What will Black Holes do?

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Noticed a line for black holes while browsing files modding, <DefaultBlackhole>BlackHole</DefaultBlackhole> in map defs. Are they already in the game/ what will they do if not?

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Reply #1 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Edit: Forced them to spawn by changing galactic minimum to 20. Doesn't seem to have texture, and although ship cant get in sector it doesnt do anything else

Also, super pumped my request for binary stars was liked :) <BinaryStarLikelihood>0.05</BinaryStarLikelihood

P.S. How come changing binary likelyhood to 100 didnt make them spawn?

Reply #2 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Quoting Goudeau42, reply 1

Edit: Forced them to spawn by changing galactic minimum to 20. Doesn't seem to have texture, and although ship cant get in sector it doesnt do anything else

Also, super pumped my request for binary stars was liked  <BinaryStarLikelihood>0.05</BinaryStarLikelihood

P.S. How come changing binary likelyhood to 100 didnt make them spawn?
End of Goudeau42's quote

At a guess its probably because they haven't been programmed in yet. This is only build 2 of the external Alpha test cycle.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

What will Black Holes do?

 

I don't really know, but one thing is for sure, they will suck! ;) (okay, poor joke, I'm tired and it's been a looong day... :D )

Reply #4 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

 

Black hole in top left corner. Obviously this picture was just for show. But I feel stardock already told (showed) us black holes, among other things, will be in the game at some point.

Reply #5 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

I've Had black holes in the game ... I can't see them, but when sending Survey ship on Survey, it will find them automatically and fly into them.

 

PS, after use, black hole dissapears ...

Reply #6 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

@dumicat I think what you are talking about is a special and unstable form of blackholes aka wormhole

Reply #8 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

my guess is that black holes will simply be inaccessible terrain, similar to mountains in civ5. The dotted line seen in the picture around the black hole would be the event horizon and be impassible. Possibly some races would have techs to decrease the event horizon or to allow them to fly into the event horizon without losing their ship immediately. 

 

It could also just be some debuff area similar to nubulae and dust clouds, but i think there should be some form of impassible terrain.

Reply #9 from GalCiv3 Forums Top

Well what should happen is.....

 

Ships should be torn apart by massive gravitational forces long before they reach the event horizon.

But supposing some very high level tech prevented this, then the ship would move slower and slower and freeze forever just before it reached the event horizon at least relative to the experience of everyone in the rest of the universe to the people in the ship who knows no one can say what lies beyond an event horizon but they from their perspective would pass across.

 

Blackholes massivley warp time as well as space and even before gravity destroyed your ship you would have to contend with a lot of hard radiation  being produced by the destruction of matter on approach to the black hole.

 

But in the game this should be abstracted out to blocking movement since no sane person would expect to be able to approach a black hole and live.