EVE General Discussion

Planets don't orbit in fluidic space, and would defy the laws of physics... To find such a place you would need to locate an interdimensional rift and voyage through the center of this rift in fluidic space to the other side. Yes, planets and stars usually don't exist in fluidic space either, but this transition only happened recently, all the tears accumulating over time filling space itself.

They don't orbit, but they do rotate on their axis. Go up to one and watch. I was like whoa when I first noticed it. I think orbiting planets would be cool as hell, but probably would be way too difficult to code it. Plus it would mess with your bookmarks to your POS and so on.

Why when I space I still fly flat?

They dont, which sucks because it really takes away from the illusion of space. If you want orbiting planets, you'll to play a space simulator like Kerbal Space Program, Space Engine or programs like that.

They don't orbit, but they should.

Bookmarks could be made relative to a reference point. If your POS orbits a moon orbiting a planet orbiting a star, and you make a bookmark in the tactical overlay plane, 100km away from the POS sunward, the bookmark's reference becomes the closet item from a list of items (such as stars, planets, moons, POSes, stations, etc.) and as the POS orbits your bookmark orbits to stay in the same place, relative to its reference point, the POS.

Actually, I completely agree with this.

When I first started playing EVE, I went in with a real sense of scope and grandeur that was quickly replaced with a colder, gate-to-gate reality. I was hoping that atmospheric flight would fix this for me, but that never happened. Still, there is something to be said for introducing genuine, astrophysical properties that would make this game more "spacey".

As for POS, you could always make it possible to bookmark the actual structure, thereby making it possible to warp directly to it, thereby opening the game up to having multiple POS around a single body in the distant future. This would give planets a real three dimensional feeling, and it would create resource conflicts to boot.

On top of that, it would have a major impact on bubble positioning and planet bouncing, and an old planetary bookmark could easily be a safe spot within a few hours. Obviously there are all kinds of impracticalities here, but I've always thought the game could benefit cosmetically and mechanically from less backdrop-like solar systems.

You can to collide with them, outside warp you can fly tot he center in an interceptor and the core of a star has a collidable object that has a rough radius of ~1,000km and it will bump you off into space at millions of m/s. I have a bm for dodixie that can be landed on from one direction but from others you get bumped off, depending on size of ship and drift towards the star after exiting warp.

great, ccp can surely put this zero cost feature in

off to F&I

How do you all figure it has no gameplay value?

It would be cool if you could hide your armada behind a planet and avoid D-Scan as an example. Don't people watch Star Trek? :P

You also don't need perfect physics. Having something move 1 degree on its predetermined 360 degree orbit during downtime would be childs play for the servers.

that game that makes the Russian half of the space race look safe by comparison?