Intergalactic Summit

I saw my first one today. So many questions.

1. How do those things fly, I mean, really?
2. See 1. Also when you turn around in space do you have to do it gently so bits don't fall off the sides or what.
3. I haven't seen the inside of one yet. Not planning to change that, but curious - what sort of decor is it? Do the seats hurt to sit on?
4. Can you access Galnet on one or did you have to dock to read this?

I'm serious. Inquiring minds want to know. I assume some of you fly these things.

Well, yeah, they did go through it a little, but when they talked about them being blocks of rust and glue, I thought that was just a bit of poetic exaggeration and typical Amarr Empire confidence building pep-talk stuff like what you get right though all the Institute's courses. I didn't expect to actually see strips of gaffer tape.

You minmatar races certainly are very shrewd. I don't think I'd know what to do if someone asked me to design a ship that could fly and all I had was some solar panels, corrugated iron and a glue stick.

You'll be hard pressed to find solar panels on any capsuleer vessels. Closest you'll get might be the solar sails on a certain exploration vessel capsuleers were gifted a few years back, and even they can't be properly called solar panels. I assume you're referring to the "wingy bits" on some Minmatar designs. They may indeed look like vulnerable spots, but they're merely heat sinks. Look at a Minmatar vessel in combat with an IR sensor and those wingy bits look glorious.

From what I gathered from glancing at some blueprints, a few "wingy bits" on certain ships also double as added sensors, but I think those are secondary purposes. Don't take my word as gospel there.

I don't think many will find it surprising when I praise the Minmatar ships again and again in public. I think most will actually get tired of it, by now. It's just that they're surprisingly impressive vessels. The design philosophies are certainly completely insane, but that clearly works magnificently. Solid, efficient, adaptive and overall dangerous vessels that'll perform as well or better than their rival equivalents. If they ever managed to wrap their heads around EWAR, they'd rise head and shoulders above most.

A solar panel is completely different from a solar sail, and both are downright unrelated to heat sinks. If I were new here, I'd be shocked at your display of ignorance. Your education, if it could even be called that, is quite obviously lacking.

This is quite possibly the most brain dead thread I've seen on the IGS in a while.

Which is really saying something.

So I take it the ships you saw didn't include the Maelstrom, Loki and Hurricane?

Don't let the downmarket ones like the Slasher fool you, Matari ships are just as solidly engineered and spaceworth as the efforts of any of the other empires, and come with the additional advantage of being easier to maintain and repair.

Sure, I'll take a quantum computer over an electronic one if given the option, and graviton reactors over nuclear fission, but when it comes to lightweight materials science, high-performance propulsion and getting the most performance out of what you have, the Minmatar are a tough act to beat. I'm told the standard-issue dropsuit being used by clone mercs right now is actually just a repurposed version of the vacuum hardsuits used by dock workers.

This. Matari ships have incredible tensile strength for the weight of materials used.



See the point above. It's remarkable to watch them maneuver.



Wait... Seriously? Superior EWAR? Come on. You were doing pretty well until you claimed THAT. EWAR is one of the areas that Minnie ships don't do so well in.



If her education was defficient then she OUGHT to speak out.

There's a Gallente First person Shooter holo-game out where 9 year old kids are led to the belief that the guns with cooler paint schemes are better, than the ones with the default colors, yet the two are exactly the same statistic wise.

So basically what I'm saying here is you are about as intelligent as a 9 year old.

Better stay in school for a bit longer.

I swear it's true, cross my heart and hope to die. My mum's cousin's sister in law is married to a Sebbie, and there's something slightly gone wrong with his fillings. At night, yeah? At night, when they's asleep, and he begins to snore, it triggers this malfunction in his teeth, yeah, and they begin to broadcast Jita Local, loud enough for her to hear. She said it was well creepy the first couple times, but she's used to it by now.

That reminds me, I should really check in on them. They's kinda struggling lately, I heard. Got taken by a scam, the silly woman.