FQM Beta 6 + Website

[Baron Munchausen]

Yeah, since stars' descriptions say they are 'large' or 'small' or whatnot, they really ought to be different sizes. A red giant or two that takes up half of its system might be cool. I like the neutron star idea, too. That would be the size of a planet, taking only one hex, and close to black, but surrounded by a faint, weird purple 'ultraviolet' glow. Any planets in a neutron star system would be 'blasted' clean by the supernova that caused the neutron star, of course. No atmosphere. The closer ones might be only asteroids.

Even better, can you improve the 'wisps' of gas/dust that are swirling around black holes? They look like sponges swirling around in a bathtub in stock. They need to be elongated in the direction of the swirling. If the SE5 graphical engine can do trailing smoke from damaged ships, it can do these wisps of gas/dust properly, too.

[Fyron]

I've kept the 3 sizes of each star, but its all relative to type. For example, yellow stars can be 38, 40, or 42 units in diameter. Its only slightly less wide than the stock range, which had 32, 36, and 40.

Did you not see the red giant system? Is that not big enough? 4 hex radius! hehe

Neutron stars are on the drawing board.

Hmm... the black hole system does not seem to actually animate the bitmap effects it uses. It seems to just pick a frame to use, and stick with it. Using the smoke trail animations just made the puffiness worse: black hole puff. I also have no control over the distance between black hole "clouds." :-\

[mrscrogg]

How about a binary star system with the two stars sharing plasma with each other !

[AgentZero]

I'd pay to see that!


Wait. No I wouldn't.

But it'd be cool.

[Ed Kolis]

Heh, is that the new meaning of "porn star" nowadays?

[mrscrogg]

I knew someone was going to say that !

[AgentZero]

I'm just surprised it wasn't me.