Player Features and Ideas Discussion

So, you would rather the force vector send your meal into a wall, rather than pushing it firmly down on the table in front of you. Personally, I don't want to have spend more money on janitors to clean the last batch of janitors that get flung into a bulkhead every time I align out from Jita.

Warp doesn't play with inertia. Its entire point is to circumvent F=mv^2, as you aren't accelerating the mass past c, but rather stretching/compressing space outside the bubble. You would experience no sensation of acceleration when entering warp, so neither artificial gravity nor inertial dampeners are necessary to survive. (You do, however, need some way to disperse the shockwave of high-energy particles your ship will release upon arrival, otherwise you kill everything at your destination).

1. what does there being no atmosphere in space have to with it?

2. spaceships dont have wings? tell star trek that since you want to quote them with romulan ale and 10-forward

3. perhaps the banking the ships have to do is to align maneuvering thrusters around so it can push the way you want to go, every seen the shuttle discovery fire thrusters other then its main engine? i have, even satellites use it too

4. the hard banks are generally when you sit still as the maneuvering thrusters just have to fire against the direction you wish to go IE you want to go left from a stand still, the thrusters on the right fire turning you left. How ever the reason why large ships turn like whales while moving is the maneuvering thrusters fire while the main engines are still sending you forward making your course in an arch. Now im assuming you drive a car so imagine doing a U-Turn, your front wheels you use to turn are your maneuvering thrusters, (a car can be front wheel, rear wheel, or 4 wheel drive) is your main thrusters, doing that U-turn your path is an arch, but you can do a point turn with a "hard bank" by turning your front wheels and keeping them from moving while your wheel wheels (on a rear wheel drive car) shift the rear end of the car around to the direction you want to go with out any forward movement, its something i do for fun in my small pick-up.

disclaimer: do not try these stunts at home, personal injury may result. Stunts are best left for professionals.

We've been waiting for the elimination of "up" in Eve-space since the game launched. Based on that, how long do you think it would take?

Star Destroyers turn at an absolutely glacial pace, similar to how an ocean liner turns. I've never seen a depiction where they turn on a dime like in Eve.

The Enterprise has battles in the middle of nowhere, runs into "blockades" that stretch out along a line a few hundred kilometers long in 3-dimensional space. And despite being able to turn inertia on and off, its primary combat strategy is to stay in a single spot and press F1. I think it's safe to say that nothing about Star Trek should be taken as a model for how things work in space.

Battlestars have three pieces of stockfootage where they travel in a straight line, and Starbuck is a man. Anything else is heresy.

Ah this is only partially correct. Aircraft can execute exactly the same turn with significantly less angle of bank, or turn significantly faster with greater angles of bank provided you are willing to literally toss people and items around the cabin. How much a modern commercial airliner banks for any given speed and rate of turn is careful controlled to keep the g forces on the passengers in control and prevent them and the items in the cabin from being thrown about. These g forces would apply in space even though there is no air so at least some form of bank would be needed to overcome them.

As for the animation for warp align it is all a matter of personal preference but it would be interesting for CCP to eliminate or significantly reduce it to see what the reaction from the game community would be.

Well, they also "compress" the vacuum... but after reading the description, I admit: I have no idea how Eve's warp drives are actually supposed to work, but I'm fairly certain there's a witch involved.

You forgot goat's blood and a shrubbery.

You understand that thousands of capitals have used warp to get from system to system for years and this hasn't caused a problem. CCP has even stated that the reason the caps do this is because the align faster then there model as when they make the model move as fast as the align time it looks off and has odd effects like the ship jumping and snapping into place the current visual representation we have is the best solution they have found thus far.

Aha. Good to know!
Although . . . definitely a narrative cop out.

Do you have a link?

i think its less of a cop out and more because it looks more natural to the majority of players that they wen't with this (some what may have also been do to limitations...the games old man)