Sphere Worlds in Populated systems - Newbie Question

[minipol]

what's the population of a ring world / sphere world? is it always the same or does this number vary?
also, i imagine since it's that big that you can place a lot of facilities there otherwise i wouldn't see a real advantage to build these.
(except for the protection of your sun)

[geoschmo]

Advantage to building a sphere/ringworld.

• Lot's of room for facilities
• 150% on all three resource values
• Room for lot's of people, so your production and construction facilities can get tremendous bonuses
• Lot's of cargo room for weapons platforms and fighters.
• Protects your star from star destroying weapons and events
• Cannot be blown up by planet destroying weapons(At leat in the stock game)
• Really, really cool to say you have built one

Disadvantages

• Takes a lot of reasearch to get the tech needed
• Takes a lot of resources and time to build the neccesary ships/bases to construct one
• Usually by the time you get one, you don't need one anymore

[minipol]

Originally posted by geoschmo:
Advantage to building a sphere/ringworld.

• 150% on all three resource values
• Room for lot's of people, so your production and construction facilities can get tremendous bonuses
• Lot's of cargo room for weapons platforms and fighters.
• Protects your star from star destroying weapons and events
• Cannot be blown up by planet destroying weapons(At leat in the stock game)
• Really, really cool to say you have built one

Disadvantages

• Takes a lot of resources and time to build the neccesary ships/bases to construct one
• Usually by the time you get one, you don't need one anymore

cool, i'm going to have to build me one in my home sector and show off :-)

[capnq]

Say, this could be the explanation of that report of a system with planets, but no star.
I tried this but you can't create a planet from asteroids unless there is already a star in the system.

That's not what I meant. If someone build a sphereworld in a system with planets, and then the sphereworld was destroyed, the planets would still be there, but no star.

Except that would leave an asteroid field where the sphereworld was, so I guess that's not it.

[ August 22, 2002, 22:24: Message edited by: capnq ]