Can some atmosphere be changed to none ?

[DirectorTsaarx]

Should work on rock & ice planets; but not on gas giants. Game does not allow a planet of "Gas Giant/No Atmosphere".

[Triumvir Emphy]

it should convert to whatever is your population atmosphere

[Sinapus]

Would be amusing if had 'none' as your atmosphere and you built a converter on a gas giant planet and when it was finished the giant would vanish.




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[Sinapus]

Would be amusing if had 'none' as your atmosphere and you built a converter on a gas giant planet and when it was finished the giant would vanish.


(There aren't any AI races that have 'none' as atmosphere, so this shouldn't be too crippling for AI players.)

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[This message has been edited by Sinapus (edited 16 February 2001).]

[Commander G]

Players who take 'none' for their atmosphere ought to be able to colonize Astroids since they have fewer planets than any other race design. Huge planets with no atmostphere are extremely rare. Usually no atmosphere worlds are small. It looks from the Planets.txt file that they intended to allow colonizing astroids. It must be something they decided not to implement or they have not gotten around to it yet.

With remote mining being so costly, the only thing astroids are good for is turning into planets late in the game.

[Triumvir Emphy]

the reason to pick none would be to handicap yourself while playing a weaker oponent.

[Nyx]

IF you look in the component's files, there's an image for a colony on a gas giant with no atmosphere. No joke, it's really in there.

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[Tomgs]

Actually there are a lot of "none" planets out there you just call them moons . A no atmosphere start isn't that much of a handicap really. I started doing it for that reason but the time you save with atmosphere converters in the mid game makes up for a little worse start. And almost every system with worlds will have at least one moon and usually 4 or 5. Thats more than most atmosphere types. Sure they are tiny but they are all over. Great for advance military bases and resupply depots. The biggest handicap is that you will get no Gas giant planets with your atmosphere. That is only a problem untill you conquer your first other empire then you will have other atmosphere types to breathe. The Neutral expansion pack from Universal shipyards includes a neutral player with "none" as its atmosphere type and you can easily mod the atmosphere type that any AI has. I changed quite a few default atmosphere types in my game because the overwelming majority of downloadable races have oxygen/rock as their HW type. It seems to balance out the races somewhat if all of them aren't competing for the same planets at he beginning.

[This message has been edited by Tomgs (edited 17 February 2001).]

[alasyr]

Can atmosphere tpye other than none (methane, oxygen, hydrogen, carbon dioxide) be changed using atmopheric converters to no atmosphere (none) ?.

[pathfinder]

don't believe so. In my experience they have always changed "other" atmosphere to "my" atmosphere.