Lord Deependra Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 A few turns ago, Pete said he was going to look at extending some weapon tech lines. I was wondering if anyone had seen anything new yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfouasnon Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 That new Type E Spinal Meson Accelerator will just curl your toes....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted September 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 That new Type E Spinal Meson Accelerator will just curl your toes....... As long as it just curls toes and doesn't blow up ships, I'm happy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfouasnon Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 We shall see ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hobknob Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 Weapon lines are still coming, but not until they can all come out at once. Nothing so far so you haven't missed anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rfouasnon Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 I wonder if Cao Cao is still around....he had some wonderful insights on the going ons at RTG....... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted September 21, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 I wonder if Cao Cao is still around....he had some wonderful insights on the going ons at RTG....... And they are all completely true, for a certain value of true. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Carpenter Posted September 21, 2009 Report Share Posted September 21, 2009 My new Stellar Converter is nice. You need it for ring worlds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted September 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 My new Stellar Converter is nice. You need it for ring worlds. If you know, and without asking you to divulge any secrets, I was wondering if you could give a hint as to what a Ringworld does for you. In real life, a Ringworld would give living room (which we don't need in Supernova) and allow you to capture more of the sun's energy. Does it generate power or allow the construction of better solar power stations? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Carpenter Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 You destroy all the planets in a system, and build a ringworld, which combines the components of all the destroyed worlds into one world. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted September 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 You destroy all the planets in a system, and build a ringworld, which combines the components of all the destroyed worlds into one world. So far, that doesn't sound like a big plus, and I can think of a few negatives. But I'm sure there is a good in-game reason, other than the simple fact that its cool Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gary Carpenter Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 ANY system that has planets, make a world zero attrition for your empire, and get what ever resources are on the planets, IE no missing iron, no missing shenn stones, no missing anything. Perfect! At least where there are lots of planets and moons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sakarissa Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 That does seem nifty. One of my empires has actually researched Ringworld and Dyson Sphere. However, the INSTs for them both has eluded me. One question in regards to Ringworld construction: If done in a system with population and buildings (IE a colony and/or HW), do they get transferred or destroyed? Sakarissa The Circle Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cestvel Posted September 22, 2009 Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 That does seem nifty. One of my empires has actually researched Ringworld and Dyson Sphere. However, the INSTs for them both has eluded me. One question in regards to Ringworld construction: If done in a system with population and buildings (IE a colony and/or HW), do they get transferred or destroyed? Sakarissa The Circle The ANZ for the MDD needed to destroy a planet states, that it does not work on populated planets. So you need to remove the pop beforehand. Only Asteroid Fields can be merged to a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere. So one wonders if one would loose some of the useful resources only available on planets with atmosphere. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Deependra Posted September 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted September 22, 2009 That does seem nifty. One of my empires has actually researched Ringworld and Dyson Sphere. However, the INSTs for them both has eluded me. One question in regards to Ringworld construction: If done in a system with population and buildings (IE a colony and/or HW), do they get transferred or destroyed? Sakarissa The Circle The ANZ for the MDD needed to destroy a planet states, that it does not work on populated planets. So you need to remove the pop beforehand. Only Asteroid Fields can be merged to a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere. So one wonders if one would loose some of the useful resources only available on planets with atmosphere. So, you Gate out the population, lift off the gate crew with a colony ship, bomb all the planets into asteroids, assemble them into a Ringworld or Dyson Sphere, rebuild the gate and Gate the population back in. Now you have one "planet" with the combined resources of the former planets, assuming that destroying a planet doesn't wipe out the grain and meat. I can see a couple of downsides:- Losing Gas Giants for skimming Making the world a target (an enemy scout just needs to System Scan to find your population) I wonder what a Dyson Sphere does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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