Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Sadly the recent changes to ship warp speeds have made anything bigger than a cruiser a nightmare to fly. I wonder, did the person implementing these changes do it through a lens of assuming most battleships and larger would just move through cynos and bridges?

Consider:

- Cruisers: buff warp speed, to 3.3 AU, faction/pirate variants to 3.5 AU
- Battlecruisers: buff warp speed to 3.0 AU, faction/pirate variants to 3.3 AU
- Battleships: buff warp speed to to 2.7 AU, faction/pirate variants to 3.0 AU
- ....etc

Interceptors, frigates and AF's would still retain a huge mobility advantage, but at least now the bigger ships would be playable and fun to fly again.

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the current speeds are fine as they are and this is coming from some one who constantly flies freighters hub to hub

If it were up to me, I would have set battlecruisers as the fulcrum upon which the warp speed changes were balanced. A cap would be appropriate for T2 frigates in such a situation (interceptors especially) but it would see battleships being slowed a bit less. It was, however, not up to me and so now you all have to live with 2 AU/sec in your TFIs and Nightmares.

On the other hand, I do wonder what that would have done to freighters.

I hear only whine ...

I am traveling in general with Battleships and Orcas ... no idea what kind of problems you have .. and my route is usually 25+ jumps. But I tend to plan ahead and move stuff only when needed, set up bases and fit for travel ... but I might be alone considering things before whining ... well, as I see maybe not. Some still put in the work, not to have to suffer too much from the status quo of the game.

So 'no' to warp speed changes, they seem fine to me. And usually its the acceleration / deceleration that feels most annoying, not warp speed or align time, but that's beside the topic.

There are some issues to be fixed.

For example, (I think these are the right ships) my Algos dessie has a 2.5 warp while my big a** tayra indy has warp of 3? There's something wrong with that.

Ability to skip systems every now and than would speed them up by some

Lets call it slipstream driv3 or something have adequate cool down so it isnt possible to own space travel and you cant use it on sec status gates ie you cant skip o.4 to 0.5 gate etc.

For such massive ships it is kinda meh to abide by basic game mechanic ie for such size one would expect it can travel further faster, than ships that can barely fit pilot and some canned food.

+1

Battleships really took it in the pants on the warp speed changes, which is sad because many of them are iconic ships of EVE.

tbh, i have no idea why smaller ships fly faster in eve. Sure smaller ships are more manoeuvrable, naturally, but faster.. i have my reservation.

The bigger the ship, the more muscle it should technically have (within a gravity well).

compare any animal you like.

Big cats are faster than smaller cats.
Big dogs are faster than small dogs.
Bigger birds are faster than smaller birds.
Large flightless birds are faster than smaller flightless birds.

If you wanted to be pedantic mass is meaningless in space anyway - something the size of the moon, something the size of an ant.. is all relational. If anything you'll expect the engines on a providence to unleash more torque than that of a frigate - and if mass is meaningless, more torque on the engines, more thrust means higher top speed.

But this is EvE, where a spud gun does the same damage as a 3000 kt nuke.

I put it down to a 'wizard did it'

My guess is that you are a miner.

Because only a miner would say "more tedium please!"

oo right.. then put a rabbit running against an hippo and see witch one wins... And no mass is NEVER irrelevant. Go to physics 101. F=M.a that uncorrelated to gravity. Mass is absolute until you get at subatomic level of at relativistic speed levels.