EVE Fiction

Technically if any object has infinite mass its apparent mass becomes zero; once an object reaches a velocity relative to C its increasing mass is nullified.

'Drag' in EVE is caused by the warp drive's effects on local space, as well as various inertial compensation techniques used within the ship.

For some reason starships in EVE have their warp drives effectively 'always on', thus the 'drag' effect is due to the warp drive resisting the movement of the ship, effective creating a form of 'subspace drag'.

For comparison, a microwarp drive basically works just like a normal warp drive. The effects of the subspace distortion cause shots which normally would have missed to be pulled toward the ship, hence why signature radius balloons when a MWD is activated.

It wasn't Einstein that first proved or even suggested E=mc^2 , the relativistic factor is Lorentz's and the energy-mass equivalence proposal is Umov's. Lorentz's factor is what we're discussing here and yes it's correct, even in 'warp' space as now we're dealing with another layer of relativistic effects (i.e the object appears to be travelling faster from A but B is in fact travelling slower) as you need to contradict the laws of physics inside your own frame (a galilean concept cough)



Not really as you're going to be considering its energy capacity and actual ability to exert enough force to do work on the object in question at a certain point - lets call this a zenith - so that it accelerates significantly and isn't in fact introducing work to accelerate it to the zenith's velocity to overcome the deceleration caused by the ever increasing inertia of this none-uniform body. If you have an infinite mass of fuel that we could somehow instaneously transport to the ship in question as it is depleted, we still need to understand the chemistry and energy in its bonds.

Warp drives just artificially reduce the distance you're traversing at every point in the field, there isn't a 'pull' but rather a displacement that would cause the misfires, as the 'space' is not there, to in fact be hits.

As some have already stated, the warp drives used in our ships add an extra to the local space around our ships (fluid-space) and the engines attached to the ships can only put so much pressure against that "fluid" which would be acting in a non-newtonian manner. Once that limit is reached the ships accelerate no faster, as various components cannot handle the stresses being used against them. Afterburners extend this by incorporating safety overrides at the allowance of more speed (at the cost of increase capacitor useage to keep the hull intact), while MicroWarpDrives dip you into the warp layers, whilst still keeping you in "real" space - much like how pond skaters skitter ontop of the water, but don't break its tension.

In relation to warp drive speeds, I've always imagined it as space being layers of an onion, with the higher warping AU ships being able to punch down lower into the numerous layers - an interceptor can get to the speeds because of an oversized warp engine compared to its mass, whilst the opposite is also true: a freighter is so massive, the warp drives can only just make it dip into to the first layers.

I've not actually read an official explanation for it yet and most of the explanations I have read seem a little weird to me, as in, they make me ask more questions... If a warp drive slows a ship down that much (a couple hundred m/s is pretty slow in terms of space flight), why aren't there ships that don't have warp drives? They would have a pretty big tactical advantage. They could not go anywhere other than where they are stationed (or they could be carrier bound) but I guess in a lot of situations, the ability to move would be worth more than the ability to possibly warp somewhere?

If the spaceships in the game were to behave like actual ships in space would/might, the game would be dramatically different and fighting in spaceships would be much less like locking and F1ing things and probably much more about spending 3 hours to line up that perfect shot that's going to instantly cripple another ship and that shot would be fired from such a great distance away that the combat would probably just look like an actual spreadsheet with a space background, with ships moving so fast that trying to look at them would probably end up being boring.

There are some people who have built 'weapons' into their spaceships in KSP. You should look up some of those videos on Youtube and then imagine everything going on at 5-10x the speed and everything being 5-10x further away from each other.

I guess in short, the game would play out entirely differently if it wasn't submarines in space, stuff like taking a stargate or docking with a station would have to be super carefully executed... people might crash into planets, moons and suns all day (which would be funny)...

I should really read up a bit more on Eve lore.. why do planets and moons and stars not move and why are asteroid belts static collections of rocks in space? I guess the simple answer is because Eve is a rather simple and easy to grasp simulation of how space looks so we can put fancy spaceships and explosions there. The lore answer is probably going to be all sorts of complicated and throw up more and more counter arguments and questions. Just think of Eve as a different universe with different laws of physics =p

It's because the wrap drive creates a bubble of drag, which your engines must push against. It's also what makes ship "bounce" off of eachother without doing any damage, and the reason time dilates when massive numbers of ships accumulate in one area.

assuming that our ships are always in Orbit AND are using the same Type of stuff Current day Tech, I would assume That 0M/s is really just the lowest SAFE speed your ship can go before it falls into orbit and the max speed is the fastest SAFE speed it can go before it escapes the planets gravity well.

smaller ships can accelerate quicker therefore their Fastest safe speed is higher since it can easily correct it's orbit, NOW as for Drag in Space Assuming what I just said is true then The Drag in space Is just the spaceship's Reaction control system R.C.S and Inertial dampeners working to Auto correct it's orbit.

Now see I explained that Using real physics without inventing up a new technology.