Using other things as inspiration is great for reasons pointed out above. I've done what Pergentile suggested but with Dwarf Fortress. Also if you have/could get any of the Civilization games they would work well. The map editor feature allows you to create a world and then edit as you see...
A long time ago on a computer in many many pieces...
I had a really handy NPC Generator program that was very similar to this one. I think it was called NPCGen, but I could be mistaken.
Does anyone happen to have this program? I can't find it anywhere, and am getting closer by the day to...
I remembered that afterward. I guess you'd need some sort of self-replenishing Wall of Stone/Iron since it would wear away. Your other point makes that negligible anyway though, nice call.
It depends on how far away you are. At an orbital elevation you're still very strongly affected by the...
Sorry, that's what I meant by critical mass. Very different, I know. My point was that this creates an object with a large amount of kinetic energy. The energy could be transferred to the mirror array by either collision (preferably with a wall of force attached to the array as not to cause...
Creating velocity:
1. Use Teleportation Circle or two Ring Gates [DMG] (maybe modified to be bigger with a higher cost?) to make a (semi) endless falling loop.
Upon achieving desired velocity (or reaching critical mass) another Teleportation Circle could be cast, or the higher Ring Gate could...
An alternate method of rolling critical hits is to roll damage x times (3 in this case) rather than rolling once and multiplying by 3.
Statistically speaking this should normalize the damage done by criticals, while reducing the number of super criticals (max damage rolled) and "failed"...