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Oh no how will my race (no atmosphere Ice world) conquer the galaxy without all those almost guaranteed outPosts in every system http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif. Try using a no atmosphere race a few times you will never need that atmosphere converter again. Its a slower start but after you conquer a few races you can colonize everything.

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I've never experimented with it myself (though I have played a no-atmosphere race quite often, it's one of my Favorites), but what happens if you build an atmosphere convertor on a gas giant and your race likes no atmosphere?

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Posted system and quadrant mod.
 

Posted in Mod section.

Here's some simple mods i made to the original quadrants and systems.

1) Got rid of those annoying (to me) tiny moons.

2) Removed black holes since they give the AI so much trouble and readjusted the % chances.
(Left the black hole system info in there so they can be added in easily.)

I didn't reduce the number of planets except for getting rid of the tiny moons so that there would still be plenty of planets of all types in each good system.

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Re: Posted system and quadrant mod.
 

I tested this and found that the converter trys and trys but there is just way too much atomsphere to get rid of it.

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Thats good if it worked the Gas Giant would probably be tiny by the time it was done http://www.shrapnelgames.com/ubb/ima...ons/icon12.gif. Whats left of a gas giant once you take away all the gas?

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<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by Tomgs:
Whats left of a gas giant once you take away all the gas?<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>

quite a bit, actually. consider that the earth is a 'rock' world, but once you go 5 miles down you hit molten mantle. on a gas world, the sheer mass of the world will create enough gravatational heat and pressure to form a solid 'surface' and when the heat and pressure get too extreme, you are going to have a liquid core.

depending on the component elements though, there is a gotcha when you start stripping off the atmosphere. you might just relieve enough pressure to cause the surface to vaporize into gas again, and then you would have another layer of gas to strip off. it would be a sort of cascading problem.

at least thats what I recall from jr high science. its been quite a while.
someone more knowledgeable than me will have to speak up here, but I am not sure that you can HAVE huge style rock or ice worlds, because they would effectively be gas giants once they reach a certain size. that is, the atmosphere would be of such a volume that it would have to be classified as one.