Ring/Sphere World

[Gwaihir]

Wait, you don't get planets when you use a sun-maker? how sad. :-(

[Dingocat85]

Originally posted by Slick:
Your planets will be unharmed, and as a side benefit will now be impervious to star destroying ships in that system.

Has anyone ever tried using a planet-destroying bomb (Tectonic Bomb, I believe it's called), on a ringworld? Do you get Asteroids, your old sun back, maybe Asteroids orbiting a sun?

Originally posted by dogscoff:
however, if you have any un-planetted asteroid fields in the system, you'd better use them before the ringworld is built because (unless you have multiple stars in the system) the planet-builder component will stop working in that system once the ringworld is completed.

Originally posted by Gwaihir:
Also, solar panels, solar sails (IIRC), and solar collection arrays or whatever those resource-generating crystalline thingies are will also stop working.

...couldn't you just build another sun, in the same system where you you build the ringworld?

[Ruatha]

Planet boms don't work on Ring/Sphere worlds as it's not really a planet.
And there is still a sun in the system so you can't make another one, you can only make a sun if there is no sun already in the system.

[Taera]

re: destroying ringworld or sphereworld - you actually can do it but you need to mod a new component into the game with appropriate settings. When it is destroyed, i think someone said you get a single asteroid field and thats it. not sure tho.

[Q]

Originally posted by Taera:
re: destroying ringworld or sphereworld - you actually can do it but you need to mod a new component into the game with appropriate settings. When it is destroyed, i think someone said you get a single asteroid field and thats it. not sure tho.

You are absolutely right: you get a huge asteroid field.

[Gwaihir]

Originally posted by Ruatha:
Planet boms don't work on Ring/Sphere worlds as it's not really a planet.
And there is still a sun in the system so you can't make another one, you can only make a sun if there is no sun already in the system.

Huh? for every other sun-dependent mechanism, the Ring/Sphere is not a sun. But you still can't use a sun maker? Arrgh, where's my ringworld test scenario when i need it.

[ May 01, 2003, 06:06: Message edited by: Gwaihir ]

[Phoenix-D]

"Huh? for every other sun-dependent mechanism, the Ring/Sphere is not a sun. But you still can't use a sun maker?"

I can confirm this. think about it- if it wasn't this way you could build an endless number of ringworlds.

Phoenix-D