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Why do stations look almost as big as the moon?
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Solomon Enderas
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#1 - 2013-08-03 15:47:56 UTC  |  Edited by: Solomon Enderas
I just started playing this game yesterday, and everything is great. The graphics are actually a lot better than I was expecting. The only thing that keeps making me go wtf is that when you zoom out all the way at a station, the size ratio of the station to the Moon seems to change a lot, to the point where the Moon looks like its only slightly bigger than the station. Is this intentional, or is it some sort of technical thing.

Edit: I just wanted to clarify that I am not having some sort of panic attack over this (lol), but it just confuses me.
Archibald Thistlewaite III
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Miners
#2 - 2013-08-03 16:02:07 UTC
That's no moon.

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Loretta Blake
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#3 - 2013-08-03 18:41:05 UTC
Go outside. Put your finger in front of your nose. Stare at the sun. OMG WHY IS YOUR FINGER BIGGER THAN THE SUN?!
Kahega Amielden
Rifterlings
#4 - 2013-08-03 22:50:07 UTC
Loretta Blake wrote:
Go outside. Put your finger in front of your nose. Stare at the sun. OMG WHY IS YOUR FINGER BIGGER THAN THE SUN?!


^

This is pretty much it. Put the moon on your overview and select it. Note how far away it is.
Hesod Adee
Perkone
Caldari State
#5 - 2013-08-03 23:50:28 UTC
When you compare the size of a moon to the size of its planet, Earth's moon is huge.
Ines Tegator
Serious Business Inc. Ltd. LLC. etc.
#6 - 2013-08-04 00:05:26 UTC
Moons are close enough that you can get to it it an hour or so if you have a fast interceptor.

Try it out, see what happens. Eve celestials are in real-life scale. Not counting stations and containers, which are bigger on the inside.

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Sol Kal'orr
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2013-08-04 03:05:32 UTC
Or just warp to them, they are celestials.

This image is p poor quality but gives and idea of the scale of moons to stations.
Drago Shouna
Doomheim
#8 - 2013-08-04 09:37:10 UTC
Or...undock and zoom out, the station will shrink but the moon won't...It gives you a better perspective that way.

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