Arhi
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Post by Arhi on Jul 24, 2012 17:08:22 GMT
That's just a simple mesh change and is very easy. But it seems like they want to keep the travel between stars and have wormholes be the major way to travel -- which means, iirc, updating/changing most of the maps that have multiple stars to include at least one mass relay in each star system/galaxy-like-object (cause let's face it, some of those larger maps are really galaxies and not solar systems with the amount of planets in them) Galaxies consist out of hundreds of billions of stars. The largest SoaSE maps are more like clusters or sectors and probably not even that. I know that galaxies consist of billions of stars, but with how Stardock decided to represent each system on multi-star maps to have a spiral galaxy look to them when zoomed out far enough. I've just taken this to mean that the larger the map, the closer to an actual galaxy it is and the farther away from a single solar system it is. Also, not all galaxies have billions of stars as there are varying sizes of galaxies.
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wombatleader
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Post by wombatleader on Jul 24, 2012 17:55:04 GMT
Thanks for clearing that up, thats what I wanted to know.
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Post by commandershepard on Jul 25, 2012 7:41:17 GMT
There are two general types of galaxies: Dwarf Galaxies and the full sized ones your familiar with. Dwarf galaxies can have as few as 100 million stars in them sometimes less and are usually too dim to be spotted without very advanced scientific equipment (or unless very close to them). Normal galaxies can contain a few hundred billion stars and some can be as large as 1 trillion stars. The Milky Way, our home galaxy, contains between 200 and 400 billion stars.
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Post by Reaper_Armada on Jul 25, 2012 8:43:41 GMT
There are two general types of galaxies: Dwarf Galaxies and the full sized ones your familiar with. Dwarf galaxies can have as few as 100 million stars in them sometimes less and are usually too dim to be spotted without very advanced scientific equipment (or unless very close to them). Normal galaxies can contain a few hundred billion stars and some can be as large as 1 trillion stars. The Milky Way, our home galaxy, contains between 200 and 400 billion stars. The bigger the galaxy, the bigger the super massive black hole that lies at the centre.
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wombatleader
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Post by wombatleader on Jul 25, 2012 15:11:28 GMT
But what causes a super massive black hole like that in the first place? Ones formed by stars are nowhere close to the beast that lays at the center of our galaxy.
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Post by Emberblaque on Jul 25, 2012 17:55:03 GMT
But what causes a super massive black hole like that in the first place? Ones formed by stars are nowhere close to the beast that lays at the center of our galaxy. I imagine the massive galactic nucleus is responsible for it, collapsing upon itself.
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Post by Reaper_Armada on Jul 26, 2012 1:20:23 GMT
But what causes a super massive black hole like that in the first place? Ones formed by stars are nowhere close to the beast that lays at the center of our galaxy. Stars are orbiting the black holes all the time, the gravitational pull, draws stars, mostly those who have lost their outer layers due to other events, and sucks them in. Also any gas or particles can be drawn on and that also increases the size. A lot of older stars also orbit the nucleus of galaxies, which makes them prime targets to be devoured. The supermassive black holes at the centre of nearly all galaxies are formed over time, and it is their gravitational pull that is suggested that is to have made the universes galaxies. When blakc holes colide, or absorb each other, they do not create a massive detonation but instead increase the size of previous black but combining their mass. The smaller black holes can be brought into contact with the nucleus one by gravitational pull. Although it may take billions of years, its contact is inevitable.
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Post by bigbuttons on Jul 26, 2012 15:35:06 GMT
RA pretty much has it nailed there, but the super massive black holes started a lot more massive then your regular stellar black holes making it easier for it to absorb more mass anyway, this is due to the period in which they were formed in which stars were HUGE. This means that the black holes would start large to begin with. Extra fact is that some scientists believe that these black holes may have seeded the birth of the galaxies.
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wombatleader
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Post by wombatleader on Jul 26, 2012 16:13:25 GMT
I think there is some kind of special on this week on one of the science channels about the super sized black holes. Could be worth a look.
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Post by vvvvbbbb on Jul 27, 2012 19:35:58 GMT
When will this mod be released ?
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wombatleader
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Post by wombatleader on Jul 27, 2012 23:10:04 GMT
When will this mod be released ? TBD
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Post by cowgirl on Jul 29, 2012 12:34:04 GMT
What types of sounds can we expect to hear? Will we get to hear the signiture reaper horn as they attack?
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Post by Reaper_Armada on Jul 29, 2012 12:50:41 GMT
What types of sounds can we expect to hear? Will we get to hear the signiture reaper horn as they attack? Yes you will. It will be home made sounds in the form of a mic, too many beans and my ass.
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Post by Wolfrahm on Jul 29, 2012 13:04:50 GMT
How far are you guys in giving all the units sound effects? Are any of them going to be voice-acted? I suppose some of the TEC lines can stay and you guys can take some lines from random sci-fi movies. Concerning the Blow-hole err... horn, blow-horn Reaper thing, while it is a desperate time for the galaxy, can't you just extract it from Mass Effect 3 sounds.
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Post by cowgirl on Jul 29, 2012 18:29:30 GMT
What types of sounds can we expect to hear? Will we get to hear the signiture reaper horn as they attack? Yes you will. It will be home made sounds in the form of a mic, too many beans and my ass. Yay!
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