EVE New Citizens Q&A

Confirming this, and it's more than 2-3 seconds, I'd estimate 10.

No, it doesn't.

Signature radius affects the gravity bubble of your ship,
which means that it will be easier to hit with turrets,
because everything shot at it easier "falls" onto the ship.

It does not affect collision, though, because ...
... how do I ......

If sigrad affected collision,
you could bump a mwd titan from so far away it would look stupid and ruin the game.

Same for every ship with big sigrad and mwd on.
As this is not being widely know,
which it would be,
we can safely conclude that sigradius does not affect collision.


:)

Or the other way round.

You do not see ships which are close to a battleship
magically get bumped away just because it turns on it's mwd.


Sheesh, no offense, but it sounds like you don't actually play the game. :)

This is half true.

Ships with an aligntime above the cycletime of a mwd actually benefit from it.
A mwd can as well lower your actual aligntime.

But I'm sure I'm not the only one that thought so.

People should express their feelings, it's just... natural!

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It affects deceleration time. I put deceleration (3) before cruise (2) because to calculate cruise time you need to calculate cruise distance, and for that you need to calculate deceleration distance (though it's a fixed 3 AU if your warp speed is less than or equal to 6 AU/s)

Hmm no, you have distance on top, distance/time below, so you end up with time! \o/

I honestly don't remember why the 1 AU constant should be in meters! I think it depends on how CCP coded it... :)

Anyway, it works: it gives results consistent with this, except on short distances as I mentioned.

I indeed made a mistake doing my analysis, I stand corrected, sorry and thank you !

Time to crunch more numbers now :)

We are !

This thread is a mine of good information aswell. I'm gonna do maths, find wrong results, do it again and find it correctly :D

I would like to write a little function to calculate the exact time for warp including align time and warping time. You put me on the right track

I know I'm a bit late with this and some of it's redundant now, but:

Collision radius, signature radius, and effective drag radius (expressed as top speed, but it affects your handling roughly like fluid drag on a sphere) are all independent variables. Collision radius is actually straight-up fixed, and altering the other two will not impact each other unless a specific module effect alters both.

Generally speaking your in-warp acceleration phases are going to be significantly shorter than the time required to hit your top warp speed, so in calculation terms you can take a stopwatch, hit warp to an aligned point at known distance, subtract the distance divided by your max warp speed, and add that as a flat number to every warp in that ship/fit.

There is no special "braking", only acceleration in the opposite direction of the one you're going in your frame of reference. The math is the same for "stopping" as it is for approaching non-zero fixed speeds in any other manner, turning, etc. Turning is a bit more complex, but not THAT much more complex if you convert your 'max speed' variable to a drag force in your calculation sheet.

Again I believe that I read this on jester's trek but I recall reading that your ability to decloak someone is based on your visual ship's size. The sphere thing I think is correct for everything else in game. I'm not a PvPer so I can't speak from experience but jester's trek did a how to for catching cov ops cloak ships when gate camping.