EVE General Discussion

nah mate

it was newton came up with relativity

Because in internet spaceships reality > balance

Ships with tiny engines move faster then ships with bigger engines.
Weapons ranges are 250km at most usually much less including light speed lasers.
Turrets track slower by size for no reason.
If you cut power to the engines you drift to a stop.
You can bank your ship.
You can coat your kilometer long ship in an over 5 foot thick layer of armor that fits in a 20m3 space in your cargo hold.
The bigger the ship the longer the target lock when a Battleship can fit a computer the size of a Frigate.
Most ships can not obtain Apollo 11 speeds with giant engines.
There is a hard limit to the amount of mods you can fit on ships and up too at most around twice that on a Frigate when the ship is 10-10000 times a Frigates size.
30m Long Flimsy Space Fighters have the HP of Cruisers.
Starbases / Outpost / Structures can become invincible for like a day but nothing else.
Armor and Hull deplete equally no matter where you shoot them.


It is the lack of time dilation in fictional warp fields that bugs you...

Accept the games fictional workarounds about why nothing works like it should and be glad you don't need to wait a week to turn around and make another attack run.

Imagine if the game was based on *gasp* magic how ridiculous it would be. I support the OP's initiative of aligning game physics and reality but he should start with games that are glaringly oblivious to reality and use such magic-basic shenanigans. OP, it is your moral duty to the world to register a WoW account and place this question on their forums.

Hi,

The Game physics are based on a fluidic model; which whilst not being a model of our universe, is much more intuitive to people who live around a planet and drive cars.

EVE would be far too complicated if it simulated true relativistic and newtonian physics, and that would certainly be impossible to manage in a way that lets the game run as many simultaneous connections as it does.

Now, I would like to remind people to post constructively, please!

What part of space submarines and fluid space doesnt OP understand...

or in other words...

Posting in a 'EvE needs more physics' thread# FINDSOMETHINGELSETOCOMPLAINABOUT.

wat?

To be fair, it would be much easier to balance:

For all the above: -100 HP per application.

Warp drives don't cause you to get anywhere near the local light speed, they create a field (of totally BS space magic) that decreases the mass of the surrounding space (a 'depleted vacuum') resulting in a large negative density for the region around the ship (the 'warp tunnel'), thus raising light speed and allowing speeds of multiple AU/s without even approaching the local light speed.

The downside to to these drives is that when in standby mode (they cannot be turned off safely) the create a force akin to friction that drags the ship into a zero velocity relative to the local gravity well (usually the local star)

You should probably re-read that chapter again, I don't think it means what you think it means.

But as I've said before, I totally think EVE should change the game (via a breakthrough in warp drive technology or something) to actually make the game operate under true physics. Constant acceleration for one, and apply all the laws of intertia.

EVE could be everyone flying around at .94c, unable to turn their ships, taking as long to slow down as they took speeding up, flying past other ships too fast to even notice (much less get a lock), and people on one side of the galaxy having completely different in-game clocks/time than people in other parts of the galaxy.

That would be so much fun. Subs would go through the roof.