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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">BTW, I think I should let you all know I'm going to do this. I'm planning my first Proportions Ringworld. I have the tech, I think I have the economy (two homeworlds conquered, two more on the way, extensive colonisation) and I have the will.

All this against the AI, of course...

Once I've colonised the ringworld, I plan to build a spaceyard there and then begin work on a Cultural Centre. (Are there any other facilities i should build first to decrease production time? I have no special techs so I can't build cloning centres or temporal SYs, and I can put my urban pac fac on another world in the same system.)

All the while I'll be ferrying a massive (ie depopulate 3 entire homeworlds) population onto it. I've already started redrawing the warp-points to make this process easier. I'm also wondering whether it would be more efficient to have a stack of starliner-worldships (which take ~20million pop but have a max speed of 2) or a fleet of smaller, faster pop transports that will only take a few million each, but can make several journies in the same time.

Anyway, Once I get the population to 10-20 billion I'm hoping a CC will be achievble in my lifetime.

Wish me luck...

[ July 17, 2003, 11:09: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif Thanks Deccan.

I've just had a thought- is there anything (I mean, you know, apart from the mind-bogglingly crippling costs involved) to prevent me from using worldships to carry the ringworld components? That way I could use my homeworld spaceyards to get them built quicker. (although I'd have to pay maintenance on them while they crawled to their destination)

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Not that I can think of. Makes good sense, if you can afford it. You probably have lots of remote mining going on?

How many homeworlds did you start with?

What starting tech level and research cost setting did you set for the game, and what turn is it?

PvK

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Filling Ring World with Cultural Centers gives a true meaning to Real Time Strategy Games http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Ya. Hehe. However he said he was just gonna try to build one, not to fill it up with CC's.

PvK

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Oh, I thought he was going to fill it up with CCs too. Drat. C'mon, Dogscoff, just 1 CC is no fun. Go for the gold man. Why not make it a sphereworld for good measure?

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Good luck. Post the savegame file when you're done, but I don't expect that people will still remember SEIV when you're done.

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">None.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">One

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Low-tech, not sure about tech cost- probably medium. As for turn number... I'd have to go home and check. Probably 300 or so.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">You're 'avin a laugh. As it is I'm probably looking at another 300 - 500 turns of not much.

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How many cultural centers do you control?

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Hmmmm....

My original question was answered in that there is no upgrade route to a cultural centre. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

But I am still lost in the upgrade route to other facilities.

Like is the upgrade route to a Metropolis through Minor City==>Major City==>Metropolis?

What does a Settlement ugrade to?