i believe that radiation does damage your sheilds, and that if you actually hit the sun you will exploded, that is if the heat didn't kill you first.

I rule the world incognito!

The shields will not protect you from the star's radiation/heat when you are close to it. It will start eating your hull right through them! You can get pretty close to stars, but I don't recomend it. They can kill you pretty quick

You can kind of do that with planets. You get a warning that your entering the atmosphere and you ship starts to burn up and you see flames and smoke on your ship. I tried it twice, once I pulled back before I got too far, I went and saved the game and tried it again and you eventually burn up and explode. You could try it and see how close you can get to the planet and even fly in the atmosphere.

Ok, thanks.

Maybe there are some secrets hidden close to a star so that you have to risk dying by the sun to reach it? That's just a rethorical question, btw. Please don't answer it, i wanna find out myself.

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"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed."

Lev - mail me if you find something in your diving experiences

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HEY DUDE!!!!

Think you got it all: a fast ship, loadsa cash, ample free time and a complete disregard for personal saftey?

COME JOIN THE SUNRUNNERS!

The hottest spots in Sirius is calling you all. No such thing as the COLD vacuum of space where we're going dude!

Skim as close to the sun as possible, but don't go too deep man or you'll burn out.

Catch the Craziest Corona in the Cluster. Ride the Solar Flare with the best and maybe you'll be good enough for the HOTTEST race in space! Can you handle the NOVA RUN?

On the edge of the Border Worlds, through a secret jump hole known only the most radical surfers lies a star about to explode. Go on in, past the gravitational breakers, wait for the BIG KAHUNA BABY, and RIDE that shock wave! This sort of thing only happens once in a star's lifetime. The prize is to SURVIVE, and become the greatest RUNNER ever!

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Come HANG TEN with the SUNRUNNERS!

Hook up with us in CALIFORNIA system and get ready for the ride of your life.

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Lol Kivuli, I think I'll stick to pirating. ( :

CHICKEN! (j/k )

"If this is what you want to do, you'll do it, no matter how long it takes..........and usually the longer it takes the more fun you've had!"

all this Sun Diving stuff reminds me of Outlaw Star, it that series they hide an awsome ship close to a sun so people won't go near it,



Edited by - Godlike Entity on 17-02-2003 23:33:50

hehehe, fun but no thanks, spaeking of atmosphereic entry.... if you were to go in at extremely slow velocity and shallow angle could u go in really deep and then like stop ur engine go into total blackout and hide inside the planet?
Phoenix out


From this celestial bough all but one did fall into the pitiless fires of reach.
A soldier’s ignominy to have dreamt while his brothers bled. But oh, for the rest of us his shame was our salvation.

Well, to answer one of his questions, the sun does get bigger. The light gets pretty intense to the point where all you see is white (depending on the colour of the star).

@Bargib

Yup, i will let you know when i do.

@Kivuli

lol. Great stuff. I think that's gonna be my career.

@ElectricBrain

Thanks, so it's gonna be almost like Elite and pretty realistic. I was afraid that the stars were only background objects which you couldn't reach at all.

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"In all likelihood you're going to die out there. We're all going to die out there, but none of us needs to be reminded of that fact. So you die, you never existed."

Good to see confirmation of the fact though I pretty much expected that you could fly to the suns given that DA made a big deal about being able to fly to everything else you see in space.

"If this is what you want to do, you'll do it, no matter how long it takes..........and usually the longer it takes the more fun you've had!"

Where is this Sunrunner job listed? I have visited trhe Freelancer website and it doesn't show up on the job section, where can I find infor about it?