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Hello everyone,
I simply suggest adding Ring Worlds to the game. First, I'll post an example of what I mean, then my explanation of how they would add to the game, and lastly, how I believe they can be easily implemented given the current state of the game.
(Some lego ring world, I don't really know where it came from, but I wanted to show a ring world that did not enclose a sun.)
(Another example of a smaller ring, not enclosing a sun.)
(My least favorite example, from a game called Shores of Hazeron. The Ring is extremely large, and represents its own orbit of the sun. Massive blocks that revolve create shades that simulate day and night in swathes on the surface of the ring. The traditional model of this just uses big shades for this, but for some reason Hazeron's looks like giant concrete blocks...)
Now, as for what these things would add to StarMade, I believe that if these were a very rare planet type, discovering one would be enormous news for an entire server, let alone within the faction who found it. My only guess is that the world could simply be cool, but if Schine ever wanted to add super rare materials to the game, the Ring World would be the place to stick it. There would be some kind of artificial reason for a Faction to decide, "Okay, we're moving our capitol to this Ring World."
As for how it would work, I think it'd actually be extremely simple given the architecture that we already have; the planets we have now are made up of plates that surround an artificial core object. Imagine a ring world simply being those same plates, rearranged. Rectangle shaped (for simplistic example), turned around backwards, and angled together to make a ring! The plates have their own gravity and pull things 'down' onto it (the appearance of outward), and that's it!
And, I should mention as well that I do not really suggest making sun-enclosing rings, because of how the sector system works in the first place. I think that a ring world, in my mind, would only ever need to be the size of a large usual planet.
Also, for sake of detail if anyone is curious, if the satellite ring world (which does not enclose the sun) is pitched at the correct angle, one side of the ring will shade the other side from the sun, giving it day/night as it spins.
I simply suggest adding Ring Worlds to the game. First, I'll post an example of what I mean, then my explanation of how they would add to the game, and lastly, how I believe they can be easily implemented given the current state of the game.
(Some lego ring world, I don't really know where it came from, but I wanted to show a ring world that did not enclose a sun.)
(Another example of a smaller ring, not enclosing a sun.)
(My least favorite example, from a game called Shores of Hazeron. The Ring is extremely large, and represents its own orbit of the sun. Massive blocks that revolve create shades that simulate day and night in swathes on the surface of the ring. The traditional model of this just uses big shades for this, but for some reason Hazeron's looks like giant concrete blocks...)
Now, as for what these things would add to StarMade, I believe that if these were a very rare planet type, discovering one would be enormous news for an entire server, let alone within the faction who found it. My only guess is that the world could simply be cool, but if Schine ever wanted to add super rare materials to the game, the Ring World would be the place to stick it. There would be some kind of artificial reason for a Faction to decide, "Okay, we're moving our capitol to this Ring World."
As for how it would work, I think it'd actually be extremely simple given the architecture that we already have; the planets we have now are made up of plates that surround an artificial core object. Imagine a ring world simply being those same plates, rearranged. Rectangle shaped (for simplistic example), turned around backwards, and angled together to make a ring! The plates have their own gravity and pull things 'down' onto it (the appearance of outward), and that's it!
And, I should mention as well that I do not really suggest making sun-enclosing rings, because of how the sector system works in the first place. I think that a ring world, in my mind, would only ever need to be the size of a large usual planet.
Also, for sake of detail if anyone is curious, if the satellite ring world (which does not enclose the sun) is pitched at the correct angle, one side of the ring will shade the other side from the sun, giving it day/night as it spins.
