EVE General Discussion

Look at the engine placement some time.

Those aren't engines. EVE ships move by creating and then surfing along a space-time disruption (or wave.) The ship's center of mass doesn't really matter when you're riding along in a bubble of warped space.

The "engine" exhaust you see is just the "waste" particles created by the internal space-time wave creation propulsion device. Meaning, the engines aren't engines; they're the exhaust system. (You don't rely on your car's exhaust to move, do you?)

This is EVE. Newton don't fly here.



P.S. The real question that you should be asking is: "Why we can't we add whistle tips to our ships...?"

The CCP version looks broken. Like it literally flew into a wall and broke its... front nose? Leg?

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Yes because stabilizers were never invented...
Also in the 25th and 1/2 century we managed to harvest gravity in order to slingshot ourselves from one star to the other but we are still facing the age old question and predicament - where to put the propeller?...

I'm honestly quite a fan of this new trend of making Caldari ships bird-like, because it also fits their naming convention and makes it seem like they have a style.

Amarr have that calligraphy style to ship design, Gallente use soft curves, Minmatar have hard edges with lots of flat surfaces and solar arrays, but for a while Caldari ships were just amorphous randomized boxes.

I also like that the new Caldari designs are still looking to maintain some elements of asymmetry on the designs that have traditionally been asymmetrical, like the Blackbird.

You obviously have no idea what the mass distribution of the Caracal hull is. You see, that stubby bit that houses the engines also houses the missile racks, the ammo, crew quarters (including lounge, mess hall etc.) and the drones (lol). That long nosy bit really only holds a light-weight sensor suite.

Engine placement is therefore perfect.

Son, I am disappoint.

I didn't realize that the Caracal, Osprey, Slasher, and Tomenter were Gallente Ships!

Heh... and I thought I was a grammar-nazi.

Nope. No confirmation whatsoever. But more importantly, we don't really have any details on how anything works in EVE. Aside from a bit or two about how warping and interstellar travel work, we have nothing about how ships move at sub-warp speeds, why spaceships fly like they're in a fluid, how weapons really work, ships have infinite energy, etc.. And what's really annoying is that any attempt to apply real world knowledge/assumptions to "equivalent" EVE technology fails because it's so easy to point out how EVE's physics winds up contradicting real world physics, e.g. railgun ammo.

Heck, for all we know, the engines really are engines and the reason they're not placed around the visual center of mass is because ship designers can sprinkle neutron star dust around the hull to radically alter the ship's center of mass. (A teaspoon of neutron star material would weigh more than 10 million tons...)


EVE Physics are like Star Trek Physics. Lots of sci-fi buzzwords, no hard science, full of inconsistencies, and changes to fit the current plot.