Ringworld and Sphereworld Construction Questions

charlieverse · #1 February 7th, 2002, 04:27 AM

Ok, I was messing around and created a ship with 10 M ton capability (I now realize that I need one with 33 M ton capability and to limit it to 1 emgine {so it cannot be used in battle} in order to allow me to create a ringworld with only one ship....) Anyways, I had to create 9 more of these monster ships for the storage capability to create the sphereworld, and went to the center of my homesystem to create the sphereworld. I went into Stellar Manipulation and went to Construct and then selected Sphereworld and....Presto!!! a sphereworld was created, and all my ships were lost. AAARRRRGGGGHHHHH! Is the game designed to do this, and if so, how on Earth are you going to create a Sphereworld (20 K tons of this, 20 K tons of that and the generators, plus associated engines, master comps, etc's, etc's) Can you create the sphereworld without losing that huge investment in ships? Thanks for any assistance. Charlie.

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Puke · #2 February 7th, 2002, 04:33 AM

nope, you loose it all. the way you are supposed to do it is with construction ships that build starbases at the site. you dont loose the construction ships, but you loose the starbases.

charlieverse · #3 February 7th, 2002, 04:41 AM

Okay, (this will show my "newbie" status at SE IV but I will do it anyways. How do you build a construction ship for deep space? And how do you get the needed supplies to where you are building the Starbase, Ringworld, Sphereworld, etc.?

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Puke · #4 February 7th, 2002, 04:48 AM

there is a component called a spaceyard, and you can add it to a ship or base. this will let you construct things with that ship. then move the ship to where the star is, and have it start building starbases with the sphereworld components on the bases. send 11 construction ships and you can build all the starbases you will need for a ringworld at the same time.

charlieverse · #5 February 7th, 2002, 04:57 AM

Ok, thanks for the help. I see the math here, I need to build 21 total (1 with generator, 10 with cable, 10 with plating) to build the Sphereworld. I have to say, it is a huge investment in resources, but to get 240 facilities to start, and to have the massive population capabilities, WOW!.

Thanks for all of the help. (now to spend the next few months on a real game to try this out...)

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Egregius · #6 February 7th, 2002, 01:13 PM

However, unless you have 11 construction ships, you need to mothball the starbases untill you're ready to build to avoid the unaffordable maintenance. However to unmothball costs heaps in itself.

I think I'm gonna mod some -100% maintenance in HDCs and the plating and make them halfcost to make them worth it remotely.

Anyway is there a way to get the AI to make sphere and ringworlds given they have enough resources?