EVE General Discussion

But the moons are hollow! Trust me, i tried.

Actually, it could be the solution to the goons once and for all. I'm not sure those guys can figure out orbital mechanics which would mean once they left station, they could never dock again.

The Tranquility Cluster would have to be at least twice the power it is now.
Considering that, you're talking a truckload of additional hardware, let along the algorithms which would be required to keep orbital and gravitational mechanics realistic.

Plus yeah, coming out of a gate and being T-boned by a Moon.

Unlikely to be in EVE anytime soon.

If they did something like this, they might as well name the next expansion:

EVE Online, Wrath of Physics!

Because we'd all be screwed.

I actually tried to figure out how having stuff move would work. The trick is each celestial would have a region of space that it drags around with it. You speed is relative to that region of space. "Zero speed" means you move along with the closest celestial.

The main benefit to the game is visual and immersion. Stations in the dark would sometimes be in the light, and vise-verse. The view you get of the planet or moon your station orbits will change. Thus its a change that would be on par with new nebulae and the stargate jump.

It could also make for "ever changing terrain" for PvP situations, but I think many other changes would be needed for that to actually be a thing. Like distributed objectives that somehow effect each other depending on their location relative to each other.

The bodies are moveing , but science hapens and our ships compensate so we dont see it.

To do that, they'd probably need two tranquilities. You're talking about simulating accurate astrophysics based celestial body motion.

The hamsters would die. Like, immediately DIE.

I think the extra math would be trivial.

First you do not do the gravity calcs. You assume all bodies are in nice stable orbits. That means just one or a few line equation gives the location along the orbit for any celestial as a function of time.

Next you need to figure where your ship is relative to the solar, fixed coordinate system given that its in a moving system. Again a one line equation should be sufficient.

Grids I'm not sure about. I do not know how grids are programmed now.

When I first looked at this idea it appeared each celestial would need a coordinate system moving with it with that surrounded by a buffer zone where the celestial's effects drop off gradually. So if you were at zero speed near a planet and a moon swung around and came at you, you would see it get closer, closer, slow down, and stop as you went through its buffer zone. Once the moon appeared to be stopped relative to your ship, you would be co-orbiting with it. The entire process would take a few minutes. The entire time your speed would stay at zero (assuming you did nothing).

Add some lore about how our ships are not propelled by rocket engines, but by a gravity drive that moves us relative to the nearest celestial body, and we got a system.

"I want more real life physics in my fluid universe spacesubmarine game' thread # 4,179.

Eve is real.


Start small and make stations orbit planets.