Exploding stars...

CW · #1 August 5th, 2001, 12:33 PM

I have never encountered it before, but usually how much warning do you get for a star that is about to explode?

Quikngruvn · #2 August 5th, 2001, 03:58 PM

Three years. Hopefully enough time to evacuate!

Quikngruvn

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Puke · #3 August 5th, 2001, 08:57 PM

I think that when you start in orbit of a collapsing star, it is a sign that god is against you and wants to see your species dead. Isn't that right, Geo?

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Baron Munchausen · #4 August 5th, 2001, 09:23 PM

Maybe it would be a cool scenario to have everyone start in a system with a star about to go nova in three years. You'd sure have to scramble in those first three years.

Or maybe the "Starflight" scenario with a wave of supernovas moving across the quadrant (or, ok, less destructive 'flare ups' that irradiate all planets -- MM would have to make this option available) and you'd have to maneuver your race to survive as well as struggle with the others.

Phoenix-D · #5 August 5th, 2001, 11:13 PM

Cheap trick to make a star explode when you want it:

Make a new component. Give it the star destroying (or nebula, black hole) ability, 1 standard move, extremely high cloak, master computer, and quantum reactor abilities. Make it extremely cheap and put in on an escort. Load up the first turn, create these escorts as needed, order then to cloak, move to star, decloak, and attack. Then abandon that players planets.

Instant unstoppable death machines..

Phoenix-D

Taqwus · #6 August 6th, 2001, 12:43 AM

Empire of the Exploding Suns?

Talk about time to use Emergency Build... or planetary engines.

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CW · #7 September 5th, 2001, 04:25 PM

Alright I noticed two different comments for explosive stars:

"Star is unstable and could collapse at any time"
"Star is prone to violent eruptions and has an unstable core"

Interesting. Would the former indicates that the star would blow within 3 years, while the later means it will not happen within the next 3 years?

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Phoenix-D · #8 September 5th, 2001, 05:30 PM

No. Because right now, it doesn't DO anything! For one, the values for those abilities are set to zero..for two, cranking them up doesn't help.

Phoenix-D

tesco samoa · #9 September 5th, 2001, 05:40 PM

everytime it has happened to me it is 30 turns

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capnq · #10 September 5th, 2001, 05:58 PM

quote:
"Star is unstable and could collapse at any time"
"Star is prone to violent eruptions and has an unstable core"

Interesting. Would the former indicates that the star would blow within 3 years, while the
later means it will not happen within the next 3 years?

No, I think both of those descriptors mean the star is a candidate to blow at some undefined point. AFAIK, a star without one of those two warnings will never blow without some technological "help".

The Event Log entry warning that the star will blow is always three years beforehand. Single planets with core instabilities blow in one year, and the firestorm warning gives you three months to evacuate.

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate all of its contents. We live on a placid
island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was
not meant that we should go far. -- HP Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu"