Dyson Spheres/Artificial planets

Oh sure, as a story element, there's incredible potential. That's one of the reasons I support the dyson sphere simply as an element in the game. If added into the game, dyson spheres open up loads of opportunities for the developers.

 

They had this in Halo wars! This is such an amazing idea! I would love to see this in this game! I loved the cut scenes in halo wars especially the last one!!

 

If it has enough centrifugal centripetal force to keep people from falling into the star on the inside, how can the gravity be strong enough to keep people from being thrown off into space on the outside?

 

I made an erroneous post about this early in the thread. Suffice to say, unless the sphere had a moment (Rotational force) on it, which it presumably does not, centrifugal force would not enter the equation at all. It would work as you say if it did. Also, you seem to have centrifugal[Wikipedia] and centripetal[Wikipedia] force mixed up.

 

Wouldnt it be easier to have it be a ring instead (think ringworld)
1 you can use centrifical force as an exscuse for everything not falling into the sun with out having to rely on artificail gravity
2 its easier to land on
3 and finaly its a 2d game frome the mechanic stand point there would be no difference

 

1: See my post above about needing a constant moment.
2: Why would it be easier to land on?
3: I would have to agree, but why bring this up?

 

Sorry, I should have said the lack of centripetal force, in that case.

 

Dyson spheres. Pandora's Star by any chance? Just hope they don't contain a hostile alien species within.

Cheers!
~Chitte

 

1 But a Dyson shell is for making energy, so using a ring would make next to no energy compered to a shell. and of course it could use artificial gravity, it makes massive amount of energy.
2 And for the landing, I think that it could use a tractor beam for landing once fixed.
3 With that logic, the planets might as well be flat sheets.

 

1 yes i agree that it would make massive amounts of energy but you would have to cover the complete inside with solar panels wich wouldnt realy make it nice to live in, also even if you could make artificail gravity what happens if it fails you would get everything not nailed down falling into the sun. so if you wanted to explore a dyson sphere made by some long extict civilation there would need to be some rediculesly robust hardware.

2 still it would be nicer to land on a desolate ring without having to rely on the previous occupants having tech that can work for millions of years without maitnence.

3 well from the mechanical stand point they are

 

I meant (for 1 and 2) that it would add a interesting bit, that to land you need to find a good spot. and then you need to use resources to repair them.

 

Why not a planet made out of metal, rather than just a shell around something?

 

Bump

 

That would be cool to have artificial planets

 

And that could be used to refill the battery bar and. THEY could be a quest to go to one of these planets and the species on the planet could to stableise the star?

Yea or No?

 

I imagine possible robot pets form this planet

 

Yea!

 

When I first saw the title, I thought "Why would I want to live inside a giant vacuum cleaner planet?"

 

This is awesome! This would be something really awesome to find when you were browsing planets! just think of what you could learn if you found an artificial planet?

 

This could provide for some fun and interesting gameplay mechanics. Because they're presumably made out of advanced alloys, perhaps make the surface indestructible, and have the planets more dungeon-focused, where you have to navigate your way down pre-generated corridors leading closer to the core, where you have potential to find advanced loot. Sort of like an "infiltrating the Death Star" sort of idea. This could be more of a place you travel to to guarantee finding better loot as opposed to resources to mine/monsters to catch, etc...