[geoschmo]

Spyder,

You are probably not going to get much of an argument to your position. The fact is that in a "conquer the galaxy as fast as you can" type of game there are probably more efficient uses of your researce and production points. The ammount of work involved to build a ring world or sphereworld is pretty staggering.

But that isn't really the point. There are a lot of things about this game that are really cool that aren't necessary to wipe all the ai of the face of the map. The variety is what makes it so interesting for someone like me.

I can defeat all the ai without researching past CSMII and destroyer, but that would be a pretty boring game if that was all we had.

Against the ai ringworlds are not really necessary. I do think in a large galaxy against several evenly-matched human opponents, the game could stretch out long enough where they became usufull, or even neccessary to have.

Geo