This should happen if you get too close to a Black Hole

CMDR Reaper

CMDR Reaper
Just saw this post on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/4y7paw/simulation_of_what_you_would_see_if_you_fell_into/

I would really like if where more danger to Black Holes, right now they are pretty harmless, your ships hardly take damage if you get to close.

So if you got too close to a black hole and passed the event horizon then it could be cool if this happened:


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Cmdr Frawd Digger

Cmdr Frawd Digger
CMDR Reaper said:
Just saw this post on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/space/comments/4y7paw/simulation_of_what_you_would_see_if_you_fell_into/

I would really like if where more danger to Black Holes, right now they are pretty harmless, your ships hardly take damage if you get to close.

So if you got too close to a black hole and passed the event horizon then it could be cool if this happened:


https://giant.gfycat.com/UntidySpottedAdouri.gif

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http://i.imgur.com/c3OFYja.png
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agreed...I would like to see black holes and neutron stars much more dangerous...

but theoretically getting sucked in by a black hole would totally wipe your character, since there is no way they could find your escape pod...

unless, they make it such that your ship jettisons your escape pod just before it reaches the point of no return...

thinking out loud here :)

Frawd
 

darkwolf79

darkwolf79
Cmdr Frawd Digger said:
agreed...I would like to see black holes and neutron stars much more dangerous...

but theoretically getting sucked in by a black hole would totally wipe your character, since there is no way they could find your escape pod...

unless, they make it such that your ship jettisons your escape pod just before it reaches the point of no return...

thinking out loud here :)

Frawd
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Unless there are no escape pods CMDR! There never have been.
Instead, when you last leave a station you take a snapshot of your memory and physique.
Once the station hears of your demise you are replicated.

That would also explain why any CMDR that dies at the opposite end of the Galaxy can just pop up at his last visited station again.
(Of course there's the issue of how do they know? But then again, that's just a risk and set of implications you have to live with)

(And yes, I am totally referencing "The commonwealth Saga" by Peter F. Hamilton. A Fantastic read!)

Ah never mind my morning musings. Back to my coffee and the task at hand...
 

Darth Ender

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there's no point in being overly realistic about what happens near a black hole since they're not going to simulate most of what actually would happen. IE. suppose i wanted to cruise near a black hole but at a distance just outside of the event horizon. Technically I'd have to orbit the thing but the game doesn't simulate ships orbiting a stellar object. Technically time would be moving very slow for me compared to everyone else and the human years would go by in seconds. Perhaps hundreds of years would go by before i leave orbit. Not gonna simulate that either. Then everything but the most massive black holes would have too short of a gravitational curve for anything large like a ship to survive the gravitational difference between the closest portion of the ship and the furthest for any amount of time beyond the event horizon, leaving you dead long before you get to enjoy the view.

Touching the event horizon would essentially erase the part of the ship that is inside the event horizon from existing with the outside since nothing can escape the event horizon and that would include electrons that hold atoms together...so instant hull breach. That is, if we ignore the fact that you absolutely wouldn't survive at all if you were just stationary near the black hole because you weren't orbiting....the gravity would crush you since it is not being countered by the centripetal force from orbiting.

So I think they should go to town with the effect. Dont be boring and conservative with the guesses as to what the inside of a black hole looks like. Go crazy interstellar style with hyperdimensional stuff and love power.


edit: i see in the OP's animation that that was all leading up to passing the event horizon. meaning the actual passing of the event horizon happened the moment the screen went black. After that point everything is moving towards the singularity, and being a forward view photons would no longer reach your eyes since the singularity is in front of you (at least none outside of your frame of reference - the ship). If singularities actually exist.
 
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Noogillim

Noogillim
A bit like if you crashed on a moon or got your backside handed to you in combat - GAME OVER - no rebuy screen no sympathy nothing you're dead DEAD banned from the servers! ;)

Hit a black hole and end up in the back of beyond dazed and confused would be better! oh with some serious creepoid consequential music!
 

Warpfactor

Warpfactor
These effects are awesome, but wouldn't make much sense for stellar mass black holes. Just as Darth Ender mentioned above, the tidal forces near stellar mass black holes would rip you apart long before you got even close to the event horizon. Almost all black holes in Elite are stellar mass. For a black hole without an accretion disk, I could imagine as you got too close, you would start to have multiple system failures followed by hull integrity loss and your cockpit glass blowing out. Pretty much like a standard combat death, but much quicker. If the black hole has an accretion disk, it would be like getting too close to a star I'd imagine. You would just very quickly overheat and explode.

The only exception is supermassive black hole Sgr A*, which has much weaker tidal forces in the vicinity of it's event horizon. In A*'s case I think the effect in the video would be very much fitting as long as there isn't a blazing hot accretion disk around it.
 
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