EVE General Discussion

"Why does _______ happen in EVE? It's so unrealistic"

I happened upon a thread with a number of questions about the eve universe put forward as though they had no answer. The answers to me seemed fairly obvious within the constraints of the science of New edenites. I'm not overly familiar with lore yet, so feel free to point out where EVE canon goes against one of my theories.

So enjoy this unsolicited and hopefully not too unwarranted wall of sci-fi engineer speak.




The same warp core voodoo that gives us drag against space-time (hence, top speeds) would also anchor you with no relative velocity to the gravity well you are in.



It can, but you face the law of diminishing returns as size increases and you need ever more computing power to manage capital systems, and then computing power to manage said computing power.



Space is not empty, lasers ionize the hydrogen and heliospheric dust as they pass by. Nor can they remain perfectly coherent and will spread out over 100km or so.

Hybrid/projectile rounds lose magnetic containment and are damaged by the same matter that diffuses laser energy. From a physics standpoint when you pump that much energy into a solid object it can be considered a loosely held together ball of atoms, and given time/distance they will spread out.

The warp bubble is created using matter that has negative mass and consequently interacts with positive mass as can be expected. It's likely impossible for our ships to get too close to a planet while the core is active, which as you know, cannot be safely shutdown.

EDIT: And a question for you: Why can't POSes be configured to swap T3 subs?

Why does pepsi > coke? Checkmate atheists.

Because CCP doesn't want to be excommunicated.



Because no one who works at coca cola cares about the drink itself. The company was grandfathered in by the DEA and is still permitted to import coca plant products, its true source of income.

Almost immediately after Reagan endorsed massive federal penalties and jailtime for drug offenses, the company began using the slogan "Coke is it!"

Also, pepsi is the nectar of the gods.

HAAAA - Almost spit out my water.

Why are there no overtly complex and convoluted formulas relating to physics, engineering, chemistry, and throw in some anti matter formulas for good measure?

Also why can we harness antimatter but we can't fire a doomsday more than once every ten minutes.

Because it's a game not a simulation.

Because a non-student mathematica subscription is vastly more expensive than an EVE subscription.




This is a tricky one, I used some very rough math to get the mass of one unit of armor HP and work backwards from the damage of an aurora ominae by figuring the energy required to vaporize one kilogram of steel.

The power of an aurora ominae comes in around 2.8 to 5PJ (petajoules). If you're not familiar with a petajoule, you might be familiar with the tsar bomba, which just so happens to be a petajoule worth of boom.

That ~5PJ of energy would require about 25 grams of antimatter, that at our current capacity would take 200 billion years or so to produce.

I would say the ten minutes is preferable.