EVE General Discussion

Lol and this is your answer you are asking for nerd answers.
And what is the point. You got Science fiction fantasy and you want to change it to a diffrend Science fiction fantasy its still the same fantasy Science fiction" There are both wrong.

short answer: yes
long answer: yeeeeeessssss

This game would be very difficult to play drunk

Area Effect weapons would be the weapon of choice so you know you won't miss.

First:

Warp Field Mechanics 101 - Nasa Technical Report.
http://ntrs.nasa.gov/archive/nasa/casi.ntrs.nasa.gov/20110015936_2011016932.pdf

Since you're not actually moving within a warp bubble (and lets assume you're creating a bubble all the time for the sake of argument) then acceleration and inertia wouldn't matter so much.

Second: It's a game and would be really unbalanced and screwed since EVE wasn't designed for it at the start. Also, it would require more server resources on Tranquility to calculate all of this stuff and send it to our clients. For CCP, ten and a half years into it, it ain't worth it.


Lets consider this one under point one also, for the sake of argument.

I think you answered the rest at the end of your post. Spaceflight using proper physics can be exciting yes, in a different way, but in EVE it just wouldn't work. For games to be enjoyable, you have to suspend your disbelief every now and then.

I'm assuming you don't play Mass Effect and say, "WELL, I'M A PHYSICIST AND NATURALLY THIS IS ALL SCREWED UP BECAUSE THERE IS NO EMPIRICAL EVIDENCE OF EXTRATERRESTRIAL BIOLOGICAL ENTITIES!" Just enjoy it as it as :)

Stopped there since I ran out of breath from the laughter.

Space fights would be a mess because of recoil, to high velocities and so on...
As I tried to state in my first post, the only thing, that I would like to see changed is the behaviour of ships in space. I wouldn't touch pew pew for the same reasons already stated: It would be a major overhaul of the whole game. The same would apply to the ramming thing. Why change, what happens if ships collide? They just bump as they do today. Maybe tune the bumping mechanism, so the effect of the bump depends rather on acceleration than on velocity. (I know very well, that it would violate the conservation of momentum, but I don't care because it's a game...)

Fights at high velocities are not different to the fights we know, as long as all vessels are moving in the same direction with nearly the same velocity. So the only scenario is, what happens, if a ship is flying with a high velocity, and another ship warps to it. Either the moving ship shoots away from it, the very moment the intercepting ship drops out of warp, or the intercepting ship has to drop out of warp with the same velocity as the moving ship.

Einsteins relativistic physics invalidate newton physics
That's the worst crap, I have read in this thread. Special Relativity contains newton physics as limit case for low velocities. Einstein hasn't falsified newton dynamics, but has expanded it.

MWD, Webifiers and so on
I would change all the modules, that have an effect on max velocity to apply the same effect onto acceleration. This way, MWDs would continue boosting and webbers would decrease the velocity, at which a ship can orbit an other at a given radius, making it thus easier to hit.

You really need to go look up Newton's laws and go back to middle school... This is very basic physics you're missing. Newton's third law is the one you're looking for.

Modern rockets also don't need air to function to burn their fuel either, fyi.

Thank you for providing me with both a good laugh aswell as good proof as to why the school system is failing quite badly.

1. Stop posting.
2. Read this site. http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/index.php
3. ???
4. Profit!

Wait, are you the guy that said that gyro's wouldn't work in space because there is no air a couple of months ago?