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Originally posted by CW:
1-do you mean this is going to take 5 years plus the construction time for the components?
2-I also gathered that all the starbases containing the components must be built in the same square where the sun is, is that true?
3-Strategically speaking I really don't see a point to build this monster, it is more like a monument than anything else.
no, yes, and yes. someone worked out a cost/benefit analysis a while back and figured out that you can actually make a profit off of ringworlds in a fairly short space of time. I guess organic races would have a good time with replicant centers on one of these, but temporal races would do better in the short run with temporal spaceyards.
someone mentioned that constructions are immune to planet destroyers, i do not think this is so. I thought that they counted as a huge planet and as such could be destroyed by the highest level of planet destroyer. can anyone confirm?
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