Why stop at Weaponized Moons?

Hi everyone, I'm Yarrik, I backed the game, though I'm waiting for the release proper. I'm sad but no worries.

So I had an idea that is probably the most terrible/awesome thing. Why stop at weaponized moons? Certainly we can find a way to weaponize planets themselves.

Perhaps compressing Gas Giants into Black Holes. Certainly should be doable?

This poll is Biased and thus worthless.

Mike

I'd have to say MAKE IT SO!

why black holes the next step up from gas giant is a brown dwarf i think a new star would work well enough for what you are looking for

You have no sense of fun, sir.

Only if we can put boosters onto the newly created star and hurl it at our enemies

+1

Take a black hole and make a rail gun.

PS: do a barrel roll!

It's biased but funny. Personally I don't care for it. Good idea for a mod mind you if you or a group of people really wanted it.

You have no sense of constructive discussion, lady.

I don't think it is a good idea. We already have orbital cannons, nukes and kinetic bombardment, and even goddamn Death Stars. There is no point in adding more superweapons.

At one point you have to say no to new features. Feature creep is the bane of any gaming project. (or project in general!)

What will black holes do?

Sure the idea sounds cool, but will it be fun to actually use/do?

Black holes slow time down, sucks stuff into them.

So suddenly not only is time going slower for you. someone can outproduce you on another planet. But your planet will be sucked into the blackhole. so you have x amount of mines to get off.

Would actually be pretty damn cool. Especially when you think about galatic war.

I don't know how it'd have any effect on GW.

Considering that black wholes will rip the atomic structure of... Anything to shreds before it could get even close to the event horizon... Yeah...

I mean, unless you could somehow form a strong nuclear field around a planet. Which would crush it instantly...

I think black holes should be restricted to Red Mattering/Plot Devicing a planet to death.

QFT. Pools are not here to force your idea.

Otherwise I like the idea, it would force a kinda of sudden death and it would be awesome, but I doubt it would have any other practical use.

Suddenly compressing a gas giant to a black hole would change nothing. It would still have the exact same gravity well as before, albeit an infinitely small volume.
If you would like to do some damage with it you would have to hurl it at someone before you collapse it and, well, we can already do that...

Compress the Gas giant all you want. There's not enough mass to make it a black hole.

Any object compressed to a radius smaller than its Schwarzschild radius (proportional to its mass) will become a black hole. Thing is, moving an asteroid with some honkin' big engines I can possibly get, but I'd imagine you'd need to harness a significant fraction of the output of the system's star to compress a gas giant.

At which point, why would you even need to.