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Are mining barge parts moving too fast?
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Hal Morsh
Doomheim
#1 - 2014-02-14 00:24:26 UTC
As usual in ships everything looks pretty much the same size. You notice all the dots on a ship are actually windows and realize how huge it is.

Well I was mining, and looking at my retriever. I noticed it has pistons, and these containers underneath flying back and forth. I also decided to think, well those things must be huge. How and why are they moving that fast? It's as big as a house. Are they containers to move ore back and forth? There would be no time for anything to be put in them on one end at all, it would be like trying to shove cheerios in some guys mouth while he rode by on a bike.

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stoicfaux
#2 - 2014-02-14 00:35:48 UTC
They move even if you have no ore. Thus, they are the equivalent of "red stripes" (putting red stripes on a vehicle makes it go faster.)

Ergo, adding pistons to your barge makes it mine faster.

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Hal Morsh
Doomheim
#3 - 2014-02-14 00:44:48 UTC  |  Edited by: Hal Morsh
They also have gears if you look for them on the front side. But the description says something about a "fast loading system" so I figured the moving parts were related to that. Just that they move too quickly.

The hulk having fire out the sides is honestly a cool effect though, and makes plenty of sense.

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Lugia3
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#4 - 2014-02-14 00:45:45 UTC
Hal Morsh wrote:
shove cheerios in some guys mouth while he rode by on a bike.


Challenge accepted.


EDIT: Ouch.

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Eleanor Wish
Center for Advanced Studies
Gallente Federation
#5 - 2014-02-14 01:02:02 UTC
Video or it didn't happen.
ACE McFACE
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#6 - 2014-02-14 01:24:07 UTC
The wizard did it

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R3D SHIFT
#7 - 2014-02-14 01:43:14 UTC
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Viziam
Amarr Empire
#8 - 2014-02-14 01:53:59 UTC
I was this close to making a thread about Naglfar elevators.

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Unsuccessful At Everything
The Troll Bridge
#9 - 2014-02-14 02:08:11 UTC
Barges have pistons because they're steam powered. Steam was chosen for barges simply because their pilots are known to be full of hot air.



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Riot Girl
You'll Cowards Don't Even Smoke Crack
#10 - 2014-02-14 02:27:04 UTC
How much slower should the parts move and how much should the mining yield be nerfed to reflect to slower movement of the parts?

Oh god.
Fredfredbug4
The Scope
Gallente Federation
#11 - 2014-02-14 02:35:28 UTC
Hal Morsh wrote:
How and why are they moving that fast? It's as big as a house. Are they containers to move ore back and forth? .


How do Titans, ships bigger than most cities, jump across dozens of lightyears of space in but a blink of an eye?

It's the future dude, anything is really possible.

Though if you want a real explanation, I'd imagine a combination of magnetic repulsion as well as the vacuum of space allows those containers to move back and forth with essentially zero drag and friction. Wouldn't be too hard assuming what is propelling them is strong enough.

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Mallak Azaria
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#12 - 2014-02-14 03:20:51 UTC
I too wish for realism in a game where I am immortal & fly a huge spaceship through space which functions more like a submarine.

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Jochiel Shi
Khanid Prime Free Irregulars
#13 - 2014-02-14 04:59:45 UTC
Lugia3 wrote:
Hal Morsh wrote:
shove cheerios in some guys mouth while he rode by on a bike.


Challenge accepted.


EDIT: Ouch.


Thank you sir. Its been a long time since i laughed this hard at a non-troll-eve post!

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djentropy Ovaert
The Conference Elite
The Conference
#14 - 2014-02-14 06:40:04 UTC
Mallak Azaria wrote:
I too wish for realism in a game where I am immortal & fly a huge spaceship through space which functions more like a submarine.


this totally made my day and i approve this message :)
Mythrandier
Solace Corp
#15 - 2014-02-14 07:06:08 UTC

This is clearly an issue vital to the VERY SURVIVAL OF EVE.

Thank you for bringing it to the attention off CCP.


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P.P.S This is now an EVE is dying thread.

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Nevyn Auscent
Broke Sauce
#16 - 2014-02-14 07:06:35 UTC
Unsuccessful At Everything wrote:
Barges have pistons because they're steam powered. Steam was chosen for barges simply because their pilots are known to be full of hot air.

Actually, while they do remind me of steam engines, if I remember right, those big axle connected wheels on a steam engine are some kind of flywheel arrangement that helps moderate the power flow aren't they? I'm not super big on steam engines. But they could easily be some arrangement of that sort, that keep momentum going in a moderated fashion on some other part.
TigerXtrm
KarmaFleet
Goonswarm Federation
#17 - 2014-02-14 07:20:53 UTC
In a universe where we can build ships multiple kilometers long, why wouldn't we be able to build super sized pistons that move as rapidly as small ones?

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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
#18 - 2014-02-14 07:44:41 UTC
Of all the possible complaints...

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OK, I give up. I can't muster the necessary give-a-fsk to troll this.

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Rhatar Khurin
Doomheim
#19 - 2014-02-14 09:06:25 UTC
I remember this convo started in EVE-Radio chat.
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
#20 - 2014-02-14 09:36:08 UTC
Rhatar Khurin wrote:
I remember this convo started in EVE-Radio chat.


And it continued?

Whyyyyyyyy?
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