EVE New Citizens Q&A

Standard projectile weaponry is very likely to be the first weapon commonly used by space vehicles. In time, they will be replaced by more effective/accurate weapons - like lasers and electromagnetic railguns. Given that the latter two are already into development and out space program is decades if not centuries from militarizing, its even more likely that the latter two will be in a completely functional state by the time the need for them arises.

Remember, humanity is likely century from any real exploitation of space in more than a nominal form. Perhaps even more. And even when we begin to exploit and therefore live in space in number worthy of mention, the need for militarization is unlikely to have arisen yet.

Spaceships act like submarines because every time I pod someone a little more pod goo leaks out and slightly increases the viscosity of space.

Ships orienting to the same plane of reference and having a top speed (effectively a drag force) doesn't have an official explanation, but are implied to result from the same super-science that gives ships internal gravity in the lore: the intrasystem warp drives.

My interpretation from adding up bits here and there is that the intrasystem drives work by sort of 'tilting' the ship's frame of reference relative to nearby gravitational bodies when active, so that 'sitting still' briefly means going 500 to 2500 times the speed of light in whatever direction to an outside observer. The side effect of this when the drive isn't active would thus logically be a correction toward actually standing still in the reference frame determined by the gravitational environment, meaning you'll float at a fixed set of coordinates to the largest celestial body when no propulsion is active, and resist the effects of propulsion that tries to fight the effect.

Alternately, you could interpret ship orientation as part of the simulation convenience, like sound in space, asteroids and gases having visible color, etc -- a convenient way for your pod to feed you sensory data. The computer might not be giving you ship orientation simply because it's not relevant to the task of replacing the bridge crew, just like it won't tell you a ship's paint job except for the ones that Quafe paid mountains of isk to license.

Theres a few others, but basically this.

Wurm online comes to mind.

Gives me a 404 most likely due to the extra ENTER that's only visible in the editor.

Firing bullets in a "no gravity environment" is actually the best, most accurate way to fire a bullet.

Fixed that there for ya.

Blasters actually make some sense to stop working after a set distance (the plasma dissipates)

Lasers as well (you may have a very good laser. but it's still going to become diffuse at long range. Though probably not the ranges we deal with)

Lumps of metal? Not so much. Though accuracy becomes very important at long ranges, with unguided projectiles. A very small divergence can lead to a massive miss.

A little basic trig.

If you're off by 1 degree, and something is 20 miles away:

tan(1 degree) = how far off your aim is/20km
juggle that:
how far off your aim is = 20km*tan(1 degree)

20000*0.017 = 340 meters.