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Introducing Archers to Arrows with 24 Kiloton Warheads
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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#21 - 2012-05-25 21:13:59 UTC
Comparing real-world physics to a fictional computer game always makes for a terrible thread.

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Nova Fox
Novafox Shipyards
#22 - 2012-05-25 21:53:29 UTC
Considering that eve ships are exotic enough to withstand nomral weapons fire that would split a normal ship apart missiles are probably much more powerful than anything earth conventionally throws at each other.

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Lipbite
Express Hauler
#23 - 2012-05-25 21:54:39 UTC
Situation is air-to-air missiles work like a flying shotgun - they deliver warhead as close as possible to the target and then detonate producing directional blast toward the target. This "shot" has certain radius and limited amount of (metal) particles thus small aircraft will get only part of energy (which will tear them apart in most cases anyway). If aircraft is fast - it may outspeed detonation (though I doubt there are aircrafts which can do 20-30km per second - only ballistic missiles). So CCPs physics is close to reality. Except for EVE missiles really suck - unlike in reality where 3 km/s speed won't save aircraft from missile detonation.

Having missile and drone alt I'm somewhat angry toward CCP's talent to devastate parts of their own game and not fixing it for years.
Alavaria Fera
GoonWaffe
#24 - 2012-05-25 23:20:08 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
Comparing real-world physics to a fictional computer game always makes for a terrible thread.

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