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Wormholes

Feb 23, 2006 CrazySpence link
When a wormhole opens it is open to everything, not just the ship that started it, if someone follows you into one they should go through it too!

However! if they get caught as it is closing their ship would surely get cut in half and die so Beware!

Example situation: you are being pursued and a worhole opens infront of you, you turbo towards it, the ship that activated enters, you start to sweat as you realize the wormhole begins to close but you make it through and the pursuer attempts to follow but is destroyed by the wormholes collapse!

Bad example situation: Evil pirate chasing down poor ships, has no energy and just piggy tails the enemies wormhole

Worst case example: Arolte returns and uses other peoples wormholes to be even more annoying than before!

so...yes even I can see the problems with this, it is just an interesting idea

ps. new wormhole effect please, I'm sure you are working on one though so just a reminder!
Feb 23, 2006 CrazySpence link
Actually, as I did just label this "Wormholes" lets extend my original idea

we can currently only activate wormholes in 1 minute intervals as a method to stop what arolte used to do.

How about a BIG wormhole can only be activated in a system every 1min30sec but when a wormhole is opened it stays open for like a minute and all ships have to use that opening and then apply all that stuff in the above post!
Feb 23, 2006 johnhawl218 link
I suggested that when they added the time rule to the wormholes, I think it's a way better idea to have the wormholes naturally opening on intervuls instead of them being activated my individual ships, adds a lot more to the planning of convoys as you don't want to get to wh sectors too quickly and have to hang out where potential pirates might pick you off while you wait.
I also really like the idea that there would be less wh animations, would cut down some of the drag that happens on lower end machines, and would allow an entire convoy to all jump at once and all come out together and not all spead apart.
Feb 23, 2006 CrazySpence link
yes exactly!