Ringworld PDB - Page 2

Puke · #11 February 1st, 2001, 01:04 AM

man, what we really need to do is make the huge weapon that takes up an entire world and can bLast things from sectors away, then put a warp point generator in front of it to let it destroy things all over the quadrant. make the star-destroying-cannon and detonate solar systems from remote.

oh yeah, its the cheese.

Tomgs · #12 February 1st, 2001, 03:10 AM

How about a weapon that destroys the galaxy slowly from the center out. It takes hundreds of turns and you have to fight your way through the systems as your home systems are destroyed one after the other.

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E. Albright · #13 February 1st, 2001, 06:12 PM

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Originally posted by Tomgs:
How about a weapon that destroys the galaxy slowly from the center out. It takes hundreds of turns and you have to fight your way through the systems as your home systems are destroyed one after the other. .

Yes, well, this wouldn't be any fun unless (until?) we get true Base Ships that will allow for populations to grow, etc. Then as the terrified Centerist Cosmic Arc fleets flee the collapsing galactic center, the Rim "civilizations" who started the whole thing can dispatch hunter armadas to harry and slaughter them on the fly...

BKrani · #14 February 2nd, 2001, 02:02 AM

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Originally posted by ealbright:
Yes, well, this wouldn't be any fun unless (until?) we get true Base Ships that will allow for populations to grow, etc

Or have the facility to mount enourmous sub-light drives on our planets and fly them off in a rosetta pattern.

Miles · #15 February 2nd, 2001, 02:13 AM

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When the bug fixing starts to settle down, we'll have to press for more cool "features" like a weapon facility with some unique power -- maybe the ability to fire on the strategic map at targets in another sector? [/b]

Ohhh Yeah! What this game needs is a really BIG gun. How about this:
- Ring Worlds (RW) and Sphere Worlds (SW) can fire huge bolts of energy. (How does the energy get out of the SW? (Shut up!))
- It hits and destroys a sector and it's contents, leaving behind a cooked planet or a new storm.
- There would have to be some kind of recharge interval.
- Maybe a SW can shoot at targets in another system?
- The energy can't travel thru a warp gate, but it does travel at light speed. It reaches an adjacent system in X years (X=distance in light years.)
- A looong distance shot always hits some sector in the targetted system. The chance of hitting the targetted sector is an inverse function of distance.
- Planetary/System shields can provide protection.

Cybes · #16 February 2nd, 2001, 11:20 AM

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Originally posted by BKrani:
Or have the facility to mount enourmous sub-light drives on our planets and fly them off in a rosetta pattern.

you're a niven fan too, i see.

do we get transfer disk technology too?

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"Just think of it as Evolution in action" - 'Oath of Fealty', by Larry Niven & Jerry Pournelle.

Markavian · #17 February 3rd, 2001, 04:22 PM

Hey, if you are going to build an entire sphere world, you wouldn't mass produce 100,000 or whatever of Hyper Density cables and Graveituff plating without a second thought!!

What you would do is plan the sphere world construction for many months, prehaps even years! You'd work out where cities would be placed, where industrial locations would be, you'd design them into the planet. Making a sphere around a sun (most probably hollow) you could easily build in 'gaps' into the surface of the planet to let energy be released. . .

. . . research the right tech, focus the energy coming off the sun through about 100 vents a few hundred killometers wide each, (think how big stars are) and fire.

Now, your not going to tell me that a ship with (a max of) 1100kt of space is large enough to survive such a bLast are you?

Planets may also get destroyed by such a weapon. . .