EVE General Discussion

The stars look great until you click on the descriptions.

My alt is in bournes right now and this is what she pulls up when looking at the local star:

Description: Sun K5 (red Giant)

Attributes:

Luminosity: 0.01 (1% of our sun - fair enough)
Age 10,324,000,000 (10.4 billion so that's old also fair enough)

Radius (143,500km) That's a ******* Gas Giant at best a brown dwarf not a Red Giant!

Spectral Class K6V This is totally different to the Description Tag!
Temperature 3910k (believable)

So anyhow. It seems such a shame that the stars had a recent overhaul for visuals when stuff like this is totally wrong and contrafictory so I'm asking CCP when wil this be fixed. You could have volunteers do it if need be...


Radius of our Sun ( a yellow main sequence and not a red giant)

695,800 km (1 R☉)

Fixing flavour text for game mechanics unrelated stuff is very low priority.

Maybe one of the CSM stumbled over the post-it note on the floor while wandering through some desolate part of the HQ while on the grand quest for the nearest restroom.

This bug is ruining my EVE experience. Soon I will unsub and uninstall. I will go be good at Excel 2010 instead. Less flavor errors there. Fix it CCP.

Email ur reply asap CCP.

Well I think that changing text in a database and pushing it out to each client in the next update has got to be easier and less time consuming that actually changing the visual effects of the stars themselves which happened recently.

As much as I hate to knock off the efforts of the poor soul who re-worked the star appearances recently, this is something that I would liked to have seen with that make-over. The fact that there's no discernible difference between 1 AU and 100 is a bit of a shame... not game-breaking, but it's those little things that count.

It's a game ffs!!!!

On that note, it would be nice if the devs provided us with a value for the viscosity of free space in SI units (so Pa*s or kg/[s*m]).

Sails don't work in underwater space. Well except for solar sails. But the stars are too small to provide enough solar wind? And even if the stars were big enough, the solar wind would also be slowed down by EVE's submarine ether-esque medium thus making solar sails impractical.

Which begs the question, how many atmospheres of pressure are EVE hulls rated for?

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It would be something if red giants actually were depicted in the appropriate scaling. An entire system swallowed by one would be neat.