Re: Mining a Sphere World
 

The planet's value is meaningless for the Crystalline race's solar resource generator. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif For the RW/SW, it is based directly on the star, so the value could be said to be the value of the energy/materials being projected off of the star. The amount of material from the star that reaches the planets is very low, considering that it is more or less evenly distributed over a spherical area. But a RW/SW is capable of trapping a lot of it, seeing as it is so close to the star and completely encircles it (as a ring or a sphere). With a stretch of the imagination, it works out. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/wink.gif

Re: Mining a Sphere World
 

I can understand the not creating a new star, since that would kinda mess up the established orbits (not that making a ring/sphereworld wouldn't http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif), not to mention that whole new day/night thing. Not being able to make a planet is kinda weird, though. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/smilies/happy.gif

Re: Mining a Sphere World
 

Imagine the process of getting a building permit to make a new planet...


RL Diegession:
I own some property in Julian (small resort town in the mountains, east of my home in San Diego). I can't sell it because I dont have the ~$3,500 for the perk tests needed...and you can't really sell it without perk testing, because the building permit depends on the results of the perk test. Nobody wants to buy a pig in a poke.

Maybe this is only in California...