Wishing On A Star

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

In a system with no planets is it possible to NM to the star and be in orbit around it?

 

For example: NM <fleet #> <system name> 0

 

This could come in handy for avoiding those pesky solar flare and radiation zones.

[ShadowKitsune]

Umm ... I think you should fire your Astrophysics Department if they think that getting *closer* to the Stellar Primary would move you *away* from the Solar Flare Zone, since the Stellar Primary *is* the source of the Solar Flares.

[Fluffy Bunny Feet]

LOL

 

Duh on me

 

Regardless, I still wonder if it's possible to orbit a star.

[RTGPete]

You can't NM to a star, but you could avoid planets/moons (if any) by using MOVE to hang out at a warp point.

[WKE235]

Pete -- some star systems are listed as Binaries (or more) star systems. Yet the survey only lists the Stellar Primary. I am guessing any planets orbit the Steller Primary as well.

 

I've always wondered if this listing of Binary, Trinary, and more is simply for flavor in the game. Or, will there be some way to eventually get to the other stars, which could also have planets? Again, just guessing, it appears to be flavor in the game (though it might impact some higher level tech we are not aware of).

 

So Pete .. do those other stars other than the one we survey actually exist as places we can get to?

[RTGPete]

Binary/Trinary/Quaternary etc is just flavor for ship movement purposes (no other planets), but that star system status was used during galaxy creation for a variety of purposes.

[Lord Xaar]

Pete -- some star systems are listed as Binaries (or more) star systems. Yet the survey only lists the Stellar Primary. I am guessing any planets orbit the Steller Primary as well.

 

I've always wondered if this listing of Binary, Trinary, and more is simply for flavor in the game. Or, will there be some way to eventually get to the other stars, which could also have planets? Again, just guessing, it appears to be flavor in the game (though it might impact some higher level tech we are not aware of).

 

So Pete .. do those other stars other than the one we survey actually exist as places we can get to?

WKE,

 

In a multiple star system one of the other stars is a companion(s) to the primary. A common combination is WD/Giant...one form of Nova involves the WD companion sucking material off its neighbor until an explosion occurs (not necessarily a full-blown Nova).

 

Here's the first site I found on Google:

 

http://www.astronomical.org/astbook/binary.html

 

 

If there are planets, it is one planetary system not two or more, even if there are multiple stars.

 

I think it would be nice color in the game to have more info on the binary/trinary systems -- especially as certain binary types would radically alter the point terrain -- but overall there is little in game effect from non-single star systems.

 

Lord Xaar

[ShadowKitsune]

As someone who has found Neutron Stars, Protostars and X-Ray Pulsars in Binary Systems ... it matters.

[Azuth]

I was kinda hoping these star systems were more than flavor for the game. Was looking forward to something exciting from a Quaternary star system with a Supernova in it.

[ShadowKitsune]

I'm still hoping that we can create our own warp points in Weak Space zones in the future.

[MacBeth]

"Binary/Trinary/Quaternary etc is just flavor for ship movement purposes (no other planets), but that star system status was used during galaxy creation for a variety of purposes."

 

I would bet that it has something to do with how jump connections were laid out. At least.

 

Did any of you ever play 2300 A.D.? I always liked the way they managed jump travel. Using a more-or-less accurate map of the stars near Sol and then allowing jumps of up to 7.7 light years, but no more. It took a 3D map and spread it out into a 2D map of very restricted jump connections. A lot like what I am seeing in Supernova. Funny thing in 2300 AD is that it was about 20 jumps to Sirius. Sirius is about 8-9 light years from Sol so you couldn't make it in one jump. To actually get there was an extremely circuitous route.

 

--Russ (the other one)

[octagon999]

I actually loved the old Outreach game by SPI. I still have that somewhere. It was great for making up your own space empire games. Great galaxy map. I wish I still had the old Mars SPI game, with planetary movement, etc.

[Ur Lord Tedric]

I actually loved the old Outreach game by SPI. I still have that somewhere. It was great for making up your own space empire games. Great galaxy map. I wish I still had the old Mars SPI game, with planetary movement, etc.

:lol:

 

I did!

 

I still have it somewhere, along with the Starforce and Star Soldier(?) games which are still in their boxes. Now my son's older, he might be interested when I dig them out.

 

I took the 'third' of the galaxy from Outreach and constructed a whole galaxy by extrapolation from map to design to coloured hexes on polystyrene big hexes, which tesselated. I even took it to school every week at one point.

 

When doing programming for fun on my state of the art Amstrad 1640 ECD with 20Mb HD I even coded the whole galaxy and wrote many routines on the way to making up my own game. I remember many hours playing and testing out something that works just like the existing convoy orders

 

Ah, Outreach - before I even knew the PBM world existed.........

 

Mx