Re: Help on a construction issue....
Actually you can do a ring/sphere world in 47 turns. This is the cheapest method (least maintenance paid over the construction period) that I can think of to build a RINGWORLD:
1) Assuming you have space yard III, move a construction ship to your star of choice.
2) Design a space station (I'll call it SS here) with nothing on it but the required bridge, 2x CQ, 2x LS and a space yard III.
3) Put your construction ship on emergency build and build your first space station (Let's call it SS #1), it will be completed in 3 turns.
4) When your first SS is finished make it build the Placement Generator starbase (49 turns to completion at normal rate). Put nothing but a master computer and the placement generator on your starbase. Now put your ship off emergency. It is not needed till turn 11.
5) At turn 11, have your construction ship build SS #2. When #2 is completed your construction ship is again not needed till turn 23.
6) When SS #2 is completed at turn 15, put 3 SS's into its build queue.
7) When SS #3 is completed at turn 19, put 2 SS's into its build queue.
8) It is now turn 23, your construction ship is needed again and SS #4 & #5 are completed. Put 1 SS each into #4's, #5's and your construction ship's build queues.
7) 5 new SS's are completed at turn 27. Now you should have 10 SS's including #1 which is building the placement generator plus your construction ship. Have 5 of your SS's start working on the Gravity Plating starbases, and the other 4 plus the construction ship on the Hyper Density Cable starbases. Again put nothing but a master computer and the gravity plating/HD cable on your starbases. Everything, including your Placement Generator starbase is due to be completed in 2.6 years at normal rate.
8) When there are 15 more turns to go, put all 11 build queues on emergency. Your new ringworld will be ready for final assembly in exactly 1 year.
9) Turn 47, put your new ringworld together and celebrate! Feel free to scrap/mothball or start building something useful with your 10 space stations.
[This message has been edited by CW (edited 16 September 2001).]
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