Newbie building sphere/ringworld question

[FriendJosh]

Sorry to bother, but i was wondering if i could get a quick question answered:

How do you make dyson spheres? I can make the material, but I dont have a ship big enough to hold the elements. The elements only fit on a base.

[Coal]

You use construction ships to build bases equiped with the material and components in the same sector as the star. You should build lots of contruction ships because it takes a long time to build the stations, and more ships means faster production of the bases.

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[FriendJosh]

thanks for the info!

[Q]

The most economic way is to use one or several space yard ships to construct first space yard bases in the sector of the star. I use spacestations with just the space yard and no further unnecessary components. 11 bases for a ring world; 21 for a sphereworld. Bases have lower maintenance costs than ships! As soon as possible you choose one space yard to start with the construction of the ringword/sphereworld placement generator. This component takes twice the construction time than the planetary gravity plating and the hyper density cables. Once the remaining construction time of the placement generator is equal to the construction time of the platings and cables you start to construct simultaneously 5 each of the platings and cables for the ringworld and 10 each for the sphereworld.
This gives you the complete construction of all needed components at the same time, which is essential. Otherwise your empire might go bankrupt due to the astronomic maintenance cost of the constructed but not yet used bases with the components for the sphere-/ringworld!
And Last but not least have a rock colony ship and population transport ready for the new ringword/sphereworld!


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[Taqwus]

The impatient, profligate types among us can also use the refit trick to build the bases in just a couple o' turns... it'll cost you an arm and several legs, but you can do it. ISTR that it came up when Dracus was discussing how he built vast numbers of 'em for the TwinGalaxies tourney.

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Originally posted by Taqwus:
The impatient, profligate types among us can also use the refit trick to build the bases in just a couple o' turns... it'll cost you an arm and several legs, but you can do it. ISTR that it came up when Dracus was discussing how he built vast numbers of 'em for the TwinGalaxies tourney.

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How's that work? Make a bunch of bases and retrofit them to be ringworld component bases?

I thought that if there was to high of a cost differnec, you couldn't retrofit one ship into another?