EVE General Discussion

It' s not the size of the gun that counts, but rather how much penetration you get.

Yes and no. EVE railguns don't appear to be kinetic kill weapons (i.e. the slamming of fast moving hunks of metal into targets) due to having ammo types, and due to how ships bounce off of each other and large objects (meaning EVE ships, stations, asteroids, etc. appear to be immune to plain old kinetic damage.)

So EVE railguns do "kinetic" damage via some other, mysterious, exotic mechanism.[1]



Subs laugh at railguns.


[1] I cast magic missile at the darkness.

Because.. Battleship is a large vessel. Actually I dont care.

Typical railgun-like projectile as a tip to a more exotic hollow round such as a canister of antimatter. To be fair though antimatter is the only particularly exotic one, though lead and iron are both odd choices because of their relative softness, and certain properties of Iridium would make it hard to use as a shell. Most of them are, however , pyrophoric to one degree or another, and so could ignite if they penetrated the hull (until the air blew out, I suppose.)

Why use anything other than antimatter? Why/how does ammo affect railgun range? If ships bounce off each other, why don't railgun rounds bounce off?

Eve railguns and RL railguns do not use the same physics to do damage (or use the same physics to reach their target.)

It's been confirmed time and again - it's not the size, it how you use it, err them.

The turret empties into space
Its already evacuated

Here on Earth there were experiments to the effect of using LASERs to evacuate a chamber prior to firing along with plasma detonation of the propellants.
Both fell through when leadership changed and they were started under the last guy
Plausible for super secret sneaky divisions to have finished the tech, frankly useless as their tiny numbers wouldnt make it useful


Railgun rounds are exceedingly fast, this allows them to bypass the warped space that so governs the area around ships
Okay so its not so much the velocity as their momentum is able to exceed the spatial bend that looks os much like a hil laround the ships

Blerg no
AM is merely an oppisitely charged state of matter, no different than building a lego house out of all blue instead of red
It has no more issues with cohesion than normal matter, and I am quite sure our fights arent going on until proton failure (though with TIDI at times, the computers might)
And since we are using an electromagnetic system for acceleration in a vacuum, oh wait I just described your average state for terrestrial AM, in space its just another spot on the list, vastly dwarfed by normal matter for an unknown reason that leaves scientists morbidly worried of something not being right

Oh and with fullerenes, AM is easy to contain, it can also be energetically liberated by the destruction of the fullerene matrix

With careful rigging I managed to mount a Heavy Missile Launcher on a Thrasher and damn it looks funny.

(With a web, TP and precision missile it's a murderous little brawler but I have not tried HAM on it yet)

If you want big guns, you may want to look into a dreadnaught. They're pretty thick and girthy. My moros is hung like a surinam toad.