Giant Stars?

[Priest of Discord]

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]

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

[Priest of Discord]

Originally posted by Imperator Fyron:
Look in settings.txt for the Pop Modifiers. It will tell you.

Hopefully I am reading this wrong, but it only boosts production 100 percent? A 10 billion pop planet boosts 90! What is the point of building a sphereworld if it is that big a waste?

[Fyron]

You are reading that correctly.

SWs have little point in a normal game. If you can devote the time and effort to build 1 (or more), you could easily build war ships and end the game anyways.

SWs have tons of slots for facilities. Try building one at a chokepoint system and moving all the warp points onto it's sector, and then heavily fortifying it.

[Priest of Discord]

Ahhh, I see. Thanks for the help!

[Pax]

Also, in some mods, sphereworlds have more of a point (mods that have population modifiers high enough for sphereworlds to use effectively).

P&N (Pirates and Nomads) is a good one for this. With a Temporal / Advanced Storage race, I was able to get a 77B population on one sphereworld ... and SpaceYard rates of 117K/117K/117K ... !!

On a semirelated topic ... as far as modding planet sizes, does anyone know the theoretical maximum number of facilities a given world, ringworld, or sphereworld could be assigned ... ?

[Fyron]

Possibly 999. That, or 256^2-1. Or, so completely random arbitrary number.

[ October 20, 2002, 08:42: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]