Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Should this be based on real-life warp drives? Since we're being 'realistic' and all :)

Alignment is determined by reaching a sufficient velocity on a given vector. When a ship is fully stopped it has zero velocity and no defined vector. When a vector for a ship is undefined it effectively has no alignment. You can see this effect when using multiple clients that enter the same grid at different times; each may render another ship in a different direction since it basically has to 'guess'.

tl;dr - this isn't a problem

Welp. Troll trap.

Why when we talk about the enhancing game mechanics is a troll trap ?

The technique you suggest me is useful during a fleet battle. It is not helpful when the vessel is completely stopped (example mining session).

And this is the reason I post this request for modification.

And that is precisely what I would like CCP changes.
In that request (see OP), the gain in time is a few seconds as the ship would take to align.
In addition, it adds more realism in games.

There is nothing to gain as you can turn faster than you accelerate. Your change would either be a nerf to all align time in the game OR change nothing at all.

Internet space submarine knife fighting sim and he talks about realism...definitely trolling.

If you want to see why a ship has to be in motion to be aligned, bog down your bandwidth and warp around in your pod for a bit. Pod's have zero align time, so they pretty well warp instantly. If your latency is high enough, you can actually see this effect as your pod will often enter warp sideways. The game doesn't actually know which way your ship is facing at all times. If you're motionless, it has to guess.

If I'm not mistaken, this is because our "ships" are actually just spheres atop which a ship model sits. But the game doesn't take the ship model into account when warping, only the sphere that is your ship's actual entity. Meaning that your ship can warp before it is visually aligned, and the ship model will have to catch up. This is simple for a ship with zero align time. The game doesn't have to worry about figuring out which side is the "front" of your sphere because the "front" instantly faces the direction it needs to.

But for ships with align time, the game needs to know which direction is "front", otherwise everyone would be able to warp of in any direction instantly, regardless of which way they're flying, and align time wouldn't matter because the ship would never actually need to align. The only way for the game to tell which way is "front" and "back" on your ship is if you're in motion. Ships can't fly backwards, at least not in Eve, so if you're in motion, "front" can only be one way.

The whole question would stop coming back if the engine just left your model at the angle it was when you stopped it. I'd really like to know why it was made so the model of the ship would "align" back to the current "rest" state where it is always parallel to the horizon.

Evidently not