Military Colonizers

[dogscoff]

1- Once a colony component is used, the ship is gone, no matter what components it has on board. This can't be modded, either.

2- resupply (solar) takes no notice of the number of planets in the system, it only counts stars, so no stars= no resupply. If you were to have a planet with a resupply depot in a starless system, that would still generate supplies fine. I'm not sure that's possible though. (except maybe on a manually editted map) See answer 4.

3- Planets are created from asteroids at a rate of one asteroid field per planet. Most of the time this means one planet per sector, but it is possible to have more than one asteroid field in a sector. In other words, those systems you see with a ring of asteroids around the star- they produce a ring of planets. The planet will have the same size and min/org/rad values as the asteroid field had.

4- I don't think you can create a planet in a system which doesn't have a star. Not 100% sure about this, though.

5- Yes, you can create new stars (and destroy old ones=-). Keep researching stellar manipulation to get the component. Note that there is a limit of one "artificial" star per system. Ringworlds and sphereworlds don't count as stars for most purposes though, so I suppose you could create a star, convert it to a ringworld, create another
star next to it, convert it...
Maybe. Has anyone ever tried this?

[Captain Kwok]

No, once you lay the colony the ship is "consumed" regardless of what components you have on it.

[dogscoff]

Capt. Kwok: Nyer nyer, beat you

Dogscoff: Noobracer champion

[Suicide Junkie]

A ring/sphereworld counts as half a star, and gets the worst of both.

You get no solar supply generation, and can't build another star.

It IS possible to mod a component that will blow up a constructed world, which will turn it into asteroids. You can then build another star, and form the asteroids into a planet, and/or repeat the process to make an entire solar system.

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, there must be a star in the system before 'create planet' will work. Dunno why. I wish there was an 'asteroid collector' component to create asteroid fields, and then that you could create a planet in any system regadless of the presence of a star. You could corral some asteroids and build a planet in the midst of a nebula. The perfect secret base! But by the time you had the tech to do it, I guess everyone else would have the tech to detect it.

[dogscoff]

Yeah, I'd like the stellar manipulation in the game, both natural (ie random events) and artificial (ie stellar manip components) to follow more of a "life cycle" pattern.

For example:

Star > black hole > nebula > star or something like that, so you can go full cirle ad infinutum. It would take some working out though, to work in all the possible variations.

[Gil Hamilton]

This "Stellar Manipulation" is expeeeeeeeeesive!