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Hole Punch: Sling your spaceship around gravitational fields

358 points · 87 comments · trwhite

iamwil · 1791054382 · focus · HN ↗
This is kind of a cool concept. It's like Space Golfing.
Another alternative is to make it like a turn-based Scorched Earth (Mother of all games), where you can either
1. launch asteroid size projectiles across star systems in a field of stars and black holes to it each other.
2. launch projectiles that then place black holes (perhaps either by timeout or signal--taking into account the speed of light!) to change the field.
It's a good start!
1. wmanley · 1791063713 · focus · HN ↗
  > It's like Space Golfing
  Or pool...
  I am prince of the planet potters!
2. x______________ · 1791064495 · focus · HN ↗
  >Another alternative is to make it like a turn-based Scorched Earth (Mother of all games)
  Scorched Earth <3
  Another version of this idea has been out for some time now, check out Interplanetary[0] (85% off today it seems!)
  0 <a href="https://store.steampowered.com/app/650220/Interplanetary_Enhanced_Edition/" rel="nofollow">https://store.steampowered.com/app/650220/Interplanetary_Enh...
  1. SeriousM · 1791100776 · focus · HN ↗
    And that was the inspiration for the attack in The Expanse, or was it the other way around?

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