 150 days.

It will refund 225,000¢ when downgraded and 262,500¢ when shutdown.

Upkeep

Megaports have a base upkeep of 2,000¢ * (colony size - 2).

A Megaport will incur an upkeep penalty if the demand for Fuel, Supplies, or Ship Hulls & Weapons is not met. The penalty is a 10% increase to upkeep per unit of the largest shortage amount.

Effects

• Provides +80% accessibility to the colony.
• Provides +(colony size) population growth.

Note: A Megaport, or its downgrade Spaceport, provide the majority of a colony's accessibility, both directly and by removing the -100% accessibility penalty from the lack of a spaceport, thus making exports or imports without one nigh-impossible.

Production

• Crew: equal to colony size - 1

Demands

• Fuel: equal to colony size
• Supplies: equal to colony size
• Ship Hulls & Weapons: equal to colony size

AI Cores

Megaports receive the following perks from the assignment of an AI Core:

• Gamma: reduces demand by 1 unit, increases Pather interest & Hegemony interest by 1.
• Beta: reduces demand by 1 unit, reduces upkeep by 25%, increases Pather interest & Hegemony interest by 2.
• Alpha: reduces demand by 1 unit, reduces upkeep by 25%, increases accessibility by an additional 20%, increases Pather interest & Hegemony interest by 4.

Additional Buffs

Additionally, a Fullerene Spool can be added to a Spaceport or Megaport on non extreme weather / extreme tectonic activity, non gas giants worlds to increase accessibility by an additional 30%. This will also increase Pather interest by 4.

A Story point Improvement increases accessibility by an additional 20%.

Trivia

• The Megaport and its downgrade Spaceport are the only structures (including industries) in the game to suffer an upkeep penalty for any reason besides the colony's hazard rating.

Up to date for latest version, 0.97a.