Giant Stars?

Fyron · #1 October 16th, 2002, 09:22 PM

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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.

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.

Arkcon · #2 October 16th, 2002, 10:26 PM

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Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
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.

Oh that's too funny, I'm sorry I didn't hear about it back then. If I could move planets to nebula's that would have been funny.

Fyron · #3 October 16th, 2002, 11:16 PM

Or move every planet in your empire into 1 sector, where you have constructed a Sphereworld.

Skulky · #4 October 17th, 2002, 05:28 AM

Asteroid moving and the new treaty system suggested in another thread, alogn witha DEDICATED SCENARIO editor are way up on my list of features i want/need.

mlmbd · #5 October 18th, 2002, 01:37 AM

Hope that Asteriod/Planet engine comes to be at some point. Would be nice to move a planet here an asteriod belt there.

[ October 18, 2002, 00:38: Message edited by: mlmbd ]

Priest of Discord · #6 October 20th, 2002, 06:18 AM

Hey, I'm fairly new to the game and I was wondering about something when I was playing earlier today. In the regular gold game, unmodded(not-counting the TDM-pack, because those are just AI files, right?) how much of a production bonus does a sphereworld give you once it's fully populated? It can fit what, 64 billion people in it? I imagine thats a hell of a boost for a advanced shipyard, espically for a temporal tech race.

Fyron · #7 October 20th, 2002, 06:38 AM

Look in settings.txt for the Pop Modifiers. It will tell you.