Giant Stars?

[Fyron]

Originally posted by Arkcon:

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Originally posted by geoschmo:

There is also a way to move planets/asteroids, but you have to be using a Version before 1.78. Basically it's exploiting a stellar manip bug that was fixed with that patch.

Geoschmo

Huh? Wha? What was this bug/exploit and how did it work? That would hve been cool.

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It had to be done in Simultaneous Movement games. I don't recall the exact procedure, but it was somehting like this:
1) Move a ship with a Tectonic Bomb over a planet
2) Tell it to move to another location
3) Give it the Destroy Planet order

Numbers 2 and 3 might need to be in the other order; I don't remember exactly.

The planet will be destroyed, but the asteroid field will be created whereever the ship ends up after 1 turn of movement. So, you could then rebuild the planet, and essentially move it. This resulted from a glitch in the way that various orders were executed during the simultaneous movement phases. I hear it was fixed in 1.78, so you'd have to use an older Version of SE4 to try it out.