EVE General Discussion

Are awesome! I thought it was a trivial change and didn't give more than a "meh" when I saw it in the patch notes, but actually flying up to one of these things in game is a totally new experience. Maybe it's because we're so used to the flat stargates, but seeing a large object break the ubiquitous plane of everything else in Eve and feeling the slight bit of vertigo that came with that made me really feel like I was in a true 3D space, whereas before I felt like I was on a more or less flat surface where I was allowed to move up and down a little.

CCP, please apply this treatment to stations as well! Make them oriented with the surface of the planet/moon they're orbiting :)

That would severely mess up people's bookmarks, not sure you'd want to go there.

I really dislike this "you mess up people bookmarks" argument. Things change constantly in an MMO and thats a good thing. Do these people also dislike the hybrid changes because they have to change their fits now?

Such a simple change like reorienting the station could possibly add so much immersion. I was undecided about the stargate realignment but after doing some trips through space I was amazed that it adds so much more immersion and breaks this rather stupid twodimensional plane feeling EvE always had.

I think the orientation of anchored objects needs to be re-worked in general and when it's done, it should be done with the forethought that eventually orbiting solar systems would be planned. While I'd be awesome to have orbiting celestial bodies in space and to have star-bases and outposts to be more orientated with them, there was a post a long time ago stating that the sheer mathematics involved in developing this would be astounding.

While I'd love to see this happen someday, the resolution to the bookmarks issue would be that instead of a bookmark being a relationship of where your ship is in a solar system, you'd need to make it relative to the position of the nearest object in space. For example, an instant undock would be relative to the station, not to a X/Y axis of a grid in a solar system. Hopefully we're getting to the point in technology where supporting a more realistic environment is plausible in EVE.

The amount of variables to make much of these types of things possible in a video game are astounding when you begin to think of all the moving parts necessary to make it work.

^^ This too, would be way more fitting to have them in a random distribution in a zone.

How about, for lack of a better word, a 'modular asteroid' ?

It has multiple 'layers' (like the onion in Shrek :P )

To get at the inside layers (of innevitably better ores) you have to mine away at the outer layers

So, you could have a large asteroid almost like a diced onion, needing to remove the outer layer, or pieces of it to get to the better pieces in the middle.

To an extent this will hinder the 'cherry picking' that goes on in belts

It was just an idea. These could also/instead be 'meteors' that have to be scanned down to be mined?

It is pretty cool, I agree.

Also, if you look carefully and site down the stargate's "tube" axis, you can spot the star you will be going to. It'll be a little brighter than most others in the background, and if you look in that exact spot on the background after landing, you won't see it any more.

It's a nice little touch :)

Make stations orbit the planet. Dont give a f*** if its turned one way or another. But stations have to orbit planet, otherwise they would fall.
And to hell with bookmarks. And make its speed like 1km/s. That would reduce stupid dock/undock games and station camping.

You've never heard of geostationary orbit then?

EVE is a space game, not a space simulator. Orbiting stations and celestials would add precisely nothing to the game.

Geostationary orbit means your orbit keeps you over the same spot on the planet... your orbit speed matches the rotation of the planet.

It doesn't mean you hold still in space.