Some of my ideas and questions

[capnq]

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can i turn a planet into a sun?or a planet of type a to type b?

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If you destroy a type A planet, then create a new planet out of the asteroid rubble, will the new one automatically be another type A? If not, you could repeatedly destroy and create the planet until a type B was randomly generated.

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Cap'n Q

The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"

[Puke]

the atmosphere will be different every time, im not sure about planet type. size and resource value is constant.

[Suicide Junkie]

Asteroids are always "rock", but turn into any of Ice/Gas/Rock when planetized.

I believe that if you keep smashing and rebuilding, you can get any atmosphere with any surface. Thusly, with enough time and budget, you could colonize all planets in a "own atmosphere/surface only" game.

These are always subject to the restrictions of: no Gas/None, Gas giants are always large or huge.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 14 September 2001).]

[Puke]

actually, gas giants can be medium as well. but what do you mean by: asteroids are always rock?

i thought they were undefined, like a quantum bit in a state of supermotion. or were you talking about real asteroids? if asteroids are always a planet type, can they be colonized? i tried very hard to get them to colonize, but i think i remember that whoever first did it way back when, did it by turning them into rock planets and thus they could not be affected by stellar manip properly.

if they can be left as asteroids, and a seperate asteroid colonizer could be created, i would be very interested in knowing how. I know that it would be possible in a patch, because they have specific stats in the planetsizes.txt

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"...the green, sticky spawn of the stars"
(with apologies to H.P.L.)

[Suicide Junkie]

What I mean is that, if you click on an asteroid object in SE4, it says:
"TYPE: Rock - <size>"
"ATMOSPHERE: None"
Thus, SE4 probably does not keep track of what an asteroid belt will turn into; rather, when you make it into a planet, these values change to a random (but valid combination) type and atmosphere, potentially different each time the planet is rebuilt.

[Lord Kodos]

new species types here they are new types but you probably wont actualley see them until at least v 1.1new stuff

Types:
Antimatter species colonize anywhere but have huge colony modules but only two theirs can colonize both ice and rock and only need a neew one for gas giants as they must house metel and cointenmint feildfs but they have very powerfulll weapons and powerfulll ramming power

Sun dwellers:they can colonize only gasous and create sun colonys.

Pure energy beings owerfull weapons slightly bigger colony mods and their ships are pure energy and dont need supplys and regenrate but much slower at regenerating...


Components

Immune system: boarding defense for bugs
Energy field:energy biengs sheild

Ships
antimatter cruiser etc etcmal as other ships but deadlier at ramming and invunerable to missles

Sector and planet types

Slaver stasis field:a sector that contains some new techs for everyone but most are for psychics like the
Slaver subjegator:a better albiet coslier subverter but their are also regulerweapons like

Soft weapon:a omnipotent death ground troop ray but very big...

[Suicide Junkie]

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antimatter cruiser etc etcmal as other ships but deadlier at ramming and invunerable to missles

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Why should a ship made of antimatter be any more resistant to a matter/antimatter explosion?

If a missile just sprayed antimatter around before impact, it would be very ineffective.
A simple magnetic field would be sufficient to deflect the antimatter!
Just as decent weapons today will mix an oxidizer in with the fuel to get a better explosion, the antimatter missile technology would do something similar. If the missile were to thouroughly mix pockets of matter and antimatter together (using forcefields to prevent an early reaction), then ALL of the mass would be converted to energy every time, resulting in a multi-megaton bLast of energy from warheads measured in grams.
Uncharged photons of incredibly high energy suddenly bombard your ship, requiring "magical"-tech forcefield shields to protect against.

Anyways, what I'm trying to say is that an antimatter ship would be just as vulnerable to missiles and torpedoes as "normal" ships. The antimatter in the weapons does not react with the hull of the target, but within the missile itself.

If anything, an anti-matter race would be at a severe disadvantage, running into solar winds would mean death. Cosmic dust would cause the hull to glow from M/AM flare-ups. Particle-beam weapons would trash the ship instantly. Their shields would have to be up at all times to prevent their destruction.