Ecumenopolis VS Ringworlds

[Zalmoxis]

Crazy idea. What if you could build ring worlds if you have both the world-shaper perk and mega-engineering? An alternative to terraforming planets into Gaia worlds.

I have so many building slots open that I have no idea what to do with them.

You could free some of your slaves.

 

[Wolfgang I]

Maybe it is just me but the my main problem with trade and thus clerks is piracy.
Suppressing it is rather tedious. Focusing on technicians and using my fleets for conquest and leviathan hunting seems much more fun.

 

[Magil]

Maybe it is just me but the my main problem with trade and thus clerks is piracy.
Suppressing it is rather tedious. Focusing on technicians and using my fleets for conquest and leviathan hunting seems much more fun.

Gateways solve this issue, lag aside.

 

[Wolfgang I]

Gateways solve this issue, lag aside.

I guess my play-style in non-RP games is more like the approach of Less2 and my game is already more or less over by the point I get those techs.

In RP games I just do what fits my empire though which includes total galactic genocide by 2260 because I poked the L-Gate.
Edit: All my favorite playtroughts ended in horrible game overs when I think about it. My first tiny galaxy 5x crisis game... well I nearly closed the portal but the other Unbidden factions spawned on top of my ringworlds. Lol.

 

[Less2]

Maybe it is just me but the my main problem with trade and thus clerks is piracy.
Suppressing it is rather tedious. Focusing on technicians and using my fleets for conquest and leviathan hunting seems much more fun.

For Ringworlds and Habitats specifically, just build them within 6 jumps of your capital and make your capital starbase all trade modules, it gets collected at the capital and isn't subject to piracy.

For everything else, you want a sort of checkerboard pattern of 6-hanger starbases. As long as you aren't specifically pushing for clerks (which will always need dedicate fleet protection when massed), you should protect everything just fine. It does cut into your naval cap though, especially early on before you have the extra sizes unlocked.

 

[Magnificent Genius]

Has anyone brought up the fact that you need megaengineering for ringworlds and that you don't for Ecumemopoleis? I don't know how rare of a draw antigravity engineering is, but I do know that megaengineering is rare af.