So I suddenly realized when you implement the ability to chunk rocks to the planets would it not give the player the ability to do so at the sun as well and how would it affect the environment if this was done. as I would think it should affect the planets in some way, either increasing the sun's mass or causing it to jet out hot plasma, random directions, putting planets in danger of being fried burnt planet sun eating the planet
I can't find the source right now, but Neutrino has said in the past that he's leaning more toward the sun just being a background object; basically, it wouldn't be something you can modify. Harder to say now, since there are very shaky murmurs going around about orbital mechanics and such, but as it stands right now, I would think this is not going to be added in vanilla.
hmm OK, I remember that my self and the talk about what you just said made me think they might have other plans going on whit celestial body's. But its cool its one thing less to worry about sins what I mention would be a rather sneaky way to kill an opponent and would rather not see that.
What would that really add to the game though...? Faster planetary rotation? Hotter surface? Mreh... the game is about killing robots. Not a galaxy simulator.
Asteroids hit our sun all the time. Do we on Earth feel the effects? Just think about it.... something that hot, that big. Even if you hurled the Earth at the sun, and EVEN if it didn't vaporize before it hit... what would happen? You wouldn't move the sun, and you wouldn't be adding a lot of mass percentage wise. Now would Mars be effected by this? My guess, probably not at all. The sun is 333,000 times bigger than the Earth. So that would be like throwing a grain of sand at a rock the size of a basketball.
do remember they are not going for realism at all, and actually when rocks hit our sun it those cause it to jet out hot plasma usually of the materiel that intruded into it, we see em more or less as solar flairs. Some caused by the sun it self other by objects colliding into it
Sigh, I really regret how they edited that. You should read this (entire) thread; viewtopic.php?p=545971#p545971 Mike
Only thing I could consider using the sun for would be gravitational slingshots. Or perhaps altering an enemy asteroid's trajectory into the sun, if it would save you resources.
If we're talking about realistic physics, when going around a solar system, you can't slingshot around the star, you spend the same energy getting close as you do getting out. You can slingshot around planets to steal their momentum relative to the star, but a star has no momentum relative to itself to steal. Also, making something fall into the sun is far more energy expensive than pushing it into just about any other orbit. It's never cheap, and it would probably just vaporize over a few minutes and not be much bother to most anyone (see asteroids burning up in our atmosphere).
The reason we are still alive talking about it is because of the magnetic field (I think) around the earth that will disperse and protect our planet from these flairs and solar winds. Not all planets would necessarily have this.
