Updated the FAQ

[Spoo]

douglas said:
Create Black Hole:
Can only be issued at a star, but no star is necessary when the order is carried out. The star the order was issued at will be deleted even if it is not in the same system as the new black hole. This deletion will not affect anything else in the system - the star just disappears. Cannot be done in the presence of an enemy.

Let me stress that the blackhole is succesfully created in the target system - even if the ship carries out it's "create black hole" order in a space that doesn't have a star! System Gravitational Shields still protect the target system, however.

[Fyron]

Does the target system still have to have a star in it? Not necessarily in the sector that the ship ends up, but at least somewhere in the system?

[Slick]

Lemme get this straight. (in simultaneous movement) If I have a black hole maker and I put it on a star and I give it the order to move out of the system, then give it the order to create the black hole (I'm still on the star at this point), when the turn is executed, the ship will warp out of the system and be saved while the star that I gave the order on is destroyed and turned into a black hole???

It seems that if it works this way, I can save the black hole making ship! Or am I reading this wrong?

[douglas]

I don't know if this is in the list of things remaining to update or not, but it's not marked with underscores, so here it is: the discussion of crystalline armor in section 1.1.2 is off; pretty much all the "half"'s and "50%"'s should be deleted. The shields from damage ability works out to exactly the same as emissive except that it stacks to a limit of the lower of your maximum shields and the structure of one component of it (minus 1).

[Suicide Junkie]

Example: Insane gobs of crystalline armor. 150 hitpoints each, and 300 SGFD ability points total.

A weapon hits for 300 damage.
Two armors will be destroyed.
300 shields will be generated.
The next hit is blocked by the 300 shield points, resulting in an average of 50%

[FunnyMan]

Correction to 1.3.3 ...with no atmosphere. Gas giants always have an atmosphere (i.e. not None), but an Atmosphere Converter can solidify them into a Rock/None planet.

I enjoy playing as Rock/None I can definitely say that an Atmospheric Converter will change a Gas/Any planet into a Rock/None one.
-FM

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[El_Phil]

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[FunnyMan]

Well, for a first post, it wasn't a great one. I just figured out that I was wrong. Not sure what it was that convinced me that it WAS that way... Certainly seems like a logical thing to have happen, anyway.


-FM