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Originally posted by Puke:
somewhere i heard that if you condensed saturns rings, it would fill a suitcase. or maybe that was haley's commet's tail. in any event, i dont think you are getting a heck of alot of resources out of a planets rings, but someone with a cool nasa link could probably prove me wrong.
what would also be cool, is if planetary rings were a kind of stellar construction. you could use them as extra space, or as huge defensive weapon platforms. of course, i still am in favor of being able to construct hive facilities on planets that increase available space at a massive resource cost. not sure what reminded me of that, but its a good idea, says me.
Yes, you are talking about something I suggested months ago. You build an "orbital elevator" facility to connect it to the ground and then add an artificial ring around your planet. This should add extra facility spaces and maybe population capacity. A graphic of a ring-shaped space station should be made to appear around the planet when you get it built. Having the ring appear in the combat map might be harder but worthwhile. This would be much easier than a ringworld or a sphereworld. It could be down at level 4 or 5 of Stellar Manipulations or maybe a special field could be made for "Megascale Engineering" with three different things to construct. Increasing population capacity of a planet should be really easy compared to these other projects. He just needs to add the ability for a facility to increase population capacity and maybe a new facility picture. Instant "Arcology"!
Maybe that could be the very first project in the Megascale Engineering field.
[This message has been edited by Baron Munchausen (edited 08 August 2001).]