Gas, Atmosphere none?

[Dingocat85]

It's impossible to start an Empire on a Gas - no Atmosphere planet, since it's an 'invalid planet type'. Naturally, there are no 'Gas - no atmosphere' planets in any galaxy.

However...what happens if you do the following?
1) Start a game on a Rock or Ice planet, w/ No atmosphere

2) Develop Atmospheric Converters (whatever they're called)

3) Colonize a Gas Giant, and convert its atmosphere

what would happen? An 'Integer overflow error', maybe?

[oleg]

Nothing. Atmospheric Converter will suck gas but since it so much of it, it will never finish the job

[Fyron]

Why would there be an integer overflow error? It takes one line of code to prevent gas giants from being able to be converted by a none-breathing empire.

[Aloofi]

What if a Gas giant is destroyed, and then rebuild?
Will it be a gas giant?
Will it change its size to small?

In any case, the cost of all this will probably be sky high, right?

[Fyron]

Destroying any planet creates an asteroid belt of the same size that the planet was. Building a new planet there will create a planet of the same size, but with random atmosphere and type. Asteroids do not remember what they were before they became asteroids.

[Ruatha]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Asteroids do not remember what they were before they became asteroids.

Asteroids have poor memory, hmm.
So what you are saying is that you should never trust an asteroid to remember anything important, always make sure they write everything down?