EVE General Discussion

I'm aware this does not answer OP's question completely, but to quote a relevant EVELopedia article:

'So what is the elusive answer to FTL travel? It was found through advanced research in the field of quantum electrodynamics. By creating depleted vacuum, that is, vacuum as found in space but completely stripped of all energy, and then expanding this depleted vacuum to envelop a ship, the ship is capable of moving faster than light. A depleted vacuum bubble is more than frictionless; it is so anti-friction that things (including light) actually move faster in it than they would in complete vacuum.'

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You are correct on that what capsuleers see is a computer generate image, send to their ship by the Camera drones . You are however incorrect in your assumption that said image is projected on a physical screen in front of your eyes. The visual input is directly fed to the visual cortex, the part of the brain that actually makes you 'see' things.
That direct input can be in such a way as that it appears to be shown on a display in front of your eyes, but that is not actually the case.

Not true, this is the best submarine sim out there.

i would like to see one thing in Eve Online which actually makes sense from non-gamer POV

Be careful, you may get lots of big bearded blokes from Brighton...

It all actually makes sense, in a way...
Many things in EVE are based on scientific theories.

FTL imagery - actually it would be nothing like that picture as the visual stimuli would change so fast that all that your retina would be able to pick would be a mishmash of COLORS! That Star-Trek zooooom thing is fake as fake can get. Considering that Warp Drives in EVE function on the Alcubierre principle (bending the space-time continuum rather than propelling you at speeds that would liquify your organs, if an image could be generated from outside the Warp bubble it would be exactly as you see in EVE- tho a lil bit faster - as basically it's space around you that moves and not you). (Check out the new trailer for Nolan's Interstellar and you'll get a glimpse of what a warp bubble looks like, or possibly a WH entrance ).
ATM the Alcubierre drive is considered by most scientist to be theoretically achievable, the only thing stopping them is finding a big enough power source that could generate the warp field (the most powerful we got - nuclear - is actually not even remotely close to the power required, anti-matter is proposed but since we can make like a tablespoon per millennium, well you get it...).

Interstellar Communication - in EVE,instant communication between star-systems is done via the so called fluid-router which is nothing more than a collection of quantum entangled particles. Einstein called this "spooky action at a distance" - basically a pair of particles that are quantum entangled will retain their entanglement even after separation (i.e. they will move as if they were one even if separated by vast distances). Simply put, bump upwards particle A in solar system X and the particle B in solar system Y will suffer the effect "in mirror". Simple communication can be achieved via this.
ATM this is also theoretically possible - the only thing we have to figure out is a) how to brake the entanglement b) how to efficiently send the signal (as we are talking quantum here, even the action of viewing the particle may register as a motion on the other particle as viewing simply means spraying it with photons, thus already applying a stimulus to it)

Cloning - achieved.
The only thing which is dodgy in EVE about cloning is the act of conscience transfer - this is something for the more philosophical minds to debate - are you really you or are you just an evolving copy of something that was once you?

I personally enjoy the warp tunnel effect but think it is too 'light' and am also bothered by the fact that warp speed does not seem to affect the effect. I wouldn't mind if for instance, capitals and battleships were to warp with the current animation, but interceptors and especially leopards would look closer to the image linked in first. Basically, the faster you warp, the more blurred and distorted your tunnel should be.

I think we're missing the most important aspect of this whole thing... just look around and make sure that no sunlight is touching your skin.

:o Submarines in space after all!

We are all brains in jars and this thing you call eve is just a program to have us control real spaceships under the pretense that we are playing a game but we are shooting real other ships. Everything you see and feel has been preprogrammed by the invisible masters. When one of your corp mates quits and never comes back? They were defective and thus replaced with a new brain in a jar.

Female.

Mr. Fahrenheit.