Couple Questions

[Nscaler]

Couple 'duh' questions, but its the little ones that can trip a person up.


A)Ring and Sphereworlds
Okie I'm stumped as to how to produce these. I see what I need, but that's an awlful lot of tonnage, more than the large transport can carry. There's a trick (probably very simple too) but I'm missing it.

B)Population
I'm still trying to figure out just how much the population of a planet affects stuff. Comparing two plants with shipyards I see that there's a half-turn difference on my biggest ship (currently a star creater in a BC hull). Was wondering if there was anything else that it affects, resource collection, etc.

Thanks