[Spyder]

Alrighty.....

I built a RingWorld Last night. I used 7 construction ships. It took 54 turns (WITH a racial production bonus of 25%) to produce the Space Station with the RingWorld Generator. The other Space Stations were built much more quickly.

As a side note to support my statements below, in the time it took (54 turns) to build the RingWorld, I had completely destroyed my primary competition through Crew Insurrection, Political Puppet Parties, & Resource Appropriation. I didn't even do any other building or combat...I just clicked the mouse 108 times (God, I hate confirmation boxes).

I have to admit that a world that is 5x a Huge Gas Giant is nice, but, at that late point in the game it is irrelevant. This game was my first complete game which was played with fairly easy settings: Few Opponents, Wormholes anywhere, Not all systems Connected, Huge Galaxy, No AI bonus...all else medium or normal.

I met an opponent fairly early, but, I had researched Wormhole makers/killers early and after awhile I closed off his access to me so that I could finish developing the systems I had. After awhile, because I killed his wormhole and separated one of his systems from the others (Evil Grin), he declared war on me and I took over that system and then destroyed him with Intelligence (he eventually surrendered) while I developed planets.



[This message has been edited by Spyder (edited 21 February 2001).]