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How big is EVE?

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Shindad Kal
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2014-05-16 01:10:14 UTC
I am trying to wrap my brain around the size and scale of the Eve universe. I have a hypothetical. Let's say tomorrow morning I log on, grab a shuttle(which I am assuming is the fastest ship i could get my hands on) started at the farthest end of the map and flew to the complete opposite end using only engines and never warping how many days or even years would it take.....has anyone ever heard of this being calculated?
Little Chubby
Atrocity.
#2 - 2014-05-16 01:11:46 UTC
It's about two thirds as big as the mouseover popup scrolling brick of death.

That you can see the edges of the game around that is just a clever perspective trick.
Doc Fury
Furious Enterprises
#3 - 2014-05-16 01:14:12 UTC  |  Edited by: Doc Fury
Shindad Ka wrote:

How big is EVE?

She was about 130lbs when I was last with her about 10 years ago.

No telling what she's become since then.

http://oldforums.eveonline.com/?a=topic&threadID=600649

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Candi LeMew
Division 13
#4 - 2014-05-16 01:21:11 UTC
We talking length or girth of EVE?

And does size even really matter at the end of the day? What?

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Ravasta Helugo
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2014-05-16 01:37:16 UTC
Candi LeMew wrote:
We talking length or girth of EVE?

And does size even really matter at the end of the day? What?

It only matters for the first four AU. After that you can't really perceive anything.
Tajic Kaundur
Collapsed Out
Pandemic Legion
#6 - 2014-05-16 01:43:24 UTC
Are we including JSpace?
Aziesta
Binal Extensions
Xagenic Freymvork
#7 - 2014-05-16 01:46:17 UTC
The thread Doc linked estimated 130 ly.

Assuming you didn't warp, as you said, and your shuttle goes around 600m/s (no, it's not the fastest ship you can fly), it would take roughly 65 million years* to go from one end to the other.

*I reserve the right to have failed misserably at math.
Shindad Kal
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#8 - 2014-05-16 01:53:38 UTC
Aziesta wrote:
The thread Doc linked estimated 130 ly.

Assuming you didn't warp, as you said, and your shuttle goes around 600m/s (no, it's not the fastest ship you can fly), it would take roughly 65 million years* to go from one end to the other.

*I reserve the right to have failed misserably at math.

Holy Hell! 65 million years? I definitely did not not expect that big a number...and I am definitely not going to attempt this stunt!
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
#9 - 2014-05-16 01:54:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Tippia
Let's see…

K-space width: 845,268,785,854,449,280 metres (~89.3 ly)
K-space depth: 215,604,069,482,645,952 metres (~22.8 ly)
K-space height: 957,320,693,030,119,680 metres (~101 ly)

Let's pick something reasonably fast that can stay that way for a loooong time. So, say, a 6km/s interceptor.

Just going from top to bottom — the shortest traverse possible — would take 1,138,680 years.
From north to south — the longest (single-axis) traverse possible — would take 5,055,943 years.

Hope you packed some lunch. P


Oh, and warping across at 24 AU/s (which should be compared to slow-poke photons, which only travel at 0.002 AU/s) still takes 3 days. There's a reason why we have star gates.
Ralph King-Griffin
New Eden Tech Support
#10 - 2014-05-16 02:16:53 UTC
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Sabriz Adoudel
Move along there is nothing here
#11 - 2014-05-16 03:02:58 UTC
Even travelling from one celestial to another within a system without warping is totally impractical except for planet to moon trips.

0.3 AU is 45 million kilometers (and a common distance from the sun to planet 1). An interceptor (6km/s) will take 7.5 million seconds to cover that, which is about three months.

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The Troll Bridge
#12 - 2014-05-16 04:29:33 UTC
Its not the size of the universe that matters, but how you use it.




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Last Wolf
Umbra Wing
#13 - 2014-05-16 04:30:20 UTC
Sabriz Adoudel wrote:
Even travelling from one celestial to another within a system without warping is totally impractical except for planet to moon trips.

0.3 AU is 45 million kilometers (and a common distance from the sun to planet 1). An interceptor (6km/s) will take 7.5 million seconds to cover that, which is about three months.


Did you factor in that EVE days are only 23 hours 30 minutes long? Lol

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Webvan
All Kill No Skill
#14 - 2014-05-16 04:41:58 UTC
It's um... about 20 inches according to my monitor..
from corner to corner
Yeah, millions of years sounds about right, the graphics card is starting to get a little dated.

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Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#15 - 2014-05-16 06:46:02 UTC
People used to build deadspace/officer fitted frigates that did 40km/s or better sub warp.


Not sure if that is still possible.
Shindad Kal
Brutor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#16 - 2014-05-16 06:56:27 UTC
Ralph King-Griffin wrote:
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well it was inevitable that someone would post this...:)
DrSmegma
Smegma United
#17 - 2014-05-16 08:21:20 UTC
Haha what a story Mark.

Eve too complicated? Try Astrum Regatta.
D20 Rollings
Doomheim
#18 - 2014-05-16 08:28:57 UTC
Dunno the numbers Sad

This game gives a real sense of leaving reality, and embarking on an epic journey. I spent hours yesterday jumping from wormhole to wormhole before finally deciding to just gate jump back to hisec.

Bring on the other "space games", eve will still reign supreme.

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DrSmegma
Smegma United
#19 - 2014-05-16 09:10:52 UTC
I always had the impression that Eve is really tiny, but nobody is there. Probably because I can talk to everyone but not see anyone. Ever. And it takes ages to travel only to find myself in the same place again.

Eve too complicated? Try Astrum Regatta.
Ka'Narlist
Dreddit
Test Alliance Please Ignore
#20 - 2014-05-16 09:11:50 UTC
Aziesta wrote:
The thread Doc linked estimated 130 ly.

Wow thats really really small.

The milky way galaxy has a diameter of something above 100k light years with the nearest star to our sun being something about 4 light years away if I remember correctly. So if everything in eve fits into a 130 light year diameter that would fit into a tiny fraction of our galaxy.
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