Player Features and Ideas Discussion

How about some solar systems with a Dwarf Star?

Think about it, wouldn't it be cool to "Fly-by instrument" only?? Solar systems with no light except a little glow from the far away nebulas??

This could open the door to "Night Fighting" in the world of EVE.. not necessarily pitch black night fighting.

Could not gather any info from the link provided.. other than is a wormhole..

This.

Black Holes, It still has a sun that gives off light.. totally different from that I'm proposing. I'm talking about systems with a dead sun, where it gives off zero light..

You know that makes zero sense, right? Stars give off light. That's why they're called stars. And a 'dead star' is usually referred to as a black hole(for obvious reasons). Also, a black hole is not a 'sun' as it has wholly different characteristics. If you're referring to what happens to a star if it does not collapse into a black hole then usually you're talking about dust clouds.

So getting back to my point. We already have dead stars.

It seems to me that 'Black Hole' WH are all binary star, one of which have collapsed to a black hole.

As the OP is saying, what a about a very dark, non-binary black hole systems, yes?

Just for the sake of having more visual/immersion diversity.

I know I am going to look like a jackass for doing this... but for the sake of science...


I know what you are trying to describe. You are referring to a "black dwarf."

When a small star (like our own Sun) reaches the end of its life it will transform into a "red giant" (destroying any nearby planets) and then "puff out" its outer layers (destroying or ejecting any planets that survived the "red giant" phase).
What is left is a "white dwarf"... the stellar core of a star with star-like mass but planet sized volume.

Understandably, this is a science fiction game... but, as the "black dwarf" wiki and this article point out, it would potentially take an ABSURD amount of time (longer than the current age of the universe) before a white dwarf can be truly "dead" (and thus not give off any heat/light whatsoever).

With regards to "black holes"... you are referring to a star that was once so massive it literally collapsed/imploded on itself when it reached the end of its life (oversimplification, I know). The result is an object/void that fucks around with time, gravity, anything affected by time and gravity, and is quite possibly a gross violation of all known physics within its event horizon.

All systems in EVE are binary, read the lore. To form a WH needs the binary and gates are artificial WH's.

Actually every wh system with an effect is a binary starsystem, cuz Wolf-Rayets, Magnetars, Pulsar, etc, are startypes. They are just not real objects in ingame space, just background/skybox.

The light part is still an interessting thing, could already be in large systems, that the sun illuminates less light at far off planets. RL Pluto is pretty dark, if i am right. And its a planet again \o/

In which case it's not a system if there isn't a star. It's just space.

Also, someone mentioned the binary star system thing being required for gates. I don't think anyone on the development staff has ever taken that bit seriously.