EVE General Discussion

I'm pretty sure a Titan warping at 1.5AU/s is pretty fast

Lol I was talking about ships in normal flight

did they measure that speed in the film studios in area 51? impressive :P

You're comparing video game mechanics to real physics. This is your error, because for the sake of gameplay, we have to keep things simple.

There was an Xplane game about a decade back I remember playing that gave you a few hypothetical spacefighters and I remember putting them to the test with some friends. No engagement ever took place because whenever an intercept was attempted, the inertia was always too great for practical turning into the engagement. Not just that, but as we passed our intercept targets, they only appeared for a brief fraction of a second before disappearing from view behind us because they were just moving too damn fast relative to us.

Ever since then, I've always wondered what a space combat game with real orbital physics might be like. You could, theoretically, engage ships in a high enough orbit with a proper intercept trajectory but if your targets were to see you coming, they could shift their orbit to avoid the intercept. Likewise, you could shift yours as well to set up a new intercept. But what might happen once you made engagement range? Well, if the orbit is too low, maneuvering of any kind might simply be out of the question, because you'd risk deorbiting and if your objective is to stay in space, you've got a problem. In that case, it might just be a straight-up shootout with whatever's coming to intercept you.

With a high enough orbit though, some low-speed maneuvering might actually be possible, and you could well see some close-up space battle action, but the speeds of engagement relative to one another would have to be low, while your orbital speed could remain quite high. Each ship maneuvering around other ships, though, would be shifting its own orbit in the process to some degree or another, but that's the thing - EVE, like most other space games, doesn't bother with gravity, while reality does, and that complicates how real space combat might go down.

greaaaaaat. one of you people.

my linked dram approaches 11k/s

and has absurd agility.

Relative to what?

Ship speeds were set to levels that make the game enjoyable and balanced to play. Man. That's really a mindblowing revelation, Edgar.

As for normal speed, eve spaceships go 0 m/s at normal speed, because they are neither normal nor real. If you're referring to the maximum speed of the ship, than warp drive IS its normal speed, as that is how the ship propels itself. You dont say that the normal speed of a lungfish is how fast it can wriggle on land when comparing it to how fast a pig can move, you compare it at it's top sustainable speed. Its normal.

So no, eve space ships are not slow. Even the absolute slowest of ships in Eve completely blows anything real and current out of the water.

Casuals.

Voyager 1 is doing 61,000 km/h on by far the best road trip ever.

In real space real combat would be next to impossible.

There are only a few earth based systems that can shoot a rocket travelling at high speeds.

Hence I think the future will be lasers and "spall". Machines will "predict" where the target is going and rely on pattern bursts and "metalstorm" guns (multiple projectiles per cartridge).

Presently a guided air to air missile is supersonic, some I think fly at Mach 7 or more. But unless the target is coming or going it's not going to hit and even if faster than a target, there stands to be a good chance of running out of fuel before reaching it (assuming the target is tallied from "the usual distance" which is tens of miles).

If this were a true space sim game there would hardly be any PVP.

Not really, you just can't have dogfights or drones.
Combat will look more like what we do in battleships at long range than anything else.