Bug - Asteroid w/ sphere/ring world

Hota · #1 February 11th, 2001, 12:04 AM

I found a bug.... If you try to convert an asteroid into a planet in a system with a Ring or Sphere world you'll get a message saying that it's not allowed because there's no star in the system!

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Hota

raynor · #2 February 11th, 2001, 01:47 AM

Apparently the game doesn't think there is a star once you convert the star to a star with a SW/RW around it.

Hey, nice pictures of the Migs on your website. I'd visit that museum if I could drive there from Texas.

Jason2 · #3 February 11th, 2001, 02:31 AM

Which makes sense since the star's light would no longer make it past the SW/RW...

apache · #4 February 11th, 2001, 02:49 AM

Sure its obvious the star has been negated by the ring/sphere world (though a ring world should have no effect on the star since there are plenty of other directions for the light to escape through to the rest of the system), but why does it stop you from making a planet out of an asteroid field?

Hota · #5 February 11th, 2001, 02:54 AM

I still think it should let you build the planet, what does the light from the sun have to do with squishing a lot of asteroids into one big planetoid?

RAYNOR - Thanks, We didn't even know the museum was there, we were just driving through South Island and I noticed a P-51D parked on the side of the road!

Dracus · #6 February 11th, 2001, 02:56 AM

The conscept is that you are in a sense doing the gensis project when you create a planet. the factures for the gensis project is a sun to substain life and the raw elements to make that life. since your ring world goes around the star, it can no longer provide for anything outside the ringworld, therefore life can ot be created.

Hota · #7 February 11th, 2001, 03:25 AM

But then shouldn't the other planets in the system die out?

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Hota

raynor · #8 February 11th, 2001, 04:49 AM

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Originally posted by Hota:
But then shouldn't the other planets in the system die out?

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Hota

Yep!

So, the bug isn't that you can't turn asteriods into planets once you've got a SW/RW. Instead, the bug is that the other planets in the system don't die.

Tomgs · #9 February 11th, 2001, 07:00 AM

Actually to create the ring/sphere world you should really have to use up the planets in that system and maybe some surrounding systems to get the mass to build the world. So it wouldn't matter that no light was getting through because no other worlds would be left in the system outside the ring/sphereworld.

raynor · #10 February 11th, 2001, 08:35 AM

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Originally posted by Tomgs:
Actually to create the ring/sphere world you should really have to use up the planets in that system and maybe some surrounding systems to get the mass to build the world. So it wouldn't matter that no light was getting through because no other worlds would be left in the system outside the ring/sphereworld.

Excellent observation!

Do you think it would be a good idea, then, to require that SW/RW's only be built in systems with no planets?

When I built my first ringworld, I actually *did* build it in a system with no planets. There were three stars, and I contemplated building a ringworld around each.