EVE General Discussion

1. Why do ships stop before they warp. As the ship attains enough speed to switch warp on, you're switching from impulse to warp engines but basic physics says the ship should keep moving. Is there any reason why CCP shouldn't make this fundamental fail work properly?

2. Ship attitudes: I come to a stop after a ship movement that had a vertical component. My ship is pointing upwards or downwards but, pretty soon, it's horizontal. Why?? Space is three-dimensional. Wherever I come to a stop, that's where my ship should remain.

For me, these two fails break the illusion - and they break Newton's First Law. Come on CCP, fix this simple stuff...

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Trying to decide between him being a troll or a muppet....

Also.
When in warp, why do the engines keep going?

1. a wizard did it.

2. so we don't spill our beer.

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Here, let me fix this:

New Eden is in a parallel dimension where the laws of physics work somewhat differently than the one from which our race originates. The Eden Gate, originally thought to be a wormhole across space, was in reality a "tear" in space-time itself that allowed travel between the two universes for a short time. In the New Eden universe, space has strange fluid properties that cause ships to slow to a stop without active propulsion and cannot accelerate indefinitely, as the "drag" of this reality will eventually cause you to reach an equilibrium, achieving a maximum speed. This drag seems to dissipate as a body's gravity field increases, which is why planets are able to orbit as normal, but asteroids never disperse from belts.

The "stop before warp" effect is caused by the warp engines "bending" the fluid space around them so they can travel at FTL speeds. The effect causes a brief moment where the space directly in front of the ship becomes impassably dense, causing your craft to come to a stop before the warp tunnel is formed and you are propelled down it.

This same fluid space also enables faster-than-light communication by some mechanic I don't feel like inventing, which allows the instantaneous communications and cloning technologies we possess...things which would violate the laws of physics in the old universe.

See, the game doesn't need to follow real physics, it only needs to be internally consistent.

Hmm, you're beginning to convince me. Except asteroid and planet movements aren't consistent either. Noticed how 'roids and 'bergs sort of roll around on their own? And ships kind of wobble about gently when left untended? Planets don't do that...

But I don't really care - I can live with it. But my ships on the other hand, I do care about.

Just don't tell me it's only a game or the doctors will come and take me away :)

Because obviously Newton's laws apply when you're traveling at faster than light speeds.