EVE General Discussion

In defense of eve... 2015 and we still can't find missing commercial/passenger planes that crashed into the sea, we still have 'surprise!butte-seks' asteroids plummeting down Earth, etc etc.

So no, we still haven't gone that far much really. I think in the last 10 years consumer electronics has advanced much, yeah? All that time, developing personal entertainment devices..

For every scientific question, the Amarr have all the answers:

A giant invisible space-wizard did it.

Don't worry, I appreciated your question and tried to offer the best answer I could.

Here are a few areas where EVE does connect with science:

1) EVE's model of tracking for gunnery, while very simple, captures some of what's interesting about the same problem in the real world.

2) Graphically, EVE's images of natural phenomena (nebulas and planets) are largely inspired by actual photographs of such things, although in real life they'd be far less dramatic to see.

3) Many of the ideas in the game are derived loosely from ideas that have a foundation in real science & engineering. The idea of nanobots that crawl all over your ship or its modules to repair them is fantasy, but it's an extrapolation of where a real engineering discipline might someday take us. Concepts like cloning, wormholes, even faster-than-light travel are all storytelling tropes but still have some connection to legitimate scientific ideas, even if they're in the game as wild extrapolations of those ideas.

Of course, the complete experience of EVE is pure fantasy, and that's as intended. :)

well, yes and no, the idea to be able to actually witness alien star systems first hand seems quite dramatic to me ;)




yes, that's what I tried to refer to, what is science fiction if not fiction extrapolated from actual science?

I have little to no understanding of actual scientific or astrophysical (is that even a word?) science. I hear things here and there, went to a couple conference, read the web and watch youtube, so I know people are actually trying to figure these things out even tho I understand nothing about it myself.

in that regard, I figured you guys at CCP have to have a little more knowledge and base as I do, so I was barely wondering about the underlying scientific basis (if any) about the game.

And you answered to my question rather well, so thank you for that :D


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I don't care, as long as my clothes, tattoos and prosthetics magically reappear in a station when I'm podded.

The answer is no.

My personal major irritations are:

1. Computers that can store only 1 copy of a spacial co-ordinate. You cannot transmit it to whoever you choose. You can only place it in a corporation data structure.
2. Computers that can store a spacial co-ordinate but will not remember a scanned location when you leave the system.
3. Databases that store financial data across systems but cannot store spacial co-ordinates

You get the general idea. The computing power to be able to calculate and warp across the universe exists but we are still stuck with almost medieval equivalent computing power all in the name of making the game more "challenging".

I totally agree and like this attempt. :)
Recently started to read some old Terry Pratchett books again it´s refreshing to read this "outdated" Sci-Fi stuff again. Same for the "Honor Harrington" series. First read was like "dafuq" is this about but after some time I got used the stuff. For EvE it was the whole projectile and friction in space thing. At first I was like hmm, that´s a bit weird but well, at the end of the day it´s fiction and fantasy and all the stuff takes part in an unknown part of space in an unknown time - for us - so who knows what´s possible and why it is.

I wouldn't assume that's the case. :)

It's not in the slightest. One of the worst violations to me is how there is a maximum speed on space ships. In reality they can go any speed until the speed of light (and it of course gets harder the more you approach it).

Another one is the sounds in space. There is no medium for sound to travel through in space.

Also, POSes with storage volumes bigger than their own volume, and the warping and jumping mechanism. There are many many things.

what most people, in my opinion, did not understand

is that I didn't mean to ask if eve was realistic overall

I understand very well that it's a game, meant for entertainment and that most of its features are oriented towards gameplay, enjoyement, some sort of immersion.

I never was expecting any sort of "realistic space travel video game" to begin with.

again, I was wondering about whether or not there were some underlying scientific basis and if there were, what they were. and CCP replied to the right question, but many, I believe took it the "wrong" way and started to make jokes about gameplay features, which I understand are that way for gameplay purpose.

sorry about that