Ring and Sphere worlds

[Indaglo]

i just dont understand how to make them, the only ships that can carry the components needed for these generated worlds are starbases but they cannot have engines, so how do you go about moving your plating and other components onto a star?

[Captain Kwok]

Good Sir,

You build some ships with space yard components on them, so they can construct ships/bases anywhere you want. Then move to a star and begin to build your starbases - and it will take many of them - not to mention a really long time!

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[DirectorTsaarx]

The smallest ship that can carry a spaceyard is a Cruiser; so you can either:

1) Build 11 (or 21 for a sphereworld) Cruiser-sized spaceyard ships, send them to a star & build the various starbase-sized components (BTW - I'd send one ship there to start the ringworld/sphereworld generator first, since it takes almost twice as long to build as the other components).

2) Send 1 Cruiser-sized spaceyard ship, build a space station with a spaceyard component (lower maintenance than the cruiser Version); then start building more space station spaceyards, which can then be used to build the ringworld/sphereworld components.

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[Magus38]

These answers are correct. In the interest of not starting new threads when we have so amply dealt with such topics already, it might be a good idea in the future to simply search this forum for information on Ring or Sphere world contruction, or whatever else you are looking for, before posting your questions. This way we keep these answers centralized - making it easier to use the forum as an unofficial compendium of player knowledge.

This said, let me give you an example of the time commitment necessary to build a Ringworld. 11 ships each with a Spaceyard III component, will take 5.4 years in total to build the 11 stabases housing the needed components (assuming no racial bonuses). The starbase containing the Ringworld Generator will take the full 5.4 years while the Starbases containing the cables and gravity plating take 2.9 years... so you can conceivably plan out something of a production line if you have several target stars.

While on the subject, I suggest a modification to the Sphereworld placement rules. It would be cool if you could not build a sphereworld in system with friendly colonies (as it should theoretically cut off most of the solar energy to the other planets). This would be more realistic imo, plus systems with stars, but no other real estate would suddenly become more valuable (with Stellar manipulation this list would include BH systems, nebulae systems, etc.)

[This message has been edited by Magus38 (edited 01 November 2001).]

[Indaglo]

thank you very much, and i will check next time in the forums before i have a question