Sphere Worlds in Populated systems - Newbie Question

[Perrin]

Ok I have not had the guts to try this...

Is there an adverse affect if a sphere world is built around the only sun in a system with populated worlds?

I mean theoretically you are blocking all light from the Sun so do the planets become uninhabitable?

Edit: And what about ring worlds? same question.

[ August 20, 2002, 17:22: Message edited by: Perrin ]

[Puke]

nah, through the miricales of high-tech translucent concrete, its alright.

no adverse effects.

[geoschmo]

The only "adverse" effect is that you can no longer create planets out of the asteroid fields in the system. If you want to make planets out of asteroids you have to do that before you make the ring/sphereworld.

Geoschmo

[Perrin]

Originally posted by Puke:
nah, through the miricales of high-tech translucent concrete

ROTFL

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Perrin:
Ok I have not had the guts to try this...

Is there an adverse affect if a sphere world is built around the only sun in a system with populated worlds?

I mean theoretically you are blocking all light from the Sun so do the planets become uninhabitable?

Edit: And what about ring worlds? same question.

Nah, the solid sphere still lets out practically all the sun's energy. It's just seriously red-shifted to the infared. Nothing a technologically advanced race can't handle.

[Ed Kolis]

And if you destroy a sphereworld (or ringworld) the star doesn't come back, right? (Even though in the ringworld picture you can see a little star inside! )

[geoschmo]

Originally posted by Ed Kolis:
And if you destroy a sphereworld (or ringworld) the star doesn't come back, right? (Even though in the ringworld picture you can see a little star inside! )

Correct. In the stock game you can't destroy a ring/sphereworld. If you mod the game to give you a big enough tectonic bomb to destroy one of these, the result is a huge asteroid field and no star. You can in fact make a huge planet out of the asteroids and create a star, make a ringworld out of the star, destroy it, repeat, repeat, repeat, (How many huge worlds do you want with your sphereworlds sir? )

Geo

[capnq]

Say, this could be the explanation of that report of a system with planets, but no star.

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by minipol:
i have never created a sphereworld before. i know there's some information in the faq about it. is there anothere place where i can find more info on how exactely one creates a sphere world or a ring world and what the difference between the two is, how to create a planet from asteroid fields (i didn't even know it was possible!)
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[minipol]

i have never created a sphereworld before. i know there's some information in the faq about it. is there anothere place where i can find more info on how exactely one creates a sphere world or a ring world and what the difference between the two is, how to create a planet from asteroid fields (i didn't even know it was possible!)
this game just keeps getting better and better!