Ringworld/Sphere World

[Taqwus]

Hrm. It makes one wonder whether each ship/base should have a pointer to its original design, or at least its initial costs, and use *that* as a basis for refitting eligibility. That would end the stranger refit chains. Alternately, slow it down by stipulating that components (better, whole ships) must be repaired before being refitted...

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-- The thing that goes bump in the night

[Drake]

quote:

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Originally posted by rdouglass:
Can you do that now? I thought the 50% upgrade thing prevented you from doing that...

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you have to create an intermediate starbase for the first retrofit.

[Claymore]

OK....so why build a ring world ? what is so special that it would motivate you to build one ?

[Sinapus]

Why build a ringworld?

Um... because you can?

[telekrtal]

quote: "OK....so why build a ring world ? what is so special that it would motivate you to build one ?"
answer: so you have enogh room for all your slaves to work in *grins evilly*


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Telek R'tal

[Suicide Junkie]

Well, you do have to pay 10% or so to rip out components, and pay 70-80% of the build cost of the components you put in, when you retrofit.

Retrofitting more than once means you pay an arm and a leg to do it.

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As for why build a sphereworld?

To get a new planet, with 200 facility spaces, and 64 billion people capacity!

[alasyr]

If you are adding (reaping) components which total resources doesn't exceed the 1/3 of current value design you are actually paying less (20% less at least) than you would by building the damn thing.The only retrofit that cost more than buid is the Last one as the RW(SW) placement, cable and plating components cost 3*100K, 3*50K respectively which is quite more than 1/3 of Last design.