Ringworld Contruction

Wanderer · #1 February 24th, 2003, 09:59 PM

Don't forget: you need to send a colony ship (same colony type as your homeworld) to the ringworld, preferably timed to arrive at the same time the construction takes place.

First time I built one I had to sit and admire it for 5 turns whilst I built and brought up a colony ship...

Oh, and having a few population ships ready to deposit a few billion of your race on the thing is a good idea too.

Fyron · #2 February 24th, 2003, 10:00 PM

Or, build one on-site (and send lots of large transports to put billions of people on it). Be warned: the population bonuses only go up to 10 billion in the unmodded game. So, filling up a RW is actually a bad idea, as those extra 40-56 billion people could be used on other planets to get bonuses.

mlmbd · #3 February 25th, 2003, 06:45 PM

Oh yeah, Thanks! I have transposrts there and on there way there. I forgot about the colony ship. Thank goodness I had a Colony ship on the way to another system. SphereWorld for it now!

mlmbd

Fyron · #4 February 26th, 2003, 02:40 AM

I have actually never built a RW or SW before. Games are just over long before it becomes practical to build them.

I have played in 2 PBW games that used them as the HW though.

mlmbd · #5 February 26th, 2003, 05:05 PM

Fyron,

Quote:

I have actually never built a RW or SW before. Games are just over long before it becomes practical to build them.

That is the case with me as well. But I am play testing a mod. So, now I am going to get my chance to build one!

mlmbd

rdouglass · #6 February 26th, 2003, 06:23 PM

One of the best ways I've extended games before is to get my empire to the point of building a RW, build one, and gift everything (planets, ships, etc.) EXCEPT the RW to the best AI left. Its almost like starting over with a challenging AI...

Try it - those games IMO are a lot of fun...

gregebowman · #7 February 26th, 2003, 08:44 PM

I built a ringworld and a sphere world in my first game. It did take forever to build, but you have a lot of spaces to fill in afteward. Now, with some of the mods I've played, I never to seem to progress that far into the game to attempt to build one. Usually because I seem to be getting my butt kicked and I need those resources for other things, or I'm just so tired of losing that I start another game. I was playing a couple of games that seemed promising as far as my progression seemed, but now that my computer was zapped, it will probably be awhile before I get back to those games.