Protostars & other cosmic phenomenon

JacoTheBad

JacoTheBad
I wounder if ED plan on continuing to flesh out other cosmic phenomena. After learning about the star upgrades coming in 2.2, I can't help but hope that is something that will continue to get fleshed out.

Things like Protostars, and one star feeding on the other... All manner of other cosmic phenomena one may experience. You could use some creative license for events that are yet to be discovered.

...Good times

Edit: Perhaps I should use some visuals...

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JerryLove

JerryLove
More than that: wouldn't it be great if planetary nebula were the best spots to mine?

Perhaps the neighboring star-system patrols, but only if their economy and state allow them to spare the resources.

It would be more interesting than planet rings.
 

c00ky1970

c00ky1970
If they have started on White Dwarfs with 2.2, is there any reason why they are not looking at others for future releases.

Accretion disks , solar flares, pulsars, I have no idea what else they can also update, but there are 400 billion locations they can do this in!

i would expect some gameplay function would also be incorporated into these enhancements as this is a game that is being developed and not a galaxy simulator.

looking forward to experiencing this over the next few years!!
 

JacoTheBad

JacoTheBad
JerryLove said:
More than that: wouldn't it be great if planetary nebula were the best spots to mine?

Perhaps the neighboring star-system patrols, but only if their economy and state allow them to spare the resources.

It would be more interesting than planet rings.
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Nebula have a lot of room for enhancement. Mining in them could be great! I would like more of a flying through the clouds effect while directly in one, instead of it looking like a background photo... Not sure how realistic the flying through clouds effect would be though... never been in a real nebula; might have to settle for a slightly colored fog ;)
 

JerryLove

JerryLove
JacoTheBad said:
Nebula have a lot of room for enhancement. Mining in them could be great! I would like more of a flying through the clouds effect while directly in one, instead of it looking like a background photo... Not sure how realistic the flying through clouds effect would be though... never been in a real nebula; might have to settle for a slightly colored fog ;)
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Not stellar nebula (like those big things you see at galactic scales): those are too diffuse. I'm discussing proto-star-systems as the local matter is still spiraling in to form planets.
 

Ziljan

Ziljan
We have plenty of protostars in the game. We even have protostellar disks. Unfortunately they currently just look like normal rings.

That being said they are introducing what appear to be accretion disk like nebulosity around neutron stars in 2.2. If they are adding in accretion disks, then realistic looking protoplanetary disks could be a next step. They don't look much different except the color, lol. And the composition, heat, and danger elements would obviously be a bit different too.

Hopefully we'll be seeing disks around black holes as well as stellar cannibalism. Would be amazing to discover and see such things.
 

JacoTheBad

JacoTheBad
JerryLove said:
Not stellar nebula (like those big things you see at galactic scales): those are too diffuse. I'm discussing proto-star-systems as the local matter is still spiraling in to form planets.
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I got you now. Yeah that could be pretty intense to find!

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Flimley said:
Im confident more galactic visual treats will be in store for us over time.

Flimley
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Indeed sir! Hopping they even take it farther than we think
 

cmdr underhill

C
Globusdiablo +1 for the crickets!

Nebula are just fine. The density is not that high, you will only find "clouds" (if you can call them that) around the earliest stages of protostars. Even then, they are only dense enough to fly through and notice for a relatively short time, and thus are somewhat rare. If they were to put them in, it may need to be after the atmospheric flight model gets added anyway.

edit: ninja'd!

Pulsars seem to be coming, because that's what David Braben was describing in the interviews. The magnetic fields he was talking about are what makes a neutron star a pulsar.

Accretion disk would be nice as long as they don't put one on every black hole. Interstellar just wanted to make the black hole visible in a way that was realistic. Actually I'm pretty sure that movie was just a science lesson from Kip Thorne, that wormholes and black holes are not 2D swirling pools of light. Kudos to him for succeeding in that.

The only places I want to see an accretion disk would be compact stars (BH, NS and WD) that have nearby large stars. For stars close enough (within the Roche limit) they should (at least partially) disintegrate and become a ring around the primary. Thus an accretion disk!

Comets would be nice to get in too.
 
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JerryLove

JerryLove
Ziljan said:
That being said they are introducing what appear to be accretion disk like nebulosity around neutron stars in 2.2. If they are adding in accretion disks, then realistic looking protoplanetary disks could be a next step. They don't look much different except the color, lol. And the composition, heat, and danger elements would obviously be a bit different too.
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The big danger elements for most of these would be a combination of radiation and hyper-velocity particles; neither of which exist in ED.
 
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