If You Ever Wanted To

[Glyn]

Yes, but can you create a 50 asteroid field system out of a single spherewold system?

[Kamog]

Once the asteroids are gone, they are gone permanently and you can't reverse the process.

[Atrocities]

This type of anihilation would work well in PBW games because once the planets are gone, they are truly gone. So instead of blowing up stars, just collapse them and win by attrition.

[Glyn]

Yes you can reverse the process, but it’s very inefficient.

Start with a system with one ringworld or sphereworld.
Step:
1) Use a nebula creating ship to destroy system. (Note: Order must be issued from a sun in another system.)
2) Remove system nebula. This will leave an asteroid in place of the ring/sphere-world.
3) Create a new star
4) Use new star to create a new ringworld
5) Then Repeat Steps 1-4 until you have enough asteroid fields.

[PvK]

What? You can use a star in another system to destroy a ring or sphere world?

PvK

[geoschmo]

Sounds like he's found an obvious bug, since it's predicated on giving the order while positioned over another system's sun. I've never heard of that one before, but it's not extraordinary considering some of the other quirks we've known about.

[Glyn]

You can use the black hole or nebula creation device on a remote system as long as the ship starts on a sun sector. The black hole device will cause the sun where the order is given to vanish. The nebula device doesn’t do anything to the sun at the starting location.

You can also use a second sun in the same system as a ring/sphere world to destroy the system.

[Kamog]

Wow, I never knew you could do that. This changes everything. Does this mean you can wipe out your enemies remotely from far away by building a bunch of nebula creators? Oh, boy, if you know this trick and your enemies don't, it's such a huge advantage. It doesn't matter if the other guy has huge fleets defending his borders, you could blow them all up without fighting them! Fighting the A.I.'s could become too easy now.

Question: do system gravitational facilities still protect you from such an attack? Does the game check for system gravitational facility protection in the target solar system, or in the originating system?

[Atrocities]

geoschmo said:
Sounds like he's found an obvious bug, since it's predicated on giving the order while positioned over another system's sun. I've never heard of that one before, but it's not extraordinary considering some of the other quirks we've known about.

What other quirks?