EVE General Discussion

Power is easily obtained without huge, fragile solar arrays that give off huge sensor returns and are likely to be flown through by bored capsuleers.
Way easier just to have a reactor of some kind, and vent excess heat into space.

Everyone who claims coolant savings are ********.

Unless of course you are assuming an RP reason for orbital mechanics being turned off, e.g. god turned off the switch so we can now put things in permanently shadowed non-langrage points. (Real Lagrange points are much further out than any station in the EVE universe)

In order to really 'vent' heat in space would require a 'venting' medium a gas can work so can an ejectable heat sink (think mass effect 2).

As long as you are not trying to over retain heat in your designs it shouldn't matter as much. However this is where heat piping comes into passive stealthing.

Although science fiction experts would argue otherwise. They fail at the concept of stealthing, to some degree is true on thier grounds, which misses the entire military point of view concerning stealth. The idea of having a small electronic footprinti which isnt to entirley hide from the enemy its but to avoid haivng targeting solution against them. As normally a electronic footprint of oh say a civillian craft is much higher than that of military types because designing such elements into civillian craft are often cost prohibitive but not always.

Either way space is cold you want some passive heating if the station is far out enough from the primary and you can easily harvest all the radiation in a science fiction world to be useful in various other places. I can understand dark siding a station if they where a station in an orbit like mercury.

Overall there is a nice topic of orbiting things on the FnI forum that would do away with the entire bookmark issue which would be to have all bookmarks be points of reference instead of xyz, move entire grids, and base the orbitals on a multiplier of a clock. That way book marks will also orbit and never run into the problem of all of a sudden finding itself in the middile of a planet unless.. it just happens to be the point of reference is far out enough to intersect one.

Also has anyone measured the planets to see if they're the right size? or am I feeling they're still albit too small. Also rings they need to be made real. instead of paper thin.

Everyone knows you can only gate from Lagrange points...

All this actual physics makes me want to play Independence War On-Line.
( nostalgia: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7AsRQXOUSY )