Regarding Black holes

Dragamir

Dragamir
We've all seen interstellar right? the stellar sounds of Hans Zimmer and cinematography of Chris Nolan.

Well ive visited only two black holes so far and have been stunned by them. the in game gravitational lensing is quite impressive, but i would love to see the accretion disks added to black holes. i think it makes them much more massive and scarier in my opinion. Would it be possible to create this in game? Have FD already considered this? let me know what you guys think. c:

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one above is most likely what it would look like in elite, (it is from space engine)

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interstellars black hole

Dragamir, out
 
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DaveB

DaveB
I too would love to see accretion disks but remember that not all black holes will have them - one that has managed to "clear" its immediate vicinity will be just like we see in the game now, pretty much invisible other than by the lensing effect. Only active black holes have visible accretion disks, dormant ones don't and currently that includes Sag A*. Now of course that isn't exactly a stable state for a black hole since the range of gravity is effectively infinite and sooner or later it will become active again, but there's absolutely no guarantee that in the Elite timescales any particular black hole that we know to be active or inactive now will still be in that state.
 

DaveB

DaveB
Just to add.. and if the BH is active, give the ones rotating fast enough rays, and have them be a real systemwide (visible) hazard in SC... ${DEITY_OF_CHOICE} help the explorer that drops into the system within one. Fly trough their volume anywhere in the "system instance" and they'll dump heat into your ship faster than getting stuck between two neutron stars in normal space as they steadily strip your shields... Drop into normal space within one, like if the heat causes your FSD to fail or you hit the dropout limit.. we're talking maybe enough time for your fsd to recycle and spool up again is you react instantly. Otherwise you're looking at enough heat to put you WAY over the "instakaboom" range. THey are so tightly focused that flying right up to their edge is perfectly safe but you go a single km across that boundary and it's all out for noon. (could provide some interesting tactical flying trying to "lose" somebody trying to get into position to interdict you too) Stations that end up orbiting within them, if the stations orbit allows it, go into total radiation precaution lockdown - and shut down for the duration of their transit. Only a suicidal idiot would attempt this but they will allow docked ships to leave if the pilot believes he can get into hyper before his ship boils. However they will not accept docking requests and will broadcast this fact on all channels to any pilot they detect approaching them in supercruise (detected in this sense means that the distance from ship to station in LS is less than the TTG meter because otherwise the ship is outrunning its own signal wavefront and they station will not know they are inbound)

ETA: Link it into the BGS - Of course during this time the stations economy will tank - supply of items produced will go through the roof because they can;t be shipped out, as will demand for items imported - with the resulting insanely low and high prices for them, of course. Authoritarian type factions will gain power, when the station emerges from the ray there will almost certainly be a humanitarian CG etc... Andin extreme cases the station or even entire planets could be depopulated, leaving a "dead station" - request docking - "traffic control unavailable, proceed at your own risk cmdr" lights inside the docking bay are off, pick any unoccupied pad that fits your ship... etc etc etc...
 
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Dragamir

Dragamir
DaveB said:
I too would love to see accretion disks but remember that not all black holes will have them - one that has managed to "clear" its immediate vicinity will be just like we see in the game now, pretty much invisible other than by the lensing effect. Only active black holes have visible accretion disks, dormant ones don't and currently that includes Sag A*. Now of course that isn't exactly a stable state for a black hole since the range of gravity is effectively infinite and sooner or later it will become active again, but there's absolutely no guarantee that in the Elite timescales any particular black hole that we know to be active or inactive now will still be in that state.
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Thank you for pointing this out, i find it very interesting. I think space is very complex and learning something new is quite exciting. You sir deserve some rep C:
 
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