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[mottlee]

Originally posted by Randallw:
I laboured away for ages to create a planet builder, then I send it to a system made of nothing but asteroids.
"Ha,Ha !" I say "Now I can build a new planet every turn". Instead I get a message informing me I can't do it because there are no stars in the system. Now I have to build a star creator. To avoid further setbacks, can the star be built in empty space, or do I need to use it on a storm or asteroid?.

You must have sun to build planets, you can not do so in a Nebula (no sun) distroy the Neb then put a sun then Ring/Sphere world

[Arkcon]

Originally posted by Alneyan:
You should be able to build the star where you wish it to be, and you would be able to build a ringworld/sphere world over this star while converting the asteroids into actual planets.

Auggg! Convert all asteroids into planets first, THEN build the ringworld, you can't convert asteroids without a real star.

I got a nasty reminder of this fact once. I was a crystaline race and I was staying in one system. I used the crystaline resource generators on every planet, then I built a ringword, and suddenly had no income. D'oh!

[kerensky]

Here is a planetary cloaking facility that I found here on a thread about a month or so ago. Just copy and paste it into the facilities folder.


Name := Planetary Cloaking Device
Description := Device which effectively cloaks an entire planet
Facility Group := Shields
Facility Family := 39
Roman Numeral := 0
Restrictions := None
Pic Num := 8
Cost Minerals := 20000
Cost Organics := 0
Cost Radioactives := 5000
Number of Tech Req := 1
Tech Area Req 1 := Shields
Tech Level Req 1 := 9
Number of Abilities := 5
Ability 1 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 1 Descr := Prevents level 3 Active EM scans.
Ability 1 Val 1 := EM Active
Ability 1 Val 2 := 4
Ability 2 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 2 Descr := Prevents level 3 Passive EM scans.
Ability 2 Val 1 := EM Passive
Ability 2 Val 2 := 4
Ability 3 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 3 Descr := Prevents level 3 Psychic scans.
Ability 3 Val 1 := Psychic
Ability 3 Val 2 := 4
Ability 4 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 4 Descr := Prevents level 3 Gravitic scans.
Ability 4 Val 1 := Gravitic
Ability 4 Val 2 := 4
Ability 5 Type := Cloak Level
Ability 5 Descr := Prevents level 3 Temporal scans.
Ability 5 Val 1 := Temporal
Ability 5 Val 2 := 4

[Alneyan]

*Coughs* Obviously, who said a ringworld serves as a star for planet creation purposes? Oh, wait, that was me. I guess it says a lot about my *Ahem* love for Ringworlds. Thanks for correcting me on this matter!