More uses for ringworlds

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I just wish ringworlds still produced minerals.

I wouldn't mind if that was the case, but I also know that this would be insanely overpowered.
...I mean, just look at the current situation with Machine & Hive Worlds. I'd argue they more or less break the game's economy.

 

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Do they break the economy because of the ability to use whatever districts you want? Or do they break it because of the extra jobs per district hive minds get?

I mean, I admit it's powerful, but I'm not entirely convinced that it is game breaking.

The former. Minerals are / were one of the actual bottlenecks in the economy, but these planets make it a non issue.
It's not the only issue I have with the current economy, but by far the largest.

 

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and why do you need them?
I mean even if we ignore the exploity thing that you can produce alloys out of air (with 0 minerals in a stock)… you stll don't need much quantities of them. only a net positive number (aside from occasional 20k for building another ecumenopolis)

I am not talking about stockpiles in this case, I am talking about production and consumption. There is always demand to produce more alloys, CGs, motes, gases and crystals. It's not uncommon for my (organic) tall empires to use up 1.5k or more M in job upkeep.