Opening Warp holes

[douglas]

Doing the demolish/rebuild in one turn requires either both components on the same ship, or the planet creator moving away and back before doing its thing. You could try doing it with two ships without moving first, but then the create order might be executed first and fail because there's no asteroid field there.

Edit: Planet destruction orders require that the ship already be in orbit of the planet it's going to destroy. Planet creation orders can be issued at any time and will apply to whatever asteroid field the ship happens to be in when the order reaches the top of the queue. I don't know how it chooses which asteroid field if there happen to be multiples present (if, for example, you destroyed both a planet and its moon).

[Smolf]

Can medium and smaller size gas planets be created? I'm not sure that I have seen gas planets smaller than large?

[Smolf]

And one more thing... I have found a system with no planets or stars. The description of the system says that: "a star has begun the process of forming in this system". Can I create a star in this system?

[douglas]

Smolf said:
And one more thing... I have found a system with no planets or stars. The description of the system says that: "a star has begun the process of forming in this system". Can I create a star in this system?

That's just flavor text. You can create a star there.

[Suicide Junkie]

There are (rare) medium gas giants, but there are no small or tiny gas giants in the stock game.

[Smolf]

Suicide Junkie said:
There are (rare) medium gas giants, but there are no small or tiny gas giants in the stock game.

Too bad for me. That could be one reason for not choosing a gas planet homeworld. You lose all the smaller asteroid fields... (If you play with the rule, that only allows colonizing home planet types).

I remember something about a post a few years ago concerning starting planet type. Which type were most common, which type were largest etc. I wonder if they thought about stellar manipulation???