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Old August 8th, 2001, 08:35 AM

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Default Create planets... don\'t make sense!

My planet creator ship created a planet which carries the a rather interesting comment:

"Medium sized planet which appears to be the home of long-dead lifeforms."

HUH!?! The guys in the charting department must have drank too much cheap stuff Last night, that planet is brand new!

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Old August 8th, 2001, 08:44 AM
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Default Re: Create planets... don\'t make sense!

Maybe the asteroids were inhibited and you killed them all! You Monster !!!
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Old August 8th, 2001, 09:48 AM
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'appears' being the operative word. perhaps the gravitational condenser operator was feeling artistic.
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Default Re: Create planets... don\'t make sense!

Hith Hiker's guide quote springs to mind:

"I designed all the twiddly bits around Norway. Won an award, you know..."

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Default Re: Create planets... don\'t make sense!

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My planet creator ship created a planet which carries the a rather interesting comment:

"Medium sized planet which appears to be the home of long-dead lifeforms."

HUH!?! The guys in the charting department must have drank too much cheap stuff Last night, that planet is brand new!

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And look at the animation when you create a planet. It's always an EARTH-like planet, then it shifts to whatever type the game has randomly selected. Wouldn't it make a bit more sense to have a no-atmosphere planet as the default animation? Then the atmosphere could appear Last? And the Ringworld has only one image with one color star... there should be at least one image for each color of star.

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Old August 8th, 2001, 08:27 PM
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And the Ringworld has only one image with one color star... there should be at least one image for each color of star.



not to mention atmosphere type. the inside of the ring always looks like a rock-oxy

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Actually, I think it might be possible to create custom animations of events (I think). I would a have sworn I saw the tile animation for Warp Points opening and closing.
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The pictures are in Pictures/Stellar; I'm not certain where the calls to those pictures are, nor do I know how to set the game up to choose the "right" picture for type/atmosphere/star color (for ringworlds) of created planet. Maybe the trick is to just remove the Last frame of the create planet picture (wouldn't work for ringworlds) and let the game fill in the "right" picture as it does now, but without seeing the rock/oxy planet first.
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Perhaps im just dumb....but i just spend all my day figuring out how to make a sphereworld (and ring world) cant get those 2000KT cores, cables and plating out to the star.

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Default Re: Create planets... don\'t make sense!

Build a space yard ship (cruiser or larger), fly out to the star, and build starbases with the SM components you require.

There are many threads on how to speed up the process, and/or save money, but the SYS is what you need to get started.

Be sure to build all 11 or 21 starbases in the same square as the star, too.
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