EVE General Discussion

You know you can actually explain away the engine acceleration thing by saying they're reactionless engines, working on the same principal as the warp drive. The exhaust coming out the back would be just that - Exhaust from the reactor, pointed rearwards so it contributed rather than diminished "thrust".

That also conveniently explains how stasis webifiers work, by bending space around the ship such that the reactionless engines have to travel further on the same output power.

It ALSO conveniently explains why our ships don't have fuel, since the engines are reactionless and the only "fuel" is used to power the ship's reactor core.



As for orbital bombardment, I don't see a problem with destroyers being used for precision strikes - why on earth would you want a dreadnought blowing chunks out of your planet when all you really want to do is take down a single, small, enemy fortification so you can storm the gates of their magical space castle thingy?

That said, I do hope we can eventually destroy entire DUST battlefields with dreads :P 'Course by then they'll probably have planetary shields and surface-to-space cannons to shoot back with...

The image is either broken there or there isn't one. Alternatively, this post on another forum entirely has a legitimate image of the Project Thor concept. The problem with implementing space militarisation, though, is that once you put a weapon like this up there, everyone else is going to want to even the playing field, which means more expenditures on defence systems to maintain the system as a legitimate platform.

Same image source - Though the Prinsonplanet linked one is better resolution. Dunno why can't see it.


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VERY interesting direction for expansion, there... EVE corps researching and building obital weaopns platforms (OWP), to be deployed and anchored in space over a grid, not unlike a POCO or POS, to provide un-manned on-call aerospace bombardment strikes to their faction allies below..?

I see a whole new arena of co-operative EVE/Dust interaction, complete with fleets sieging other fleets' OWPs in coordinatino with surface assaults...

Oh, what a brave new world of conflict that yawns open before us with flaming maw...


Devs! Make this happen!

There is a lot of potential to expand on the DUST/EVE integration - what about planetside deployments of fighter squadrons from carriers? Small-scale frigate air support, where EVE pilots can break atmo and attack with precision at close range - and then the enemy deploys their own frigates and fighters, and suddenly there's a massive sky battle. As hull plating and fighter wreckage screams toward the ground, adding an additional layer of hazard to dust troops, a planetary cannon suddenly opens up on one of the frigates, blowing it to pieces.

The other frigates on the same team turn to withdraw, and the fighters attempt to provide cover, but not before a planetary webber system catches them, and the cannon starts to glow once more....

To be continued... hopefully, in a future DUST/EVE expansion

There's also the potential for the integration of a third game here - screw Star Citizen, I wanna see some aerial and aerospace combat simulation, with EVE fighters and fighter bombers. Imagine flying off the deck of that carrier, joystick in hand, safeties off, making your approach to the planet and having to get your entry angle right (there would be flight assists, of course - even modern fighters have ILS). You're at the controls of one of the most advanced starfighters in New Eden, flying into that very battle. It's a furball over the skies of the DUST bunnies, a target rich environment and you don't know what to shoot next. But you shoot and shoot and the enemy gets thinner and thinner as your squadron (all other players) thin their ranks. The frigates arrive and break atmo - the squadron leader calls them as primaries, but another fighter screen is blocking your path. SL calls it - form right echelon, blue flight takes point and hits the fighters head on, red flight breaks on engagement and goes straight in for the frigates. Suddenly, SL realises the unit is low on missiles, and calls for fighter bomber support - but up in space, the carrier pilot calls back, sorry, fighter bombers are unavailable at this time... but wait!! There is a cannon on the ground, we can deploy DUST mercs to activate it!!

So much possibility.

Wouldn't ground-based defences (big-ass weapons seen in trailers) just eliminate orbital platforms?

I like the carrier-based air support idea, though. A carrier can launch support craft such as bombers (which can be destroyed by AA equipped tanks), or can deliver additional clones via orbital dropship. Both ideas would be subject to a delay while ships deploy to the surface, but air strikes would have to be able to do something that bombardment cannot - such as dusties being able to control the craft we launch (drone uplink?) or being able to specify a strafing run after being called down from orbit.

Grief now and you drive people away.
Bide your time and they come in droves ripe for the slaughter.

how do you know if you kill anyone with a orbital strike you get some kills on your combat log or what ?

1) There will probably eventually be variable sized bombardments from each size ship.

2) Making it accessible in small ships means Dust players who jump into Eve can almost immediately turn around and engage in orbital strikes, connecting the two worlds for them.

I'm playing it now, saw a comment in local about how "without some more 'funfactor' this game is going to die"

I lolled