Ships & Modules

Once upon the time EVE was a shiny brilliant, created with an understanding of science fiction. Every detail was logical and well fitted to an entire mechanism.
But after the begining of new era we find ourself cutted of from old traditions. We lost our roots.

I don't know who is this new genius, who decide himself (or herself) clever enough to overwrite the laws of science fictions and basics of gamedesign. I don't want to know. And don't want to judge this person.

But i wish to ask you - what about his next step? We already have Bastion modules and Mobile depots working on "holy spirit". No fuel needed.
3000 m3 structure with 50m3 volume if packed. Foil?


And as the final mark - we have the mightiest capital ships completely defenceless against some sort of very fast and small enemies. Because they lost their dronebays. Explain me please - are the starship engineers complete idiots? In all 4 empires? Or maybe we should fit some space elves with mighty bows on their armor to oppose a stealthbombers?
If you're not able to follow a simple logic, maybe you should not design any games with scientific basement? Or maybe not? Who knows...

Just like the death star can destroy planets, it can be destroyed by a single small fighter.

Which laws are these?

You actually are able to create something from nothing. Just because you can't find out what source gives you this "nothing" and how this "nothing" turns into "something". But anyway there are some rules to make this "wonder" work. You know - some specific machinery, some technical solutions, which are familiar to you in their concept.
Or as example some kind of well known technic, you're not able to make real. Dark energy power generator, railgun, antimatter bomb. You know what it is, but you don't know how to create a working prototype.

The worst offender in this regard has to be missile explosions .In eve if you are small enough you can somehow be unaffected by explosions that have totally engulfed you interesting science for sure.

I don't understand why missiles, especially kinetic damage missiles, that are guided by quantum computers don't explode in contact with the target. Of course this would negate the explosion radius/velocity numbers and would create another mega-nerf aimed at missile pilots instead of just creating an innate missile tracking/agility factor that would make it difficult for cruise missiles to impact a moving frigate.
Just my thought

It show the game represent the fact taht if you try to shoot a jet sky with a cruise missile in real world you must be incredbly lucky to hit at all.

Same way if you try to shot down a butterfly with an AIM-9X

Game design is a very broad topic. I'd say that the logarithmic power progression (in power vs time/cost) we tend to see in Eve is pretty good design. I'd also say that keeping track of edge cases that throw the power progression out of whack is good for the game. So, if game design dictates that dreads don't have drones anymore, I'm ok with that.

Though, at this rate I somewhat believe that the initial efforts to defang bigger craft to allow smaller craft to flourish may need rolled back some now that the smaller craft have been outright buffed. I bet CCP has some hard data on that though, and will get around to it when the balancing wheel comes around.

-Liang

Barrogh has got it right. Trying to design Eve based around real-life logic or science is just straight up idiotic.

Depots are just bigger from the inside.