EVE New Citizens Q&A

Okay... how about he change it to "they lose energy density as the photons scatter over distance". It is the energy density, not the total energy, that does the damage.

In vacuum, you don't need to spin stabilize the projectiles.


Prior to the invention of the rifle, we used spherical bullets. The problem with the sphere is that the bigger you make it, the bigger hole it has to punch in the air, slowing it down at a faster rate, meaning reduced range and not greater hitting power.

A better shape is long and skinny bullet, like we use now. You can have a large mass while still creating a small hole through the air.

The problem with this shape is that, air is trying to slow the front of a bullet more than the rear. This causes the bullet, if not spun, to begin to tumble. A tumbling bullet has an even larger cross section that the sphere. Also, the tumble, not unlike a curve ball in baseball, creates irregular air pressures around it causing the trajectory to curve in unpredictable directions.

Spinning the bullet prevents the tumbling because the total angular momentum is much higher. It is "harder" for the wind to push the nose of the bullet off in any given direction. The faster the bullet is traveling, the more spin you need to get on it to prevent the tumble. Fortunately, a longer barrel creates both the higher velocity and the faster spin.



In space, there no wind resistance to create the tumble, nor is there a problem with tumble anyway since you are not worried about wind resistance slowing the bullet or causing it to curve from intended trajectory.

Explained as a translation of electromagnetic data as part of the pod interface. Which is also a good way to explain away why space is very colorful, and not to scale.

right there "based on the laws as we know them".

we are in a separate region of the universe as the milky way, flying around in wormhole-heavy space, with ships powered by engines that break physical space.

its not insane to believe all the reality/space-breaking tech in New Eden has caused an affect on the way physical space operates.

Why the planets don't move?

Why can we sit motionless above a planet and not be sucked in by gravity? Why can we bounce harmlessly off a moon/planet/sun...

Why can't I pull in an asteroid with a tractor beam?

Why is there a max speed? Why does our ship slow down when we turn off afterburner?

Why do we hear sounds of other ships?

Why are out "camera drones" not destroyed when our ship goes boom? How about we create the whole ship out of whatever that camera that is showing us the outside of our ship is made out of?

Why does autopilot warp to 5K off gate?

why, why, why....

Because it is a game!

It's a hyper liquid

Shots are inaccurate because of aiming wrong.

The longer the distance to a target, and the smaller the target, the harder it is to predict where it will be and how it will zig-zag, and land a bullet on it. Think of snipers and how they have to lead the target and predict where he/she will run. Imagine the sniper in space with no friction on the bullet; he'll still miss because it takes the bullet 5-10 seconds to get to the target, and the target can decide to stop and run back AFTER the sniper has fired his shot.

Your next question is going to be "Why do lasers miss, then?" and the answer is "Why don't YOU grab a laser pointer and try to keep it aimed on a guy running around randomly at 300 m from you?"

In any case, your questions are a little bit pointless. ANYTHING can be explained away with technobabble, and this is a sci-fi game, technobabble is a staple of the genre.

I truly get that this is a space GAME and some sort of reality need to be suspended but I think some of you are missing what I am driving at.

I think of falloff as like, if I was to throw a rock really hard for a while it would travel strait, it then starts to run out of energy and begin to fall, eventually it travels to a point of no return and gravity ends its forward momentum.
In a space game where there is supposed to be no gravity then if I was to be in my space suit with the same rock I chuck it and it would just keep on going till it hit something. I am not talking about accuracy of tracking simply that the projectile would not stop or become less accurate on its course.

Please try to be respectful in your answers, some in this thread really shouldn't be.

Whatever.

Anyway, yeah that is how the term "falloff" originated, from the trajectory of the projectile. However, it is an aiming and shooting term, and thus it can be adapted for use in a "futuristic" situation where projectiles still miss at a certain range, but not because they drift towards a gravity well.

Much like the term "ship", why do we use the term "ship" to refer to something that has nothing to do with floating on planetary oceans?

It's a videogame. Try not to think too hard about it.