Player Features and Ideas Discussion

All EVE stars are binaries, according to lore, as the stargates require the complex gravitational interactions to function.

To be honest, that brings up more pressing matters, such as the precarious nature of planetary systems around binaries, and the fact that one star appears to be missing...

Sure, they do form, but their orbits tend to be ... weird. And mostly unstable.

As for your other point, I read in the background story area ("First of all, jump gates can only be constructed in systems with two or more suns, because of the resonance nodes." - http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/scientific-articles/interstellar-traveling/) that the orbiting stars generate gravitational waves (which is scientifically sound), and that stargates can only be situated at certain nodes of the resulting vibration, where the gate mechanism traps these and forces the resonance to build up into a fairly stable wormhole.
Which is why it bother me, ever since I read that article, that none of the stars in EVE are actually binaries...

No they aren't. Have you looked at the stars? They aren't binary. Not a single one.
If they are I don't think its very realistic for both stars to have exactly the same size and color in every situation and be touching.
Also planets do form around binary stars.

I think your confusion comes from the fact that the Eve stargates require a binary star system to be BETWEEN the two points.


Also I think its rare for most planets to be less than 1 AU from their star in this game.

Oh yea the temperate planet is 100au out, sounds legit.

Sure, they do form, but their orbits tend to be ... weird. And mostly unstable.

As for your other point, I read in the background story area ("First of all, jump gates can only be constructed in systems with two or more suns, because of the resonance nodes." - http://community.eveonline.com/backstory/scientific-articles/interstellar-traveling/) that the orbiting stars generate gravitational waves (which is scientifically sound), and that stargates can only be situated at certain nodes of the resulting vibration, where the gate mechanism traps these and forces the resonance to build up into a fairly stable wormhole.
Which is why it bother me, ever since I read that article, that none of the stars in EVE are actually binaries...

The EVE system is an enigma that is still very much a mystery to us. The system itself is not that impressive – just some space debris and a few asteroid belts orbiting a pale white dwarf.

Later versions of jump gates allowed the jump gates to hold the wormhole open for a longer time and modern day jump gates can keep a wormhole connection open for several dozen years before it has to be reset.

Secondly, only one jump gate can be in operation in a system at any given time.

By locking the capacitor onto one of these signals, the ship travels to it. The bubble is then automatically dispersed once certain distance from the gravity well is acquired. The only problem is that these capacitors can only efficiently pick up signals from gravity wells of certain size or above, with the minimum being a small moon or a cluster of asteroids. Also, in order for the gravity capacitor to align correctly on the destination object in relevance to the position of the sun, it must follow a relatively narrow route towards it, resulting in a fairly restricted emerge area for the ship. This puts some limits on the jump drive’s usage, but as all major objects in a system can be detected, this is not such a great problem. Furthermore, it is now possible to construct ‘fake’ gravity wells on space stations and jump gates, which can be detected and thus homed onto by the gravity capacitor that is part of a ship’s jump drive.