Player Features and Ideas Discussion

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Read a book about astronomy, and look up what a kilometer and a second are.

yes I know what a kilometer is, I just used by 1000 since then it would be easier math. better woud be around 50-100.
if you were as close to a planet as we get when just going to do PI we would rapidly drop into the atmosphere at the speeds that most ships travel at.
I figured people would have issues with the second part, but I just thought I would toss it out there.

not going slower than some cars out there.

not for space it isn't. that's why I was saying that I want them to go faster than some cars.
I say some cars because there a couple different bugatti models that went faster, and there are the non-production vehicles that are done to break landspeed records. and that's 120M/s which is about as fast as my navy mega.
generally if you're looking for speeds that are happening in space, look more for the speeds that fighters are doing for the lowest speeds we would reach, preferably more.
EDIT: and in order for a car to go faster than a freighter, it would only need to do 290KM/H.

Curiosity is currently travelling 102698 km/h == 28527 m/s.
It weighs 2 tonnes.

http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov/images/spacecraftnow/msl_today5.jpg

Someone doesn't get how gravity wells work ...

Unless you're right next to a gravity well, there's really not much speed needed at all, remember that gravitational attraction is exponentially proportional to distance (as a refresher, F = G(m_1*m_2)/(r^2)). Meaning that ships that will never enter a gravity well (like all ships in Eve) don't really have to worry about it.

Also, you're really not thinking if you don't get the irony of what you just said. If a ship needs to go fast (to get lift in an atmosphere), then going fast is what causes a "firey death". The thing that causes heat is the atmosphere, which an Eve ship will never come in contact with since they're deep-space ships.

And the biggest thing you're not getting is that gameplay > realism. Always, with no exceptions. Speeds/sizes are balanced right now, there is no reason to change it. Period.

*facepalm* The gravitational attraction is proportional to the product of the masses of the two bodies. Meaning that the gravitational attraction between a planet and a sun is immensely larger than between a sun and a small craft.

And that's all academic, because gameplay > realism, which means that they won't change the system anyways.

I can't tell if you're being intentionally stupid or if it just comes naturally, but I can see that it's pointless trying to talk sense into you, so I'm going to stop wasting my time.

the game changing part's why I suggested just a game wide multiplication of 1000, that way for the players it would still be using essentially the same numbers. possibly some tweaking of tracking would be in order.
http://freemars.org/jeff/speed/index.htm
satellites still need to go quite quickly. and when we warp to a planet, we are well within the well created by the planet. same with the moons, they may not have as much effect, but they are still going to effect us.

yes, I know it's a game, and part of that is not throwing suspension of belief out the window. that's why I'm suggesting this is because I can't see ships in space flying around at these comparatively minuscule speeds.