EVE General Discussion

Player flown fighters for the new player stations.

Not sure if it would even be possible, but with the new first person camera I could see the ship that only fires turrets into the aiming reticle and can only be properly flown in first person. They'd have smaller sig radius than frigates and only be able to do any serious damage to frigates and destroyers, but have various missile loads for larger ships. So they can have torpedoes (but only like 4 total) or 16 heavy missiles so that each missile type takes up a certain amount of missile space. Oh, and because of how they fire they wouldn't need a target lock to actually apply turret damage. Oh course you'd need it for missiles. Maybe not the large types that could be fire in a straight line.

Or maybe I'm just drunk.

This.

Also... technical limitations.
Understand that the EVE servers "tick" about once a second... meaning that their receive, process, extrapolate, and send information to your client about once per second.
And for reference... flight simulator games and other First Person Shooters require "tick" rates in the milliseconds to have the responsiveness you are probably expecting.

What this effectively means is that dogfighting in EVE is pretty much like playing flight simulator locked at 1 frame per second.


Now why is EVE "tick" rate locked at such a slow speed?
There are a few reasons:

- it means that there is more time for the servers to process information which allows for the game to get away with not being instanced or broken up into shards (NOTE: there is a reason why most multi-player games are limited to a certain number of people)

- it means that people with very high latency (see: people who live very far from the servers) can play more or less on par with everyone else

Pass the bottle! I need it today.

Technically EVE is broken into shards, you can simply move between shards. It's also instanced to some extent which is why we can both be saving the damsel at the same time rather than fighting over saving the single damsel (which would be hilariously awesome btw).

That is technically correct, but unlike other sharded and instanced games, here 500 players could warp into your site and try to steal your damsel.

No real reason when you have frigates, destroyers, cruisers, battlecruisers, battleships, carriers, dreads, titans to defend your station/citadel.

Well I had this idea few years ago, but it would not work here because of server receiving informations from game with a low frequency, unsuitable for such games. Maybe... maybe if they would make them fly like a smaller frigates? But then again, whats the point of doing it that way? You can fly them already.