EVE Fiction

Most balance and graphical changes, I think, are explained by waving DEV hand and saying: "It has always been this way".

Different things get different answers, depending on the scale and nature of the change. I'll try and address your examples one-by-one. I'll note that most of my answers describe generally-accepted "fanon" answers; in places I'll note where CCP has actually given an explanation on these topics.

Warp speed changes

Minor 'stat tweak' changes like this are generally explained as CONCORD and/or the ship design producers issuing new directives regarding operation of equipment in question - for example, 'advances in warp core stabilization technology have allowed some ships to be fitted with warp cores that come in and out of warp at a much greater rate; however, the research also determined that larger-massing hulls were risking catastrophic warp-core failure by accelerating/decelerating in and out of warp at the rates they were; in response, CONCORD has mandated that all such vessels reduce their rates to within safe margins'.

I'll also add here something about ship fitting changes: In a situation where a ship has had a major shift of its intended purpose, such as the Armageddon turning form a damage-heavy turretboat to a utility-focused droneboat or all the mining frigates turning into remote repair frigates, this is generally explained as the hulls undergoing an overhaul in lore as well as in mechanics. Sometimes this has been acknowledged in ship descriptions (Hurricane Navy Issue, new RR frigates) while in others it has gone relatively un-noticed.

In general, that these changes happen overnight is generally dealt with via handwavium.

V3 textures and hull changes

Minor tweaks (texture updates that may move minor details, etc) are generally hit with the 'it was always that way' line. Similar to the above, major ship model changes (new/old Scorpion, upcomming new Crucifier, Command Ships switching which battlecruiser hulls they use) are generally explained as being overhauls instituted by CONCORD / the ship producers - also again, that it happens overnight is usually :handwavium:.

Asteroid belts after downtime

No idea if this has ever been really addressed; my personal bet is something along the lines of "during these downtimes, CONCORD updates out navigational beacons to reflect unharvested asteroid fields."

Ship texture collisions

This is a game derp, pure and simple. It is necessary in order to prevent ships from being hurled away at extreme speeds as their models collide, but there really isn't a physical way for two ships to occupy the same physical space.

There is a Minmatar dude in middle of Amarr space in Minmatar station, giving me anti-Amarr missions.

Missions in specific but PvE in general tend to be heavily lore- and immersion-breaking; it's best not to try and fit it in to specifically. This kind of thing can be filed under the same category as rescuing the damsel 5 times a day, finding huge battlefleets dozens of jumps from any border that the NPC navies have inexplicably missed, or the large numbers of missions that reflect outdated lore (for instance, agents wringing their hands about 'the looming threat of war' when Factional Warfare along with battles between NPC navies has been a thing for years now).

My ship won't break and my fuel / oxygen / food supplies are infinite!

I personally take the view that there are invisible drones (similar to our camera drones) that resupply our ships at most opportunities - for instance, when inside of a POS bubble or lingering nearby a station for longer than a moment. One might also argue the point that if you stay in space that long, you will inevitably HAVE to receive resupply of some kind, whether from anchored can, POS, or friendly players' ship. Fresh crew, replacement small equipment, fuel, food, etc would be transferred aboard at the same time.

Magic docking and undocking and small stations all around

Stations do badly need a resize to fit lore, yes. Like PvE, it's best to just not look at this to closely - it can be put in the same category as filling a freighter with ships that are larger dimensionally than the freighter is, and other such size-related issues.

Something like this.

Also like i see some pople that like want to put every litle thing that CCP changes in the game to lore for some reson.

Uh huh, because it's immersion breaking, perhaps? Little things and details in lore are exactly what in any game makes me to stop and appreciate the depth and riches of the game's universe. Nothing else. Big Titans and big battles are fine, of course, but you get the level of connectivity between you and the game only through little, rather unimportant things. Just like in real life.

And if you consider that every patch changes little of this and little of that, at some point you want some answers


That's a shame, really. Ever since Incarna fiasco, the focus on lore is minimal with each new expansion. Though we had that big Titan thing and also record number in released lore world news last year. Yet I'm still missing something. Maybe the lack of live events, maybe the lack of little things I can find. I have no idea.

While personally, I've always had a bit of OCD in terms of backstory and everything being explained perfectly, there are some things that we just can't explain away with fiction and lore.

Sadly that's just the way it is, and sometimes changes have to be made that can't be reflected fully in backstory, although we try to do our best in accommodating it

Like the redesigned Hulk: Designed for maximum mining efficiency/yield, has the least efficient, lowest yield mining turrets of all exhumers.

Falcon, quick question-- is the ISD Mercury team still active?

I have no idea if there is an official lore explanation for this (Falcon perhaps knows), but I personally always envisioned it like this:

The camera drones that are our eyes outside the ship we fly in have to be retracted before we can dock, effectively leaving us blind during the actual docking procedure. When docked we link into in-station camera's and can see our ship again.
Again, that's how I personally envision it.

I envision ships being microjumpdrived on the positions. Traffic in the background is people doing rounds in the training program for license to fly a spaceship. They are not allowed to leave station.