Reminds me of how in awe I was at the visuals when I played Halo 1 for the first time.

First time I died, playing Halo, was when I stepped out of the crash-landed Pelican, and looked up.

And just stared, until Covenant forces got me.

Gotta admit that if Bungie can do anything right that ain't gunplay, it's the fucking environment visuals.

Yeah, that was quite the effect =w= I feel 343 aren't doing a terrible job of continuing to do impressive visuals. There are a few things I want to whine about, but honestly, I have better things to do with my time XD

Excellent!

Thank you ^^

Damn, amazing stuff.

Thanks! :3

I feel reminded of Stellaris.

just "put a ring on it" ^.^ ..for usss, yess...?

Exactly. my favourite spots for research - but relocating all the labs there is a pain.

relocating... why... just build more... unless you got that big one up on orbit... yet then, why not some more, eh?

..another option... utopian standards.. no labs, only "unemployed" or rather, "freelancer creative commons"...

Relocating to turn the previous tech-world into another forge world. Big fleets need large amounts of alloys - and that way I only need to build the bonus-buildings once.
Utopian standards sure is nice, but a REAL pain on consumer goods - even with trade policy and an ecumenopolis producing only consumer goods. Especially on a tall empire approach you may well run out of minerals for that.

minerals.... thats what blackholes are for... ^.^

..I remember I had traits and policies to reduce consume and improove mineral output.. forgot the rest of hte build yet it went quite wide.. got to grab those minerals and vespene gas energy from somewhere before I bend the cosmos to my will via mega-build..

..provided you happen to hve a black hole nearby and went for the galactic wonders ascension perk.

heh.. two things that often happen... not to mention "..and miss the wonders of having a black hole recite love poems event" ?
what was will be
what will be was

Nah.. not missing that one.

I wonder why 9w9

I’m not sure how the ring could be at that angle unless the view is from a planetoids orbiting the ring. Which is so dangerous for all concerned the Ringworld meteor defense would vaporize the planetoid (and the viewer). That’s the wrong ring, though. 83

Yeah, I noticed that too. The perspective is too close to the far side of the ring. Might could fix it by shrinking it to make it seem more distant. Still a cool pic.

But that might be a neat idea, a small, inhabited planetoid in the very center of the ring. The ring might benefit the planetoid by housing agricultural zones and the external side might be full of defense systems. Or maybe the planetoid is benefitting the ring by creating a protective magnetic field... Maybe they would benefit each other.

Culture Rings often have a hub with the resident Mind there. (Minds are godlike AIs that run pretty much everything important in the Culture.)

Someone else who's read Larry Niven!

While his later works aren't as good, the Known Space series up through Ringworld and maybe Engineers is stellar stuff.

I want my TASP now.

Those things are dangerous. Look what happened to poor Louis when someone zapped him with one.

He got addicted.

my guess... the land at the ring insides is not flat.. if it bulges a little, maybe to have less "gravity" from spinning alone.. one at the edge could see the ring at that angle...

..at least to me this view is quite pleasant.. better then pure "vertical".. ..or maybe its from the edge of the central mountain, hight up..

As Streifi already pointed out, the idea was a culture or habitat ring around a planet(oid) ^^

How is this a wrong ring though? o.O

What I said was that if the planetoid was in orbit around the Ringworld, Niven’s one that is, the Ringworld meteor defense would see it as a threat and vaporize it. The Ringworld’s meteor defense is to fire a massive X-Ray laser out of the sun and it can, if need be, boil a whole planet away to vapor. Ringworld is big. Culture Ring sized, so it dwarfs a Halo ring.

So the planetoid would be vaporozed, but it’s orbiting the wrong ring for that. 83

Ahhhhhhh, now it makes perfect sense X3

I do have to admit that I have never read Niven's book series :/

Ringworld is a classic for a reason, Ringworld Engineers is decent, Ringworld Throne is so-so and I've never read the last one. The original Ringworld is great because of the world (and universe) building, and the aliens, and the sheer SCALE of the Ringworld itself. It's a ring around a star. The Ringworld floor is a million miles across and it goes all the way around a star. The surface area is roughly three million times that of the Earth.

Yeah, as I said somewhere above, I didn't use to be a fan of the whole mega-engineering trope, but I've come around in recent years and I think I shall begin including some concepts in my own sci-fi setting ^^

Pwetty

Fankoo

Good Work :D

Thank you ^^

Wow.... What did I say previously? Well, this IS very different. And I LOVE it

It is rather different, which makes me happy. Obviously there's still lots of room for improvement, but then that's what the Inktober Challenge is for, isn't it? X3

Larry Niven's Ringworld?

Nah. Niven's Ring's got a very different scale. I don't think it could actually be represented visually, properly ...

Then it must be Halo.

Damned great take on this.

Thank you =^-^=

Awesome work... and sure wins the "ring" category this year..

Ah, I'm sure there's plenty other awesome ring pictures out there for this year. I don't know if there's a place where this stuff collects actually XD

Ring worlds were always a fascinating concept to me. The Halo series was nice for their depictions of them even if I never cared that much for the game.

Heh, I'm on the other end of the spectrum. I was never much of a fan of mega-engineering, but that's sort of changed over the last year or so - big fan of the Halo series though X3

Heh, yeah. Years ago I listened to an audio book version of a John Varley novel set in a torus mega structure. I thought it was a neat concept. And as for Halo, I wouldn't call it a bad game, I just don't really dig FPS' that much. Plus I'm a dedicated PC gamer and MS just can't be port the whole Halo series to PC. @,,@

This is an excellent example of thinking outside the box!

Thank you ^^

Oh man, I had completely missed this. Love the visual!

XD That's okay, it's not like my artwork is compulsory to anyone's survival

Its compulsory for a fan :)

Nice pic but... perspective wise... if you've got a ring world it's going to have such a huuuuuge radius you'd never see it curving around it's host star (even a *tiny* one) as anything bigger than the thinnest of glimmering threads if that.
Sorry... science geek...

It's perefectly fine to be a science geek, as I do have that flaw myself. However, if you scooted through the previous comments, you would have noticed that this has been addressed and the ring is supposed to encircle a planet, not a star ;3