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New Players => The Academy => Topic started by: Thiosk on August 16, 2011, 03:25:08 AM

Title: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Thiosk on August 16, 2011, 03:25:08 AM

Sol is adjacent to a Class 2- but right next door to that is a reasonable system for establishing colonies.  However: will my idiot class 1 civilian ships go roaring into the wild blue yonder when I establish that colony, only to be sucked inexorably to their doom?  And then continue getting sucked to their doom until they are all replaced by their faster descendants?

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Thibaut on August 16, 2011, 04:01:04 AM

"only effect" of black holes is to decrease the speed of the ships going by by their class *1000K/s.

So, if your ships have a speed > 2000 Km/s (3 or 4KK would be better unless you're ready to have it being very sluggish) it should be ok

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Mel Vixen on August 16, 2011, 04:33:17 AM

Iirc in the mechanics-thread to blackholes Steve says Civis ignore these places. I am to lazy to search the quote now.

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Thiosk on August 16, 2011, 11:54:25 AM

Ah, so they'll ignore it.  Thats good and bad, to be honest.  They go too slow to handle it, but the next gen goes 3k and the later gens go even faster.  Cuts out a whole warp chain to populate.

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: voknaar on August 16, 2011, 07:34:56 PM

You will just have to hope that if you build up the colony's enough that a few civilian ships will spawn there. I have no idea if they only spawn at the capital or if its at 25m+ colonys.

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Thiosk on August 16, 2011, 07:57:02 PM

only at capital, methinks

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Caesar on August 18, 2011, 12:45:04 AM

You could always generate a route to the colony by linking an unexplored jump point in another system to this new colonizable system.

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: deoved on August 18, 2011, 08:58:55 AM

Quote from: Caesar link=topic=3951. msg38486#msg38486 date=1313646304

You could always generated a route to the colony by linking an unexplored jump point in another system to this new colonizable system.

You mean using SM mode or?

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Caesar on August 25, 2011, 03:03:55 PM

Quote from: deoved on August 18, 2011, 08:58:55 AM

You mean using SM mode or?

I mean using SM mode.

Title: Re: Black Hole Practicals
Post by: Steve Walmsley on August 29, 2011, 09:24:05 AM

Quote from: Thiosk on August 16, 2011, 03:25:08 AM

Sol is adjacent to a Class 2- but right next door to that is a reasonable system for establishing colonies.  However: will my idiot class 1 civilian ships go roaring into the wild blue yonder when I establish that colony, only to be sucked inexorably to their doom?  And then continue getting sucked to their doom until they are all replaced by their faster descendants?

Civs will only use black holes if they have at least a 1000 km/s greater speed than the effect of the black hole.

Steve