Which Space Wormholes

MtKlima · Post by **MtKlima** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 6:54 pm

Hi all, just wondering.

Frequently, when I have no pressing space business, and don't really care where I turn up next, I join a convoy or just a single vessel as they are leaving the station and ride along until I get the free trip through the big blue witchspace wormhole.

Today, because I had pressing space business, I used my Galactic Hyperdrive. Then I started thinking. Is there a reason why I did not just leave a wormhole? Why simply anyone could just walk right into this Galaxy.

I'm not saying that it should happen, but I would certainly change my navigation stratagies if there was even a 1 in 100 chance that entering a someone else's wormhole would take me to a new galaxy, especially if my pressing space business wasn't finished in, say, Galaxy 2 yet.

Any theories out there?
Thanks, Michael

Ponder · Post by **Ponder** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:16 pm

A very interesting concept. Perhaps this should go in Suggestions?

Wolfwood · Post by **Wolfwood** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 7:21 pm

If there were such wormholes, I'd think that they should look different from the normal ones...

Flying_Circus · Post by **Flying_Circus** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:29 pm

I would suggest that they could actually add a certain level of mischief to the game - especially if they were left to look the same, since:

A) it might leave OXP'ers more scope for sudden surprises - i.e. the player hammers "bad guy X", as per contract... who promptly retreats through a wormhole - upon which our plucky commander pursues said felon, expecting to emerge at some nearby star... only to find - "where the 'fsck' am I, now!?
B) If wormholes have any reality (and are visible) they're essentially the same, no matter how far they reach in "real" space (assuming such a concept as "real space" had any real meaning, on a lightyear scale: and, yes, I know - arguing points of real physics in a game theat assumes faster then light travel is possible, is a bit of a moot point, but still...

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MtKlima · Post by **MtKlima** » Wed Apr 12, 2006 8:41 pm

I'm all for adding mischef into into the game. I keep pulling up directly in front of folks right before jumping into witchspace and try to suck them into the wormhole. But those plucky Anaconda pilots never get fooled.

CWolf · Post by **CWolf** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:18 pm

Not tried this trick yet! Anything I should be wary of when borrowing a wormhole? I assume it uses no fuel?

Selezen · Post by **Selezen** » Tue Jul 04, 2006 4:27 pm

Nothing major to be aware of, just that you have no way of telling where you will end up.

And no, it doesn't use any fuel.

CWolf · Post by **CWolf** » Wed Jul 05, 2006 9:56 am

Just started doing it now i hve a decent ship. So much fun! Means you ave the fuel to chase people with injectors!