Player Features and Ideas Discussion

+ 1 from me.


This is a fallacy, light can indeed escape a Black Hole, and other celestial objects in the system (then revolving around said Black Hole) do often emit light as well. Such as system would not necessarily be pitch black.

Fallacy #2. There are in fact MANY Black Holes that scientists have discovered that have everything from Planets to binary Stars to many other object orbiting them, in a sharp decay, but on the scale of a human life, we wouldn't even notice the difference. Some of such orbits wouldn't even decay 1 cm over the course of a human lifespan... Bah, Felsusguy beat me to it.

Absolutely love this idea.

Around 60% of the star systems are made up by 2 or more suns in a system, which is a fact in astronomy. And sometimes even black hole comes in pairs...

Add some neutron stars, like magnetar, pulsar, or magnetar-pulsar neutron star systems...how they affect surrounding area....
Neutron star
Pulsar
Magnetar

bump. This needs to happen. More random natural events, different enviroments and stuff. There is a lot more to a galaxy than people flying around in ships trying to pick fights with each other. Let's make the Enviroment a major part of EVE again!

You realize that in space:

1) Space is already very very dark.
2) Dispite all that, Even on the darkside of a planet, stars provide some illumination
3) A 'flashlight' is entirely USELESS IN SPACE since there are no objects for the light to bounce off of within reasonable distance. (in space, no one can see your flashlight beam, not even you.)
4) Your EVE starship is outfitted with sensors capable of detecting stellar phenomenon instantaneously (that needs to be explained to me =P ) and is also capable of tracking targets no larger than a few meters at distances greater than 100 or 200 KM.
5) according to eve lore, this data is all interpreted into a graphical interface for your convenience anyway. if a capsuleer chose to represent a titan as loveybear in his UI he could.

this 'darkness' mechanic is as gimicky as it is unsound in RL mechanics and lore...

First two and last three, yes; everything else, no. The reason is that they make no sense at all.

Solar flares and gamma rays are things that could be added for more variety and are still real space phenomena.

bump...
realistic system environment would be nice, and dynamic astrological activities will definily add more fun to the game.

That's actually not true. A black hole exerts the same gravitational force it did as a star before collapse. If, for example, our star were to collapse into a black hole, our orbit would not change. The event horizon of our star would actually only be like a couple hundred miles wide IIRC. Could be off on that, but the event horizon would definitely be MUCH smaller than the size of our star, as if it were larger then our sun wouldn't be able to emit light to begin with.

For supermassive black holes it's a different story, but most black holes are actually quite "reasonable" in terms of their gravitational force they exert. The perception of black holes as some force gobbling up everything in the universe is flawed. They are, but in order for that to happen, a much smaller object must orbit it, or a collision must occur. And if such an event were to happen between two stars, you'd still see a massive exchange of material, potential accretion disks forming, and one star would likely consume the other.

The issue with black holes in habitable systems is simply that they don't emit light, and if it were in a binary system, the irregular orbit pattern would screw with the rhythms of most life forms on any earthlike planet, crippling it's habitability. To get to a far enough distance that a stable orbit occurs would probably be too cold for life to be supported.