My Star is going Nova!!! - Page 2

Markavian · #11 February 5th, 2001, 07:13 PM

Bit more maths here. . .

Okay, you find out you have 1.0 year, 10 turns, till your star goes nova.

How long does it take to build 11 Starbases, around one star. By my reckonings teh 11th, and most important star base still takes 1.4 Years to build. By which time we are all dead.

I think that MM should have definitely included a way to neutralise such events, and It'd also be ncie to have that 'Your sun will explode in about 5 weeks time, please run away killing billions of lives. . .

Tomgs · #12 February 5th, 2001, 08:26 PM

quote:
Originally posted by Markavians:
Bit more maths here. . .

Okay, you find out you have 1.0 year, 10 turns, till your star goes nova.

How long does it take to build 11 Starbases, around one star. By my reckonings teh 11th, and most important star base still takes 1.4 Years to build. By which time we are all dead.

I think there is a misprint there unless you know something I don't. The Ringworld starbase takes 5.4 years to build and even with 2 emergency build periods it only goes down to 3.9 years. Of course after the next patch changing emergency build you will only be able to build it in 4.4 years with emergency build.

Of course these numbers might change a bit if you take the bonuses to build rate in your game set-up.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 05 February 2001).]

Daynarr · #13 February 5th, 2001, 09:37 PM

You could edit the events.txt file that contains the event that causes a sun to go nova. All you have to do is change the following line:

Time Till Completion := 30

to something like

Time Till Completion := 100

and change the message displayed for the event to show that it will happen in 10 years instead of 3. That will give you enough time to build a sphereworld or ringworld around the star.

Sinapus · #14 February 5th, 2001, 09:49 PM

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Originally posted by SirDarwin:
If you are sufficently advanced, you may build a ring/sphere world. I believe this negates those effects.

Yes, but it takes over 3 years to build the ringworld placement generator, so it is something to build -BEFORE- you get that warning.

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dmm · #15 February 6th, 2001, 08:52 PM

If you're REALLY nasty, trade it to your main competitor for some nice planets of his. Make the deal so sweet that he can't resist -- two or three planets for one. You'll still be set back, but not as badly as you might have been, and you'll set your competitor back also so it won't hurt as bad, relatively.

Atrocities · #16 February 6th, 2001, 08:56 PM

You want to hear a real bad story about this? I started a game, and a few turns later, my star exploded. My system died, and I got this nice little

"YOU LOSE"

message. I was not pleased.

Comar · #17 February 6th, 2001, 09:02 PM

I know it's not nice, but that is so funny. Better to happen then than after you have built up the system and put a lot of time into it.

Markavian · #18 February 6th, 2001, 09:34 PM

My mistake on time limit for building stuff.

Then again, when you've got a Temporal Space Yard Component like I do. . .

I've also got an Organic shipyard, Crystalline shipyards, Radioactives Shipyards, and a Religious Space yard. . . but I can't think of a special ability suitable for it. . . maybe I'll give it a weapon as well as being able to build.

I think it should be possible to build smaller construct worlds as well! If you can build one 'that' large, surely it'd be possible to make smaller projects first. . .