Making oxygen

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
Sorry Elowan, editing a post does not move it up or down the thread.

Krsqk posted his entire message (18:04)
Before you posted your original (unedited) message. (18:05)
You then edited it at (18:08)

I know that! I was just yanking his chain!

[gravey101]

I'm not sure I've ever seen anyone try to build atmosphere converters in a pbw game. I know I never have. There just isn't enough time. Much more cost effective to trade for or capture other population and bring them home :-)

[Puke]

if you guys are really that hell bent on having the first post, you could always post a blank message and edit your content in later..

of course, anyone who actually does that should hang their head in shame.

[Elowan]

Originally posted by Puke:
if you guys are really that hell bent on having the first post, you could always post a blank message and edit your content in later..

of course, anyone who actually does that should hang their head in shame.

Heh! Try getting out more! My post was a gag.

[DirectorTsaarx]

Originally posted by Arkcon:
Personally, I think a solar system with every planet, even the moons, with your races atmosphere at optimum conditions is a cooler tribute to the glory of your empire than a sphereworld -- a dull metal dot in the center.

Now a ringworld on each star of a trinary system, now that's something else again. Never did that.

I did that once; built all three simultaneously, too. I even had the foresight to turn the single asteroid field in that system into a huge planet (had to do that before finishing the ringworlds, obviously) to house the system-wide bonus facilities, plus some other specialized facilities (training centers, system shield, happiness facility, resource converter, etc.). I never did finish that game...

[ August 15, 2002, 21:07: Message edited by: DirectorTsaarx ]

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by DirectorTsaarx:

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
Personally, I think a solar system with every planet, even the moons, with your races atmosphere at optimum conditions is a cooler tribute to the glory of your empire than a sphereworld -- a dull metal dot in the center.

Now a ringworld on each star of a trinary system, now that's something else again. Never did that.

I did that once; built all three simultaneously, too. I even had the foresight to turn the single asteroid field in that system into a huge planet (had to do that before finishing the ringworlds, obviously) to house the system-wide bonus facilities, plus some other specialized facilities (training centers, system shield, happiness facility, resource converter, etc.). I never did finish that game...

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Oh La La La, Mag-Knee-Fee-K Now if only you had, and could give all that to an AI. Then they would really give you a run for your money.

At least until they tried to build too many fighters and the game crashed with range check errors.

Ask me how often that happend to me. Go on. Ask.

[dogscoff]

Yeah, I went for the triple-Molly once in a devnullmod vsAI game. I built them all pretty much simultaneously, and I think I finished all three. At least two, anyway.

My CO2 race had several ringworlds of their own in other systems, so I made this system my zoo/ museum=-) : the ringworlds were exclusively defended by inferior alien ships & units taken from trades, crew insurrections and planetary invasions. I had oxygen races on one ringworld, hydrogen on another and methane on the third, although the atmos converters never had time to finish their jobs before I had to patch and lost the game=-(

Oh, and I had previously built the system's asteroid field into a large atmos-none planet, which was a convenient home for my captured Space monster and United Flora (both atmos none) populations. I dubbed it "monster island"=-)

The oxy ringworld in that system was the inspiration for the rather crappy "texrak tale" on my story page.

Personally I think the ultimate prize (other than a sphereworld full of Proportions mod colonial cultural centres=-) would be to have a sphere/ ringworld of your own atmosphere, with a huge planet for each of the other atmospheres, all in the same *sector*.

To do this you'd have to build a ringworld, then destroy it to create an asteroid field which can be converted into a huge planet. Then you create a sun in the same location, rinse and repeat until you have enough huge planets, and then build the final sphere/ ringworld.

Now *that* would be impressive. For now I think i'm going to try to get a ringworld in Proportions. That will be challenge enough.

[ August 16, 2002, 12:08: Message edited by: dogscoff ]