Crystalline Resource Exploit! - Page 2

tesco samoa · #11 December 12th, 2002, 11:15 PM

what is a Stellar Plasma Sphere

Arkcon · #12 December 12th, 2002, 11:53 PM

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Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
... her, wait, coworker... You're reading the SE4 forums at work? Naughty, naughty Arkcon! That means you'll have to spend some time in Quarantine!

Oh no ... 84 days of DIY videos.

LazarusLong42 · #13 December 13th, 2002, 01:10 AM

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Originally posted by Arkcon:
1). What would be cool would be to use the map editor to make a system with a dozen stars in a Kempler Rosette (I have no idea what that is, heard it on Star Trek)

A Klemperer Rosette is several bodies of effectively equal mass locked into equivalent but rotated orbits about either a central body, or the center of mass of the system.

So, for instance, if you took five more Earths and placed them every 60 degrees around the sun, they would be very stable, and you'd have a Rosette.

Eric/LL

Ed Kolis · #14 December 13th, 2002, 11:50 PM

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Originally posted by tesco samoa:
what is a Stellar Plasma Sphere

The thing you use to create new stars. At least I think that's what it's called... I've never actually used it anyway

Arkcon · #15 December 14th, 2002, 02:25 AM

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Originally posted by capnq:
Google can't seem to decide whether the term is "Kempler Rosette" or "Klemperer Rosette", but it's several small bodies orbiting a larger one, spaced at regular intervals along the same orbit.

Hmm...I figured it was named after Johannes Kepler or some such spelling ... oh well, it wouldn't look that way in SE4 anyway.

A trinary system should be plenty for a crystaline race -- I only built the solar collectors once. I was loseing badly, and there was a planet in a trinary system. But I couldn't build fast enough to survive.

I began to suspect that I wasn't getting 3 X the resources, but I was.

Daynarr · #16 December 14th, 2002, 05:49 AM

You cant build a sun in system the already has a sun for a loooooooong time now. This was a discussion topic long time ago (almost when se4 came out).
If it were possible, there would be a way (ab)use the "feature" in different way (not resource gathering). You would just need 1 ship to warp in the system, create a sun and get out. Next turn (or even same turn that sun is created) you would blow up a sun and clear the whole system of all enemy ships, colonies etc. Would be devastating tactic (and not so expensive), especially against AI.