Please don't let the Beluga stuck in the letterbox stop you on your way out! Laters!
Why ive given up on ED.
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Please don't let the Beluga stuck in the letterbox stop you on your way out! Laters!
ok, so let's talk about black holes shall we?
The biggest baddest one in the game is of course SagA*. 4 million solar masses. Let's assume that you were daft enough to supercruise up to that elemental force of ultimate annihilation and make a normal space drop at the upper limit of the "safe disengage" distance, 1000km, and that the game actually let you. (It won't. You'll hit the safety drop zone well before that) Other than the gravitational lensing of stars beyond it, you'd expect to see something black, right? There'd be this sphere of nothing staring you right in the eye. Well, it doesn't quite work like that, and even if it did the Schwartzschild radius of 4 million solar masses is about 35km. So from 1000km away it would be about 2 degrees wide. Assuming you've got the FOV slider maxed that would be about 1/30 of the total height of your screen when rendered. about 36 pixels across when viewed from WAY closer than you can actually get to it. And that's the biggest one in ED.
You will never see the equivalent of the various fancy artists impressions of a black hole's event horizon in the game because you cannot get close enough for a visible disk to be rendered. Even the Event Horizon Telescope does not expect to image the actual event horizon, only its halo in the gravitational lensing effects.
The biggest baddest one in the game is of course SagA*. 4 million solar masses. Let's assume that you were daft enough to supercruise up to that elemental force of ultimate annihilation and make a normal space drop at the upper limit of the "safe disengage" distance, 1000km, and that the game actually let you. (It won't. You'll hit the safety drop zone well before that) Other than the gravitational lensing of stars beyond it, you'd expect to see something black, right? There'd be this sphere of nothing staring you right in the eye. Well, it doesn't quite work like that, and even if it did the Schwartzschild radius of 4 million solar masses is about 35km. So from 1000km away it would be about 2 degrees wide. Assuming you've got the FOV slider maxed that would be about 1/30 of the total height of your screen when rendered. about 36 pixels across when viewed from WAY closer than you can actually get to it. And that's the biggest one in ED.
You will never see the equivalent of the various fancy artists impressions of a black hole's event horizon in the game because you cannot get close enough for a visible disk to be rendered. Even the Event Horizon Telescope does not expect to image the actual event horizon, only its halo in the gravitational lensing effects.
Cool story.
Weird coincidence too, I was listening to the Black Flag soundtrack while knocking out another billion credits today.
There is a massive assumption that Black Holes exist here ! Nobody has seen one yet.
Even the so-called "gravity wave" detectors could have discovered something coming from inside the earth, not Black Holes somewhere out in in the beyond.
Even the so-called "gravity wave" detectors could have discovered something coming from inside the earth, not Black Holes somewhere out in in the beyond.
You blinded him with SCIENCE!
Look what Breadbins accomplished pretty much single-handedly in FE2.
Then he formed FDevs. Their first title? FFE. Premature release debacle notwithstanding, what does FFE actually accomplish? Basically, with all the bugs ironed out, FFE is a ruined, messy version of FE2, just with awful ship designs, a bizarrely broken GUI, and a bunch of hand-coded missions awkwardly synched to the calendar, rather than triggered at the player's leisure.
So right from their inception, FDevs influence on the Elite franchise has been purely detrimental to the game's development and gameplay.
Then, having royally muffed it, they proceeded to utterly abandon their own flagship title for 20 years.. they could've been capitalising on it throughout. Could've been the biggest thing in gaming back through the noughties and nineties, when we were desperate for an updated sequel, with little but X and Jumpgate to fill the gap.. FD just sat on it. No releases. No reliable communication on progress. A few claims of good intentions from Breadbins in interviews, but not. a. sausage. For 20 years.
What did we really expect from an Fdevs Elite sequel?
How can one man working alone set the bar so high that not even his own company can improve on it, for two decades? I can't help but think if He'd only stayed solo, ED would be as breathtaking, immersive and groundbreaking as FE2 was to classic Elite.
But you're right, it's pointless to keep kicking thru the ashes... there's no more answers.. no more questions.. it is what it is. Rock'n'roll genius inevitably fades into pitiful sell-out, as it ever was, and all things considered we should probably be thankful for our spangly new cardboard Elite effigy. :| At least he hasn't sold the franchise to Disney, yet.
Yes the E:D flight model is based in fantasy but that doesn't mean people can't have fun with it. You don't have to be pretentious about it.
uh.. you mean Isinona's wobble-mode vids? yeah, no - that's not "FA-off". That's wobble mode.
This is FA-off:
[video=youtube_share;bjuHv25Qh8Q]https://youtu.be/bjuHv25Qh8Q[/video]
Of course, if any ED players would like to teach me anything about "FA-off", or "dogfighting", or "fun", please have at it..?
I promise i'll try not to laugh. :|
It doesn't matter what you choose to call it. My point has been made and you can't understand it.
Sorry about that, but I suspect you would have a hard time understanding anything about the game mechanics.
Can I haz your stuff?
I like the crosshair thing in that video, much more intuitive than the "dust" we have...
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By a curious coincidence, "None at all" is exactly how much suspicion the ape-descendant Arthur Dent had that one of his closest friends was not descended from an ape, but was in fact from a small planet in the vicinity of Betelgeuse and not from Guildford as he had hitherto claimed
I don't want mediums, damn liars pretending to predict my future and all that. Keep them out my space sim!
Oh get over yourself, play kerbal or something. ED ships are not 2018 tech.
Thats three words and an abbreviation of two others.
Anyway, the only thing I got out of the OP was or at least the only thing I agree with is the story I might not be in game at the moment but Ive all but forgoton about it, I do think I saw somthing about a station going dark about 20 jumps out from somwhere or somthing.
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