Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Good idea, but probably waay too much work. But other than giving Neil deGrasse Tyson some peace of mind this would seriosly mess up instand undocks and tactical jumpbridge placements.

I would say that unless they also add decreased warp speed close to planetsry objects, this change would be more annoying than "tactical".

+1 though

Also remember that only temperate planets that orbit the sun at 1 au are allowed close to an sctual year though, all other planets/objects would have to be mathed out correctly. If done right it might spawn an astronomers corp that fly around celebrsting eclipse events

Very true on the 1 a/u. Jump bridges should still work just based on the system they were placed in. As to the insta docks yes it would, but once every so often it would work fine. You would just need to have more of them. I also forgot to mention that the distance between stargates would increase or decrease over time, adding to another factor for travel and fights. All in all it causes the eve player to think in a new manner its change and people are resistant to change.

He is talking about the strategy behind placing a bridge. This idea would remove that for long term bridges.


Also no one wants to have even more bms to look through

Actually with citadels and tethering, the instant undocks wouldn't really matter anymore. As for me talking about temparate planets; I was actually going to start a rsnt about how they would have to move temparate planets to the goldilocks zone around 1 au, and then take it's size into account vs the sun etc, but I'm actually not knowledgeable on the specifics so i lazily edited it out and ended up with my current reply. Anywho.. yes.. I still like this idea, but I'd rather they fix problems instead of adding new random things to an already bloated jumbled mess.. /rant

Just pretend the stars rotate, everything else in that system just happen to rotate at the same speed making it look stationary :P

I remember a text based Star Trek game I played 20 years ago that had planets/stations that moved. About once a month entire ship crews had to remake their characters because someone would launch from a planet or undock and forget to immediately move the ship, causing the planet/station to crash into it.

Great times.

First, learn to use search please.

Second, try to educate yourself beyond "oh, it all should rotate". Right now, if to take your suggestion about "one year cycle for them all" almost nothing will change, except that you may notice some change in a look of a system map after a couple months, if you try really hard ( and probably, if you have taken a screenshot two months ago). Basically, everything will stay in place, just the general angle in a system view would change. But underneath mechanics will require a serious dev job and countless server ticks nevertheless. Where is the profit ?

If to make celestial mechanics realistic, instead of the illiterate initial proposal, not so many things will change either. Distances between inner planets and moons will change considerably, in a course of months. What bright change this should bring into gameplay, I have no idea. Positions of many outer planets will not change much not only during months, or even years, but during the whole lifetime of EVE. Woops.

Obviously, that would completely broke the bookmark mechanics. Some workarounds may be made, which basically will return everything back, so where is the profit again ?

In the end, you will have forced the servers to make thousands and thousand of calculations every tick, so in a few months you can compare two screenshots of a system map... and what of it ?

I will expect perfect, real physics when we have Matrix-style plug-into-the-back-of-your-head virtual reality interface for EVE, in 60 years.

Until then, -1. This isn't needed and is one of the last things I'd put work into to improve immersion. A million other things could improve immersion first and do it better.

Eve is a knifefighting submarine SIM ... Let's not talk about realism.

1 earth year? 1 mercury year? 1 planetoid X year?

It seems like a lot of work and math just to screw up all the bookmarks in the game. I would say that logically, if my ship and its onboard computers can warp beyond the speed of light, navigate a wh and all the other stuff - they should be able to account for all that motion and make it invisible to me.

20 years ago you had to continually move your telescope to keep up with the moon. Now you point it at a star and tell it "star" and it auto compensates for everything. (you just have to keep the battery charged)