Sphere Worlds in Populated systems - Newbie Question

[Perrin]

Originally posted by Puke:
nah, through the miricales of high-tech translucent concrete

ROTFL

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Perrin:
Ok I have not had the guts to try this...

Is there an adverse affect if a sphere world is built around the only sun in a system with populated worlds?

I mean theoretically you are blocking all light from the Sun so do the planets become uninhabitable?

Edit: And what about ring worlds? same question.

Nah, the solid sphere still lets out practically all the sun's energy. It's just seriously red-shifted to the infared. Nothing a technologically advanced race can't handle.

[Ed Kolis]

And if you destroy a sphereworld (or ringworld) the star doesn't come back, right? (Even though in the ringworld picture you can see a little star inside! )

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
And if you destroy a sphereworld (or ringworld) the star doesn't come back, right? (Even though in the ringworld picture you can see a little star inside! )

Correct. In the stock game you can't destroy a ring/sphereworld. If you mod the game to give you a big enough tectonic bomb to destroy one of these, the result is a huge asteroid field and no star. You can in fact make a huge planet out of the asteroids and create a star, make a ringworld out of the star, destroy it, repeat, repeat, repeat, (How many huge worlds do you want with your sphereworlds sir? )

Geo

[capnq]

Say, this could be the explanation of that report of a system with planets, but no star.

[minipol]

i have never created a sphereworld before. i know there's some information in the faq about it. is there anothere place where i can find more info on how exactely one creates a sphere world or a ring world and what the difference between the two is, how to create a planet from asteroid fields (i didn't even know it was possible!)
this game just keeps getting better and better!

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by minipol:
i have never created a sphereworld before. i know there's some information in the faq about it. is there anothere place where i can find more info on how exactely one creates a sphere world or a ring world and what the difference between the two is, how to create a planet from asteroid fields (i didn't even know it was possible!)
this game just keeps getting better and better!

Might I suggest you click this link for a recent breakdown.

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