EVE General Discussion

You had such a beautiful war machine.

It could be worse. Canada is the second largest country in the world and we have about 90 F/A 18's to defend our boarder. Navy is in similar shape. I am pretty sure the yanks haven't conquered us yet because think they already did at some point and forget we're still a nation.

Can you loan us a couple of Eurofighters or somethin.

CBC said that they were just testing the toaster oven on high.

I hope we get those F-35's before our Hornets become the new Seakings. You know what, I hope we give up, just spend our military cash on more healthcare or something.

We'll just be America's medic when war breaks out.

US Soldier: Ah I'm hit!
Canadian Medic: Where does it hurt?
US Soldier: .....Nothing big. I'll duct tape it later, no need to charge me any...
Canadian Medic: I'm Canai..
US Soldier: Left Arm, it's in my Left Arm and it's burning!

Why do these discussion always turn into America vs the world *sigh*

The op was just illustrating that RL BS are bristling with guns and it would be cool to have the same kind of COMPRABLE fire power.

I guess you miss read the bit that said "If you are an American".

True all things spent on by governments are from tax's if they haven't borrowed the money from the banks.

Canada is just as profligate with its defense funding, thou not in the same league as America.

Canada has great ground forces and that all you need really. America would protect Canada all day and night from an invasion, and we have all the big tools. Canadian troops are quite seasoned after ten+ years of fighting terrorists. As an American from the midwest I can tell you that we love Canada for all the support. It is one of the few countries in the world I would pay to go to lol .

Back to the original subject kind of...Game balance will never allow for true ships to be made. The most "realistic" version of void warfare I can think of would come from the Warhammer Universe. Gigantic slabs of metal housing tens even hundreds of thousands of humans doing battle from hundreds of thousands of km away all the way to point blank fighting. Those ships are basically nothing but guns on top of guns, with 300m long torpedoes and thousands of fighter escorts. Just more the grittiness of of for me I guess.

Cool Vids DoW2 ending
And the best one imo :)

the 406mm guns had a refire rate of like 30secs. I'd happily keep my 5sec 425mm over that one.

Guys, get your Facts right:

The Bismarck was NOT sunk by external Factors. They managed to destroy everything on the hull, but the hull itself was sunk by the crew on board.

Quote form the Englisch Wikipedia Article:

First Officer Hans Oels ordered the men below decks to abandon ship; he instructed the engine room crews to open the ship's watertight doors and prepare scuttling charges.[118] Gerhard Junack, the chief engineering officer, ordered his men to set the demolition charges with a 9-minute fuse, but the intercom system broke down, and so he sent a messenger to confirm the order to scuttle the ship. The messenger never returned, and so Junack primed the charges and ordered the crew to abandon the ship.[119] Junack and his comrades heard the demolition charges detonate as they made their way up through the various levels.[120] In the meantime, Oels rushed throughout the ship, ordering men to abandon their posts. After he reached the deck a huge explosion killed him and about a hundred others.[121]

The four British ships fired more than 2,800 shells at Bismarck, and scored more than 400 hits, but were unable to sink Bismarck by gunfire. At around 10:20, running low on fuel, Tovey ordered the cruiser Dorsetshire to sink Bismarck with torpedoes, and sent his battleships back to port.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_battleship_Bismarck


While i understand the reasons for Eve Battleships to not have Point Defense, how was that about Titans?

If i would build a 14km ship it would have about 1000 guns. And 2/3 of them would be point defense.

EDIT: Just btw.:
Another intersting warship class and currently the largest not being a carrier of some sorts:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kirov-class_battlecruiser

My only problem with battleship weapons in EVE is that they are so tiny compared to the rest of the ship, they look like pea shooters.

Even when they are on Attack BCs they still look tiny.

Orly? How come all of those are on the bottom of the ocean then?

One of them also decided to fly.