Black Holes.

[Daryl]

Would be nice that it has many stuff to it.
1. if any colonies near it have lower aging time
2. leaders in region have slower age period
3. units closer to it will slowly get suck closer and closer
and can perish. making it hard and risky to fly in systems with a black hole.

[@necron.s550]

+1

[Neutron]

The only possible one would be if you got near it, but you have to understand, the person within the grasp(near) of a blackhole, still experience the same time, just out of sync with everyone else.

[Mansen]

You need to get very close to a black hole to be sucked in. Closer then even orbital stations go. Slower aging? Maybe if by some stroke of luck the "system" has planets.

[Yaldabaoth]

I wonder why people do not understand this. You do not just magically age slower. EVERYTHING is slower for an OUTSIDE observer. Theoretically, if you put a colony in such a situation (on a planet with no sun), you will have fun seeing it never grow, build something or do anything. Very helpful.

[Daryl]

Originally posted by Yaldabaoth:

I wonder why people do not understand this. You do not just magically age slower. EVERYTHING is slower for an OUTSIDE observer. Theoretically, if you put a colony in such a situation (on a planet with no sun), you will have fun seeing it never grow, build something or do anything. Very helpful.

hence they age slower
because to them they age normally
but for us we perceive them as aging slower...
basically we age faster to them
time is distorted

[JH]

Originally posted by Daryl:

hence they age slower
because to them they age normally
but for us we perceive them as aging slower...
basically we age faster to them
time is distorted

Yeah but if they were aging say 25% slower, that means they're doing everything 25% slower, like grow or mine or research. I'm not sure that's useful.

[NixBoxDone]

Yes, but what he is saying is that it'll be totally useless. They'd appear to be able to become thousands of years old, but would only get 90 years of work done in that time.

So you establish a colony there at the start of the game, and by the end of it, if you're lucky, the colonist will have been done with lunch and have started their first hammer swing towards building the improvised ship shelter when you get the game over screen.

How will this be fun/relevant?

[Daryl]

Originally posted by PonySlaystation:

Yes, but what he is saying is that it'll be totally useless. They'd appear to be able to become thousands of years old, but would only get 90 years of work done in that time.

So you establish a colony there at the start of the game, and by the end of it, if you're lucky, the colonist will have been done with lunch and have started their first hammer swing towards building the improvised ship shelter when you get the game over screen.

How will this be fun/relevant?

you hope the other races die out long before they arrive in your system :D

[NixBoxDone]

Personally, I'd probably just out tech whatever civ hid away in the wormhole and shoot a few missiles in. By the time they arrive, I'd be long dead anyways. :o

[Vellis]

Black Holes are the centre of the Galaxy; the Quasar.

I suppose new Black Holes represent the verse's causal procreation, if you know what I mean. Supernovas, collapsed stars; Black Holes may be beginnings of new Galaxies.

[NixBoxDone]

Who are we, why are we here?

Yeah, you see, this advanced civilisation shot torpedos into a black hole to catch some nutsos in a rogue colony, and you guys kinda happened.

[Centerpoint108]

best thing ever happened to me as a new player. Hell's Maw black hole had 5 physics on it, built a frontier station in system. constructor goes inside black hole graphic, with it's drones flitting about just outside. station ends up being inside the graphic as well.

either weapons are stronger than black holes, or space materials are insanely tough.

[annaliseh]

Originally posted by Griffin:

Black Holes are the centre of the Galaxy; the Quasar.

And this is a fact, is it? This has been observed in the last 100 years, has it?

As far as I know, it is all unproven theory! Even the distortion of time in a black hole.

But it sure will add another dimension to the game play - why not bring it on!