Black Holes?

I'm curious to see if they implement Black Holes into this game. The idea that your star (Over time, but obviously faster than in real life, but still slow enough that you'd probably never see a young sun turn into one for at least a years time.) could turn into a Black Hole and slowly engulf the planets orbiting it just sounds cool to me. If they do add Black Holes, I'd love to see their role in the game.

 

wait; a star turning into a black hole in-game? what if my planet gets eaten' up? as for decoration wise? black-holes are anything but fancy.

Edit : i'd like to see some super massive black-holes with planets orbiting though.

 

Well, it would all depend on the sun you orbited. Some stars may take as little as a month to implode while other could last years in real life.

It's just an idea though.

 

I think that if they do use black-holes in the game, they probably won't do anything as complex as actually having a star turn into one. Losing an entire planet to an interstellar freak accident may be the premise of the game, but I don't think they want to actually expose you to it.

If anything, they'll just place a bunch of black holes around that already exist and may or may not have planets orbiting them.

 

A black hole wouldn't slowly engulf your planet especially not in sped up time. The star would explode, destroying your planet and leaving a black hole where the star used to be. Not really fun.

 

1. Only heaviest stars can turn into black holes. And these stars probably do not have any planets around them, or at least any remotely habitable planets, because stars abide to the rule "the heavier you are, the faster you die". So, planets won't be able to form successfully around these giant stars who are doomed to collapse into black holes. And even if they will...

2. These heaviest stars are sources of very powerful hard ionizing radiation. Planets and spacecraft in vicinity will be bombarded by this radiation constantly. Even if we are postulating handwavium defense against ridiculous amounts of radiation on advanced spacecrafts, planets around these stars are nothing but deadly.

3. While heavy stars die faster than "boring" main sequencers, it still goes for millions of years. If star lifecycles will be put on ridiculously fast forward speed, it basically will make no sense and will look artificial and unnecessary.

4. Before collapsing, dying star expands, overheating and burning most of its' planets.

5. After collapse, if there was a planet around giant star, and it was far away to be unharmed by its' expansion and formation of planetary nebula, it won't be sucked into black hole, because why should it? Star-born black hole is lighter and smaller than its' parent star, and planet wasn't sucked into that star before. So it most probably will just drift away instead of being sucked in.

 

Could you imagine what would that do to the game ? Seriously, everything would explode over time leaving you no planets to play with lol.
Black Holes as a decoration - sure, as a mechanic - a no no.

 

I'm sure you'll have no planets at some point.

 

i think that if they do implement black holes, that it will be more of a cosmetic effect like the planet with the red dwarf star that they just showed. so more than likely when you saw it "rise" it would still be night but around where the star should be, there might be a event horizon or something like that...

 

This would be a 1 in a zillion epic thing to behold...

I wonder if Tiy or one of the other Devs will call Dibs on the Planets with this kinda view & have them Pre-Homeworlded before we can even Beta & possibly find & see them, especially when this kinda Planet might be Lvl 100...

 

Could be used as wormholes for getting to planets faster, but dat stretching would hurt

 

Would be as good for your planet as having Galactus as your neighbor, all kidding aside maybe like in spore where they could warp you around if you had he proper ship upgrade.

 

Yeah... The danger to the situation could still be fun though, if it wouldn't immediately explode without any warnings. I think it would still be fun to see planets turn into ruined wastelands filled with lava after being struck by a huge asteroid. Things like these could be fun if there were warnings given to the players before they happened.

Here's a quick gif I made earlier just to show you an example of how a asteroid striking another planet could be seen from the planet you are currently on. Except I imagine the asteroid moving a lot slower towards the planet for a more dramatical effect, by a lot slower I mean like, you know, kinda realistic type of slow, just a little faster.

 

The description makes it seem so amazingly terrifying.

And imagine being on the surface gazing up, comparing the screenshot of the planet a year ago. The accretion disk would be like interstellar fireworks

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The best realistic alternative we can come up with would probably be a large number of stars, all covering the breadth of stellar evolution. Then we can have all the cakes.

Perhaps some sort of warning for "high danger" planets if it's particularly tempestuous.

 

I'd just go visit the black hole with my pickaxe and grab a few black hole blocks, those should come in handy.

 

Well some stars are less likely to become black holes, and most stars *Edit (planets near by)* would be habitable without having to worry about black holes interfering. So it would be more like "avoid the black holes" type of thing I suppose, it could be fun.

 

I thought we were talking about black holes.
To observe it we would have to be in the solar system. If we were in the solar system we would then be part of its expanding ball of gas and dust, as gas and dust.

 

Yeah I kinda switched to asteroids in that reply.

Anyways, I get what you are saying, you could still see black holes from the spaceship navigation system though. Perhaps if you were close to a black hole you could find rare resources on the planets next to the danger zone of the black hole's reach. And if you stayed on those planets too long then the planet would get sucked in and you'd die.

 

Yes but why would the planet get sucked in? Black holes don't get more massive than the star that made them. As stated above they get less massive. Their blackholishness is due to their density not their mass.