Dangerous Warp Points

[tbontob]

I think my opponent is going to be interested in reading this.

It has to do with Warp Points which do damage to ships when you move through them.

Typically (I think), the damaging warp points are part of “a massive black hole which is drawing all matter from nearby solar systems.”

A discription of the effects of the black hole are:
-All ships will be moved 2 sectors towards the center each turn.
-The center of the blackhole will destroy any ships that enter it.
-Heavy gravitation causes all shields to be useless.

To make it easier to differentiate the WP’s, I will designate the WP in the black hole system as BH-WP and its twin into the next system as bh-WP.

The extent of my knowledge is:
1) Landing on the bh-WP without going through the BH-WP will cause no damage.
2) Landing on the bh-WP by warping through the BH-WP will cause damage.
3) Landing on the BH-WP without going through the bh-WP will cause damage (I think, but am not sure)
4) Landing on the BH-WP by warping through the bh-WP will what?
5) I have discovered two types of dangerous BH-WP’s/bh-WP’s:
--a) A smaller than normal warp point.
--b) Odd warp point which appears to be of a different density structure than normal warp points.
Both WP’s describe their effects as “Strong gravitic fields causes damage to ships”.
6) The first warp point in 5a) is small and the warp point in 5b) is large.
7) Neither the type nor the size of the warp point seems to affect the amount of damage. They appear to damage ships equally.
8) It is impossible to not land on the bh-WP when warping through BH-WP and therefore damage cannot be avoided.

Even though some statements are strongly worded, they may be incorrect. Any corrections are welcomed.

Any new info will also be very much appreciated.

EDIT: The above may be a bit misleading in that if you have a normal WP in the black hole system, then no damage is sustained. It must be a 5a) or 5b) WP.

[ June 05, 2003, 22:13: Message edited by: tbontob ]