Where can I make a star?

[Taz-in-Space]

SO - If I do build one, CAN I now build ANOTHER star since the system NOW has no star?
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I don't think so.

Darn...

(Taz slouches away muttering:
Darn Universe Limiting Laws - DULL thats what it is...
Imagine 255 systems with 100+ sphereworlds each...
Now THAT would have been an Epic Game!... )

[Spoo]

Imagine 255 systems with 100+ sphereworlds each...
Now THAT would have been an Epic Game!... )

Couldn't you make this in the map editor? (Assuming that you don't go insane from adding 25500 sphere worlds.)

[Slick]

From the FAQ:

4.9.3 Ring- and sphereworlds count as both a star, and not a star. They count as not-a-star for purposes of planet building, solar panels, and star destroyers. They count as a star for purposes of building new stars (i.e.: you can't). (Suicide Junkie)


Slick.

[Taz-in-Space]

Hmmm, 25500 worlds at average of 10 sec per world.
255000 sec = approx 2.95 days.

Taz suddenly finds himself less enchanted with his 'brilliant idea'!...

[Fyron]

You could make that with custom system files. Change the Sphereworld to be a regular planet, rather than a Sphwereworld. Add a few hundred to a system type in SystemTypes.txt, edit a quadrant in QuadrantTypes.txt to have that system, and make a map! Just make sure to generate it in-game, not the map editor.

[Executron]

Coming back into topic

I once *when i was preety much a newbie at SE* **not that i am now an expert of smtgh ** wanted to build a sphereworld around a star. I checked and found with amazement what i couldn't fit those damn cables ony ship... So istead of building lots of SSYs and sending them around a star and buidling Starbases with components for the spehereworld here's what i did. I build a star destroyer, a star creator and a planet creator, i destroyed the respective system, build a star right on top of some asteriods, created from the asteroids a planet and taa-daa... A planet round a star on which i built a SY and significantly shortnend the build time of all those bases *and i skipped the building of all those SSYs*

And i felt very proud of my achivement

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Executron:
I build a star destroyer, a star creator and a planet creator, i destroyed the respective system, build a star right on top of some asteriods, created from the asteroids a planet and taa-daa... A planet round a star on which i built a SY and significantly shortnend the build time of all those bases *and i skipped the building of all those SSYs*

Many problems with this idea. First, you still need the bases. No matter if you build them with base space yard or a facility space yard, you have to build them in a starbase hull. Unless you are talking about a mod. And it takes about a dozen space yards to make a ringworld, and about two dozen to make a sphereworld. And it can only build one at at time. Your facility is going to take longer to build a dozen starbases one at at time then 12 pase space yards each building one starbase would take. Unless, again, you are using some mod.

Also, I don't think this idea would work to begin with. Because I am fairly certain the game only allows you to create a star in the center sector. I could be wrong about this Last point though. It's been a while since I have tried it.

[Executron]

Originally posted by geoschmo:

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Originally posted by Executron:
I build a star destroyer, a star creator and a planet creator, i destroyed the respective system, build a star right on top of some asteriods, created from the asteroids a planet and taa-daa... A planet round a star on which i built a SY and significantly shortnend the build time of all those bases *and i skipped the building of all those SSYs*

Many problems with this idea. First, you still need the bases. No matter if you build them with base space yard or a facility space yard, you have to build them in a starbase hull. Unless you are talking about a mod. And it takes about a dozen space yards to make a ringworld, and about two dozen to make a sphereworld. And it can only build one at at time. Your facility is going to take longer to build a dozen starbases one at at time then 12 pase space yards each building one starbase would take. Unless, again, you are using some mod.

Also, I don't think this idea would work to begin with. Because I am fairly certain the game only allows you to create a star in the center sector. I could be wrong about this Last point though. It's been a while since I have tried it.

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lol you kinda berried me with that one
Yeah i would have to agree now that it's much more efficent in doing it the old fashion way...
But i am still very proud of that early achivement..

As far as the building of the star not in the center of star if i remember correctly that wasn't a problem

[MaxKaladin]

You don't have to build a star in the center of the system. I found this our when I was trying to figure out how to make stars (I've only had the game for a couple of weeks). I would pop into a system, make a star thinking I needed to be WAY away from the middle because, after all, a STAR is going off. That's a heck of a boom! Well, I got nothing and couldn't figure out why. Finally, I realized I was creating them in the same sector as my warp point and they were being hidden under the warp point graphic so I didn't see them right away.

Anyway, I figured out what I needed to know about where I could build stars and now have four sphereworlds in my empire. Frankly, I see little use for these things because they take so much technology that it seems like the game will be all but won by the time you have one. But, perhaps I'm wrong.

[narf poit chez BOOM]

prestige, mostly. Someone who's more awake and could actually find it could probably post a funny link to a wiki page about that.