Creating stars

Guille · #1 March 23rd, 2003, 02:10 AM

Is there any way to create a star in a system when there is already one?

Guille · #2 March 23rd, 2003, 02:14 AM

I mean editing something of the game to make it possible.

oleg · #3 March 23rd, 2003, 02:38 AM

No, it is impossible. One of the reason is crystalline races can build multiple suns in the system and overproduce anybody using solar plants.

Another reason is "realism" - when star is created, it uses all available matter in the system. Nothing is left for another. Existence of binary systems can be explain that they were creted practically simultaneously, splitting the matter.

Ed Kolis · #4 March 23rd, 2003, 05:25 AM

Too bad you can't turn nebulas into stars - that's how they form in real life, after all... make those nebula systems useful for something other than stealth bases! (then again, where would you get the planets?)

Taera · #5 March 23rd, 2003, 06:58 AM

well you can destroy the nebulae and create a star there... but if you're there it'd be more efficient to just make a shortcut via warp-point opener.

Taera · #6 March 23rd, 2003, 06:59 AM

it'd be most cool if nebulae systems would in fact have something hidden under them. i think that was one of the original feature promises/requests.

edit: typo

[ March 23, 2003, 04:59: Message edited by: Taera ]

Ed Kolis · #7 March 23rd, 2003, 07:48 AM

There used to be a bug where you could get planets in a nebula... that was cool, especially if your homeworld was there!

Guille · #8 March 23rd, 2003, 06:14 PM

I see. So I can't create more than 100 stars to make the biggest colony in sphereworlds. Too bad.

PvK · #9 March 23rd, 2003, 09:16 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by Taera:
it'd be most cool if nebulae systems would in fact have something hidden under them. i think that was one of the original feature promises/requests.

You can probably mod this, and/or use the map editor.

You can also create storms on top of your existing planets during play.

PvK

Andr�s · #10 March 24th, 2003, 04:53 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
There used to be a bug where you could get planets in a nebula... that was cool, especially if your homeworld was there!

I think that can still happen when using a loaded map and random location.

And IIRC once you create a shpereworld, the star ceases to exist

so then you can make a new one