EVE General Discussion

I've always wondered why they decided to make most ships fly more like trucks than ships and that space in the Eve universe is apparently has some gravity.

If I remember correctly, there was an explanation for the ships never colliding. The ship's navigational system instantly reacts to a collision attempt and overrides our own commands to get the ship out of the way.

Of course, this doesn't explain why a damn freighter moves like a slug but can be bumped around at 200 m/s+.

-Ships flying around at warpspeed without using any kind of fuel. = nuclear reactors and fusion doesn't require that much, out rovor on mars is running off of Plutonium 238, and operates on the basis of the radiation providing heat which provides power.

- Caroline's star seen exploding at the same time lightyears apart.= yeah not so much on this one, everywhere should be seeing it at different times, but that would also take hundreds of years, I don't think eve will be around that long

- Endless resources (Asteroid belts spawning at the very same place every day at noon).- this is a game world and you need resources. Would you prefer all of empire run out and the superblocks control the last of the asteroids thus controlling the minerals. The ore must flow, ships and ammo must be built. Ever seen the Fallout series intro describing war?

- Asteroid belts' ores depending on the sec status of the system they spawn in.= would be right to find rare minerals to mine in a downtown area now would it? or somewhere like your backyard of a place you rent which is a sub division is a town, who does the ore belong to?

- Ships colliding at high speeds without getting damaged.= this because it would be abused by using numbers of cheap small ships to take out much larger ships...rookie ships with 1mn ab or mwd could be used for this, they have ganked freighters with rookie ships.

- Packaging and unpackaging spaceships in seconds thereby reducing the volume incredibly.= repacking ships does make them smaller because you remove all of the empty space the ship contains. ever buy an entertainment system that comes in a box and you set it up and its much bigger than the box it came in? yeah repacking and unpacking works like that. the time though...would you like to spend a few days waiting for the battleship you bought to unpack so you can do missions?

- Storing thousands of ships in stations big enough to house a few dozen.= Maybe not thousands but the stations are very large and contain multiple areas for docking, not just 1 large room. Ill take a look at station dimensions sometime but im pretty sure they are bigger then the overall area of out military bases.



Just because something may or may not make sense to a RL situation in a game, there may still be a reason for it.

For zero, the rail guns using less energy t doesn't make sense but the ammo weight and size would affect range...just not so drastically. Even in space there is particles that will collide into a moving object making it slow down over time, but would take a very very long time. Also rail gun ammo, only the core of atoms in the material, the whole shell is something else.

Is that what happens? I always thought the ships were just bumping shields. Giggity.

No, CCP made an effort to have EVE be somewhat scientifically accurate 12 years ago when the game was launched. Since then, there has been almost no progress and they haven't put in much effort to upgrade scientific background of the game:

- We live in a 5000+ star "galaxy" with a void around it, nothing there.

- All the dots in the sky box are stars (no other galaxies). There is no mention of orbital telescopes or their resolution, so I guess we're limited to eyeball observation.

- One star going supernova was seen at the same time across however many hundreds of light years the EVE cluster is.

- Absolutely every single star system, all 5000 of them, are SINGLE STAR with planets in orbit. All the stars appear to be main sequence G.

- Planets don't actually orbit, they are fixed in space. Space stations don't actually orbit, they are fixed in space.

- If you turn off your engines, you stop moving (in space).

- Spaceships turn and maneuver without attitude thrusters, and their mass center isn't aligned with their thrust center.

- A lot of the explosions (missiles) are rings, rather than expanding spheres.

This post is saltier than the ocean.

to quote eve's best error msg: "physics sais 'no'"

it's a game, not a space life simulator.


That's not KSP. KSP is a network of PC hardware stores scattered all around Israel. what you're referring to is a game.

Forget about science , I just want Eve to release their 2015 textures and tessellation or 2014 or 2013 or 2012 ............... :)