EVE General Discussion

Particle theory and Space Cats in the SAME thread?

That's gotta be over 9000!

(PS: Kzinti scatter packs 4tw... Klingon's are wannabe drone users)

Ugh, Lyran! The counter to my drone waves. One ESG equipped ship, okay... I can handle. More than that? pssshhhh... HET 180, extend 50 hexes, disengage. FU Lyrans.

Frankly, I don't much like being talked about like this.

Helium breast implants. It's the latest thing.

Virtually all games, including all combat flight sims, and all civilian flight sims except X-Plane work this way. They have a preset flight model that varies the vehicles performance based on control inputs but no actual "physics" calculations are going on.

X-Plane is the one exception that I know of. In X-Plane you can design something load it into the sim and see if it will really fly in real life or will crash and burn.

Such a fundamental change to the physics model would require a complete rewrite of pretty much the entire game and re-balancing of all content around the new model. I think they have better uses for their time personally.

Besides, truly Newtonian and frictionless environments are kind of boring, and the maneuvers you end up doing come down to spiraling and jousting.

And if you want to simulate realistic orbital mechanics and physics (n body or patched conic model doesn't matter) you'd better read up on your orbital mechanics before you complain about the various counter-intuitive effects that has.

Bye bye pretty much anything you thought you knew about space flight, as anyone who has ever played Orbiter or more recently Kerbal Space Program can tell you.

Actually it's pretty damn hard to hit the sun. You have to kill enough orbital velocity that you hit the surface, and that's a lot of velocity.

Remember there are planets that orbit their stars (which are many times the mass of the sun) in 4 day orbits at insane speeds because of how close they are.

Eve could have fixed this issue by using a different propulsion system. Perhaps a displacement engine that propelled the ship by moving space around the ship as in the popular show Star Trek. They were able to keep to the physics of empty space while enabling the engines to move and stop the ship in all directions. They used an impulse drive, not Thrusters. They only used Thrusters for minute movements.

I merely PRETEND that my ships have an impulse drive. There's no reason for space to be fluidic. Wormholes take you to far away systems and they can't all be fluidic when Earth's region isn't.

You all can play however you wish and please do. This is simply how I view the game.

I mean think about it- My ships can move so fast that if space WAS fluidic, my ship would be torn apart! It literally moves 9,000 times faster than light at high warp! I have another ship that moves over 10,000 times the speed of light! Not even Star Trek ships could go that fast without the help of a supremely powerful being!

There's no way in hell that my ships are strong enough to withstand that kind of pressure but then blow up when ganked by projectile turrets.

So, yeah... my ships operate on non-standard propulsion and exist in empty space.

A better question would be why bother.

There's a metric ton of other things that need fixing/balancing/nerfing without ripping the heart out of eve and reprogramming it