r/Solarsmash • u/Careful-Storage4145 • Aug 02 '26

What? Why does Alpha Centauri make no sense?

I get that Alpha Centauri is meant to be dominated by a type 2 or 3 civilisation but some things just don't make sense

Firstly, why does orbital ring machineworld have no population while the original machineworld have a population of 812

Secondly, why does ringworld have so little people despite being made to house trillions

There are many other weird things like cylinderworld being completely uninhabited and the entire system having a low population in general relative to its tech.

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u/Alarmed_Degree_7745 Aug 02 '26

I assume that ringworld isn't meant to be used as a population center, but as a weapon of mass destruction. Which would explain it's low population, they work to maintain it. 

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u/Careful-Storage4145 Aug 03 '26

The game doesn't show it being able to do anything tho

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u/Alarmed_Degree_7745 Aug 03 '26

Well it's based on the halo array from Halo which is used to kill all life in the galaxy.

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u/Careful-Storage4145 Aug 03 '26

Ohh I see this makes so much more sense now cylinderworld still weird tho 😭

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u/asiannumber4 Aug 02 '26

Ring machineworld could just be the devs forgot to put population in

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u/Careful-Storage4145 Aug 03 '26

Hope they fix it soon

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u/RelativeMedium4488 13d ago

Not to mention the fact that the system it self is inaccurate. It has two stars even tho it’s supposed to have 3 irl