EVE General Discussion

Didn't it used to say "Warp bubble collapse in" followed by the distance during warp?

Doesn't that imply it's more of you altering the space around your ship rather than exceeding the speed of light.

So what? I fell for a cheap cloning scam in '06 and now I'm stuck with this.

Still at least it doesn't look like I have an incurable condition.

Because lets face it there is no cure for being a c*nt.

of all the things to complain about... this is not really that big an issue. First of all, your example of the FLT is ugly. no one wants that. it's a nit that doesn't get picked because we all know it's just for gaming fun. If we changed everything to fit our narrowly calculated vision of the hypothetical universe the game would become pretty boring.

Just stepping in to say whast likely already been said.

You dont go lightspeed in EVE because that would be impossible with ay kind of solid mass.

You can be perceived as going FTL though, kind of like the distance between galaxies expands at a faster rate than lightspeed for some galaxies. But neither is actually going faster.

In EVE you move space around you to get from A to B, thats why its a "Warp Bubble" and why it can be disrupted. It is also the justification for the submarine physics in space.

While that image is close, it does leave a few things out. From what I can tell, they're just looking at the visual spectrum.

First of all, there is redshifting and blueshifting - Light in front of you becomes a higher frequency, it blueshifts. Light behind you becomes lower frequency, it redshifts. This effect is visible in Eve already when you warp, although only minimally. We mostly wouldn't see this with our eyes - we can't see infrared or ultraviolet or further.

Second, whatever you are approaching appears to move away from you. This is an optical illusion caused by an increase in your field of view - and your field of view increases because you are now moving so fast you are seeing light from behind yourself. The faster you travel, the larger your field of view becomes.

Edit - Clarification: The light from behind you is still traveling faster than you are, but you're traveling fast enough that you intercept it as it crosses your path, because it is traveling at an angle to you.

Third, the photons directly in front of you begin to pile up, creating something like a light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel effect.

Were you to go at exactly lightspeed, you would see the entire universe compressed into a dot of light directly in front of you. At lower speeds, you see something that looks kind of tunnel-ish.

For your viewing pleasure, here is an animated view of near-lightspeed travel:
http://jila.colorado.edu/~ajsh/insidebh/photonsphereplain_640x480.gif

The observer is orbiting near lightspeed around a black hole. You can see the black hole along the bottom half of the .gif, and the universe at large along the top half.

There we go, I was looking for that. Thank you.

Lol you really want to go there?

its the fluid that fills the void that is refered to as "space" in eve, it transmits light at superluminal speeds. It is this amazing feature that unfortunately causes a spaceship to slow down when the engines throttle back too. We cant have everything our way!

ITS A GAME HAVE FUN or GTFO

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