[Fyron]

Originally posted by Unknown_Enemy:
Never been able to terraform a radiated planet with either genesis device or the athmospheric conVersion 3.

Is that ok ?

Irradiated is a planet size, not an atmosphere. So, you can not convert them from Irradiated with an Atmosphere Converter. You'd actually do harm by converting the atmosphere, because a domed colony on an Irradiated planet has more space than an undomed colony on the same planet has.

Planet Destroying (PD) devices operate by the position of the planet size in PlanetSizes.txt. As the Irradiated planet is somewhere around the end of the file, a PD would need to have an ability number somewhere between 30 and 50. It would then be able to destroy _anything_ above the Irradiated planet, including Ring- and Sphereworlds, and Asteroid Belts.

That is the technical reason why it is impossible to destroy an Irradiated planet (or a Machine world, or Ringed planet, etc.). Think of them as something special and unique in the galaxy.

If you insist upon wanting to make them into normal planets, you could always detonate the star in the system and rebuild them (and everything else).

[ December 02, 2002, 23:04: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]