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Originally posted by Tomgs:
Actually to create the ring/sphere world you should really have to use up the planets in that system and maybe some surrounding systems to get the mass to build the world. So it wouldn't matter that no light was getting through because no other worlds would be left in the system outside the ring/sphereworld.
Excellent observation!
Do you think it would be a good idea, then, to require that SW/RW's only be built in systems with no planets?
When I built my first ringworld, I actually *did* build it in a system with no planets. There were three stars, and I contemplated building a ringworld around each.