Originally Posted by Malorn
I think a lot of the major structures are going to look mobile. From what Smed said long ago they are "landing struts"
I suspect their long-term plans are to make it more sandbox and allow some (or all) of the facilities to be deployable. They might even be destructible.
Lots of things they can do with that, but if they look like they're mobile then allowing outfits to drop a facility or tower somewhere for a limited time is a bit more believable and makes more sense if the structures themselves look like they can be deployed.
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I doubt they will do so with entire facilities, mainly because there is simply not enough flat, unobstructed land. I think the insinuation with that was that towers would be deployable.
For bases and such, I'm pretty sure its just a motif to imply that this stuff wasn't built on site, they're prefabbed units carted to the planet and dropped on site as the initial infrastructure investment so they can start up industry.