Can someone give me a quick rundown on black holes? I have a Class II right next to Sol and have lots of nice systems beyond it. My scout ships are able to navigate easily through the system, but I have lost a couple of troop transports. I guess there is some sort of speed requirement based on the class of the black hole as in an earlier game, I lost a scout ship to a Class IV.
Side note, is there anyway to use SM to turn a black hole into a star? I would delete the system, but I don't know how to connect the systems behind the black hole back to my main Sol system.
Thanks!
The Black hole speed requirement is 1000 km/s x class, so a class II is 2000 km/s. There is no way to turn the black hole into a star. If you were to delete the system and add a new one, you can create jump points and link them to existing jump points using the Jump Points tab of the F9 System View while in SM mode. This allows you to link to jump points that the races in the game may not know about if they haven't surveyed the systems involved, so it will take away some of the 'fog of war'. Before trying anything involving deleting systems, I recommend you save a copy of your game by backing up the Stevefire.mdb file. Also a good idea to make sure there aren't any ships in the system at the time
Steve