EVE General Discussion

You're doing it wrong.

I have an 85 AU safe in the middle of nowhere

From what I understand warping needs a start and endpoint to function, but also needs proof of "clear space" and with out some thing to focus on or a preexisting flight path the governor in the navcomp wont make a warp tunnel that could pass through dead space. And I assume that slamming in to dead space with a warpdrive brakes it and strands you.

You can get 20 AU beyond the outermost planet of a system but rumour has it that there is still a safe spot several lightyears towards jove space made by a pilot who tried to get into the Jove empire.

The ability to warp wherever you wanted to at the press of a button would render D-Scan super-powerful, they would have to nerf it totally.

Imagine scanning down an enemy ship and warping to them directly, no probes required. Yummy ? Yes, but stupid.

If CCP ever decided to allow us to warp around as you suggest, then the dangers of warping into an anomaly, a space-time rift, a planet, moon, sun or a myriad of other possible disasters, should be part of the reality. Instant death, instant podding, no chance of any damage control or survival.

As it is, we warp thru objectas in space, but bounce around on some gates like yo-yo's on rubberbands.
Must have something to do with this submarine simulator we play.

o/

You dont have the pilot skill that is why, one second too late will put you thousands of kilometers off target, and you have to spend hours flying after that, Be almost impossible stop the ship on destination by human pilot.

It breaks down to it as a very simple answer.

CCP didn't know how to make space actually like space.

I had heard EVE was supposedly open during developement, but the developers thought there would be very little player interaction to the point people would just bypass those "bad ass rouge rogue Pirate Captains of the galactic sea" and it wasn't a Good Idea(tm). So we have these "jumpgates with manual request to cross" very well hidden, which unlike say EQ1 which had very well defined zone lines to cross (but in the end, EVE is the same thing as EQ1: They are seperate rooms).

Open world is just that, open. EVE is not open. EQ1 wasn't open. They were just a series of rooms connected with various doors to chokepoint player interaction, which breaks down to gate/station camping. Add some travel time between gates with a Starwars like "warp tunnel" to make to make it appear you can make the Kessel run in 12 parsecs but instantly appear in the next system at a gate and you have EVE space travel in a nutshell. Something that looks fancy, but in reality its like Bowling with the gutters buffered up, you are the ball and the bad guy is the pins...if you can't go in the gutter to bypass you have go straight through the bad guys camping the other side of the lane.

So, did you just slow boat in a MWD equipped Frigate for a few days. I'd love to make some 'staging' safes galactic north and south of the ecliptic in a WH but the only way I see being able to do that is to slow boat out the distance. Sounds like a lot of work.

Am I missing something?

Thats not quite how it works

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Originally, in order for a warp drive to generate the warp bubble, it requires a gravity well to "lock on" to. If there isn't a gravitational well, then no warp bubble can be generated.

This created difficulties, as FTL travel was only possible between large celestial objects with significant gravity. Eventually beacons were developed which created an artificial gravitational signature which warp drives could lock on to without needing a large gravitational well. These beacons were installed on virtually every significant structure in space - stargates, stations, complexes, etc...

Obviously, this fails to explain safespots. You might be able to explain it away though by having recent developments in warp technology allowing warp drives to create a "virtual beacon" which it can use to lock on to any location it has been to before (even mid-warp). Instead of depositing an actual physical beacon, the warp drive collects information about the gravitational anomalies unique to that location in space. Using this information, the warp drive is able to "remember" the location and warp to it as if there were a beacon there.

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