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Yo, anyone ever seen this kind of supernova graphic before in DW vanilla or ROTS? I've seen this picture in the first game after patching to 1.0.7, no mods installed:


Usually I get the contours only, not the explodey center

Cheers

Yap, I've seen it in every game in every version I can remember....pretty sure about it also, I always like watching it

Oh god how i wish the galaxy in Distant Worlds was dynamic. With blue & red supergiants eventually having a low chance of going nova, adding some dark clouds to the galaxy map.
As Data's signature states, igniting stellar cores..

Interesting. I never see the star in the middle. Odd.

ORIGINAL: Baleur

Oh god how i wish the galaxy in Distant Worlds was dynamic. With blue & red supergiants eventually having a low chance of going nova, adding some dark clouds to the galaxy map.
As Data's signature states, igniting stellar cores..

You'd have to play a LOOOOONNNNNNGGGG game for it to happen. A few hundred million years might do it for you to see one, at realistic chances.

hell yeah, Baleur, the universe is magnific and DW comes close to getting that feeling across.

ORIGINAL: Kayoz

ORIGINAL: Baleur
Oh god how i wish the galaxy in Distant Worlds was dynamic. With blue & red supergiants eventually having a low chance of going nova, adding some dark clouds to the galaxy map.
As Data's signature states, igniting stellar cores..

You'd have to play a LOOOOONNNNNNGGGG game for it to happen. A few hundred million years might do it for you to see one, at realistic chances.

But colonizing an entire galaxy in a few hundred years is realistic? :p

ORIGINAL: Baleur
Oh god how i wish the galaxy in Distant Worlds was dynamic. With blue & red supergiants eventually having a low chance of going nova, adding some dark clouds to the galaxy map.
As Data's signature states, igniting stellar cores..

Yeah, but with my luck, the star that goes supernova would be my home planet... [:D]
But yes, I agree.

The average for a supernova explosion in our galaxy is 1 every 50 years, so it's entirely possible to have supernovas and novas as random events in the game.

Of course, it's less likely that 1 of the 1400 stars in the game's galaxy will go nova. Compared to our galaxy which is estimated to have as many as 400 billion stars.

Tjhkkr. It´s not that unlikely to loose your homesystem by a supernova. This crap happened to me in "birth of the federation". I was playing as klingon and my only system went supernoca in turn 3 [:D].

But it´s a great idea. A changing universe would make the game much more intresting. Supernovas, planets changing their orbit, asteroid impacts, eco-catasterophis, pleagues....planetary earthquakes destroying your invrastructure......lucky as I am every negative event will trigger right after I press the start button [:D]

Anyone remember the klingon moon splitting? [:)]

Are you talking about Praxis?

Hell yeahh, thank you TJ....always a pleasure to see good memory from someone else. I lost faith in mine long ago [:)]

Well we got the name... but um umm ummm Data you may need a memory check, because Praxis did not crack -- it sort of blew up...

Fortunatelly, that's not a memory problem but a non-english speaker expressing himself problem [:)]
Or that's my excuse, at least.

Then I should shut up and forget about it -- my apologies... [8D]

Oh, and your English is better than mine is... so do not worry about it... [:)][8D][;)]