[BigBlue]

The system with the ringworld started out as empty except for a nebula. I created a star, and then brought in a fleet of 11 ships to build the battle stations to house the components. When the stations were built, I created the ringworld. Now when I click on the ringworld, the detail display in the top right looks just like it does when I click on any empty space in the system view. No colony ships recognize the ring as a planet and transports do not list the ring world as a target for dropping population.

Can anyone suggest a work-around for this?
I thought about putting cargo containers (full of population) and colonizing modules into the design of my component battle stations. Would that work?

Also, is it worth is?
It would seem that a ring world (or sphere world) would have hundreds of times the surface area of a huge planet. Do the rings/spheres have hundreds of facility slots or a population limit that is in the tens of billions? If not they would not seem to be worth the effort to build.



[This message has been edited by BigBlue (edited 14 November 2000).]