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Khergit Deserters
Crom's Angels
#21 - 2012-09-10 21:10:32 UTC
Why doesn't CONCORD leave me alone and do something about all the Angels, Guristas, Blood Raiders, Sanshas, and rogue drones?
stoicfaux
#22 - 2012-09-10 21:15:19 UTC
Khergit Deserters wrote:
Why doesn't CONCORD leave me alone and do something about all the Angels, Guristas, Blood Raiders, Sanshas, and rogue drones?

Because that would be profiling, and profiling is bad, m'kay?

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Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#23 - 2012-09-10 21:25:05 UTC
Are asteroids alive? If you kill one, it seems to regenerate.
Jafit
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#24 - 2012-09-10 21:32:23 UTC
Why do individual exotic dancers weigh 50kg per m^3, but groups of exotic dancers weigh 1000kg per m^3?
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#25 - 2012-09-10 21:37:35 UTC
Who put all those custom stations in the wormholes? Some kind of Boy Scouts summer project maybe?
Vincent Athena
Photosynth
#26 - 2012-09-10 21:43:07 UTC  |  Edited by: Vincent Athena
How can 5000 units of Tritanium, having a total volume of 50 cubic meters, fit into a piece of scrap metal with a volume of 0.01 cubic meter? Its like I took my car to the car crusher and a cube of steel 10 meters on a side was produced.

Edit: How come some stars have an age of over 20 billion years when the universe is only 14 billion years old?

Edit2: CCP, these may seem like just fun, "we are bored" questions, but many point to some aspect of the game that is immersion breaking. You have said immersion is important, that "Eve is real" and so on. Maybe you need to take a look at some of this.

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#27 - 2012-09-10 21:49:04 UTC
I was going to go with "how is babby formed?" but instead I'm going for

How does a microwave manage to turn half of your food into molten lava while the rest remains colder than the Artic tundra?

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

New Player FAQ

Feyd's Survival Pack
Telegram Sam
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#28 - 2012-09-10 22:11:49 UTC  |  Edited by: Telegram Sam
When am I going to get some shore leave, so I can go down to a planet and party?
Hypercake Mix
#29 - 2012-09-10 22:14:42 UTC
Do celestials move?
Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#30 - 2012-09-10 22:17:56 UTC
Where did so much water come from to fill the entire universe??? Shocked

I'm in it for the money

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Jonah Gravenstein
Machiavellian Space Bastards
#31 - 2012-09-10 22:19:43 UTC
Webvan wrote:
Where did so much water come from to fill the entire universe??? Shocked


That's easy, tears.

In the beginning there was nothing, which exploded.

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Karn Dulake
Doomheim
#32 - 2012-09-10 22:40:49 UTC
How comes there are so many damaged and lonely people playing this game?


(Not trolling this time. Its incredible as a percentage)
I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion.
Herping yourDerp
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#33 - 2012-09-10 22:51:17 UTC
how come 8 turret hardpoints = 16+ weapons that can only fire at a maximum of 8 people at a time, if there is an enemy on the left and right of my ship i should be able to fire at both.

how come weapons go straight through anything I am not targeting to hit ( or miss ) what I am aiming at, you cannot hide behind a titan =(
Valentine Silverfox
Kr 4d10 5s1
#34 - 2012-09-10 23:40:11 UTC
Vincent Athena wrote:


Edit: How come some stars have an age of over 20 billion years when the universe is only 14 billion years old?




Who ever said that the EVE gate could only link two places within the same universe? And who says that all universes are equal?
Valentine Silverfox
Kr 4d10 5s1
#35 - 2012-09-10 23:42:51 UTC
Herping yourDerp wrote:
how come 8 turret hardpoints = 16+ weapons that can only fire at a maximum of 8 people at a time, if there is an enemy on the left and right of my ship i should be able to fire at both.

how come weapons go straight through anything I am not targeting to hit ( or miss ) what I am aiming at, you cannot hide behind a titan =(




8 guns = 16 weapons due to firing arc. Each one of your guns has a limited firing arc, they cannot point inwards and fire through the ship, so turrets are mirrored in different places on each ship in EVE, this gives the pilot almost 100% coverage.

As to a shell going straight through one ship to strike at a target, that is entirely down to the needless complexities that line of sight firing would cause in EVE.
Valentine Silverfox
Kr 4d10 5s1
#36 - 2012-09-10 23:48:33 UTC
Hypercake Mix wrote:
Do celestials move?



In EVE, no. Realistic celestial mechanics would make life in EVE very difficult. For a start bookmarks would be entirely useless, and before you say it, remember that any object you warp to anywhere in EVE has a bookmark. Planets, gates, moons all have the equivalent of bookmarks, stationary points in space that do not change.

Having those points in constant motion would require never ending calculations and never ending updates to any and all bookmarks held by over 750 thousand individual pilots. That kind of strain would kill the servers in a matter of minutes. So its easier to just have everything be stationary.
Valentine Silverfox
Kr 4d10 5s1
#37 - 2012-09-10 23:59:28 UTC
Surfin's PlunderBunny wrote:
stoicfaux wrote:
Uris Vitgar wrote:
How are you able to see what's behind you when travelling thousands of times faster than light?

Speaking of which, if you really are traveling thousands of times faster than light, and light has mass, how much damage do our ships incur by running into photons?



Actually this has been answered, something with the warp tunnel being in a different realm or something. Still working out my plan to warp into and orbitally bombard Azaroth Pirate



The idea, I believe, is that when our ships warp core activates, it forms a bubble around the vessel and then shunts it in to a lower dimension. From what we see in EVE it appears that the dimensional layers are thin enough that a pilot can see through to the layer above them whilst in warp, like looking through a slightly frosted window.
ISD Suvetar
ISD Community Communications Liaisons
ISD Alliance
#38 - 2012-09-11 00:03:58 UTC  |  Edited by: ISD Suvetar
Moved from General Discussion to the Out of pod experience.

Thanks and fly safe!

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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#39 - 2012-09-11 00:09:09 UTC
ISD Suvetar wrote:
Moved from General Discussion to thte Out of pod experience.

Thanks and fly safe!


But.. but... these are questions about Eve Sad

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Paul Oliver
Doomheim
#40 - 2012-09-11 00:12:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Paul Oliver
Edit - Removed because ISD Suvetar rocks.
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