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Originally posted by CW:
BeeDee, do you mean this is going to take 5 years plus the construction time for the components? I also gathered that all the starbases containing the components must be built in the same square where the sun is, is that true?
I meant that (if I recall correctly) the Sphereworld Placement Generator starbase will take 5 years (50 turns) to construct using a ship or base mounted Shipyard III. The plates and cables each take only 2.5 years, so start building the placement generator ASAP and worry about getting constructors in to build the remaining components later.
Personally, I like to build 21 BSYs to construct these things rather than using shipyard ships. Less maintenance to support them, and afterward you can use them to quickly pump out the vast number of defensive units the sphereworld can hold while you use the sphereworld's capacity to build facilities (note, filling a sphereworld with monolith facilities will take 6 years at best (assuming you've transported in a large population), so a mix of the specialzed resource facilities may be better.
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Strategically speaking I really don't see a point to build this monster, it is more like a monument than anything else.
Exactly. I kinda wish it was quicker and easier to build these things so that they actually made sense from a practical perspective, but on the other hand the way they are now they're even more "special."
Might be interesting to play a game where the victory condition is to build and fully develop (fill all facility slots) a Sphereworld. You'd have to balance your economy between destroying other players' attempts to build them and building your own. Or take a riskier approach, help someone build a sphereworld and then try to capture it when they're done.
Edit: Aha! Corporal BeeDee is educated about the use of boldface and blockquote on this forum!
[This message has been edited by BeeDee10 (edited 24 July 2001).]
Re: Ringworlds and such
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