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Originally Posted by AlexanderHowl
Since WWII technology depended on fossil fuels and there would likely not be any fossil fuels on a Ringworld, they would collapse back to the technology of the 1860s (when everything could depend on wood as fuel). Unless humans were divided into village-sized units and provided with food until the first crop, the majority of humans would starve to death. I can imagine a scenario where a well meaning but clueless alien civilization accidentally kills 90% of humanity in an effort to save them from the horrors of war by transporting them to a Ringworld and leaving them to starve to death because they did not think to leave sufficient supplies.
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I have trouble picturing an alien race that figured out FTL and mega-engineering, but who didn't understand logistics.
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The resulting loci of human beings would probably not have any contact with each other because they could not travel the vast distances involved. If we assume that the aliens clumped humans together in groups of one million people, they would have created 2,300 loci of humanity (before the resulting kill off from mass starvation if the aliens were clueless). With an area of 3 million Earths, the distance between the center of each loci would be around 900,000 kilometers, over twice the distance of the Earth to the Moon.
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As mentioned above, 'scattered' doesn't necessarily imply precise equidistant spacing around the ringworld. In fact, that would require a different term, such as 'evenly distributed'. They could be randomly scattered in clusters over a limited section of a ringworld which has other habitats dedicated to other alien refugee ecosystems, for example.