[Pax]

Originally posted by Skulky:
Now there's an idea, how about making a sphereworld that doesn't produce resources, it has like 10 slots or so, so its only useful as a shipyard with 64 B people. By the way, growing that many people is truly heinous

Actually it was surprisingly easy. P&N has some "crossover" techs, things you get if you have TWO (or more?) Racial Techs.

The race in question was a Temporal/Organic race ... so it had Temporal Cloning Centers as an option. IIRC, +400M per year per planet. Since there were 12 planets in the system, I had a couple BIG freighters make the rounds, sucking about 450M per year per planet, in total, and dropping them on the Sphereworld. Including the SW itself, we're talking about 5.2M in growth per year, from that one facility alone!

And it got to 77B, not 64B. Advanced Storage = 120% population, as well as 120% facilities. It was at 77B *years* before the facility slots were full ...

And yes, a fully armed battlemoon in ... about 5 or 6 turns (considering all the mounts I used, heh ... they were costing over 500K minerals apiece). Absolute gadzillions of fightercraft or troops, if I'd wanted. Very fun, especially considering ~150 monoliths produced QUITE a nice bit of resources ...

Also very UNlikely to actually happen in any "real game" sort of situation.