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Old April 30th, 2003, 09:43 PM
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Default Re: Ring/Sphere World

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Originally posted by Slick:
Your planets will be unharmed, and as a side benefit will now be impervious to star destroying ships in that system.
Has anyone ever tried using a planet-destroying bomb (Tectonic Bomb, I believe it's called), on a ringworld? Do you get Asteroids, your old sun back, maybe Asteroids orbiting a sun?

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Originally posted by dogscoff:
however, if you have any un-planetted asteroid fields in the system, you'd better use them before the ringworld is built because (unless you have multiple stars in the system) the planet-builder component will stop working in that system once the ringworld is completed.
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Originally posted by Gwaihir:
Also, solar panels, solar sails (IIRC), and solar collection arrays or whatever those resource-generating crystalline thingies are will also stop working.
...couldn't you just build another sun, in the same system where you you build the ringworld?
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