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Feb 22, 2006 KixKizzle link
It definately should be random.
Feb 22, 2006 Tetrisconnection link
Hmm idea on the Blackholes...

Make them like Ion Storms...
They appear randomly and you stop in the sector that it's occuring, when in a blackholed sector your ship moves much slower(due to being pulled towards it) and you must make it to the exit to escape...standing still will get you sucked into the blackhole and shot somewhere random... but anything above 45 will make not get sucked it, but only recieve a slowed movement speed.
Feb 23, 2006 CrazySpence link
instead of calling them blackholes lets just call them Spacial Anomolies because then we can make them do whatever funny things we want and not have to worry about scientific people complaining about it!

P.S I like the ion stom idea except I dont want to run into 3 of them in a single system like ion storms that would just be incredibly annoying! but once in a while being thrown across the universe trying to cross some **new** system filled with uber riches I could cope with
Feb 23, 2006 ThinkHen link
How bout this idea. Why not have some sort of supernova in sectors near stars. Then for a few days following, a really rare ore appears (like how gold and platinum are formed after an actual supernova). After that, a blackhole (inescapable I might add) lasts for the following week.

Kinda cool to get some rare ore for a few days only to come back the next and get sucked into oblivion.
Mar 01, 2006 mgl_mouser link
New Scientist talks about a Black hole flight simulator:

http://www.newscientist.com/blog/shortsharpscience/2006/02/black-hole-flight-simulator.html

This is no dinky animation. It was coined up by astrophysicists.

Now lets get them black holes in VO!

Edit:
Avoid the free registration on the NY Times website by using user POENEWS and password POENEWS :-)
Apr 23, 2008 Peter rabbit link
Black holes should be in only the new sectors you explore with unstable Wormholes, etc, sure there is a few threads on that, but it would add to the challenge of uncharted space, while keeping the normal systems free.
Oct 22, 2009 pirren link
I like the idea of different space anomalies (some of 'em can work as mines, be transparent and could be seen only with special scanner). This will add more Xtreme to gameplay.
I think that idea about random-exit blackhole is quite nice and can be fun, but adding known-exit blackholes will only ruin gameplay. It makes only sence when the galaxy is realy huge.
Oct 22, 2009 ladron link
Begone, ye foul incarnation! I banish thee back to the underworld from whence you came!

Lock please.
Oct 22, 2009 toshiro link
It's

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Oct 22, 2009 LeberMac link
AndNowForSomethingCompletelyDifferent