EVE General Discussion

Is it just me or does this annoy anyone else that plays? I align to POS or Station however my ship wants to automatically "level" to an imaginary horizon line. I dont quite understand why it does this and it may cost me valuable seconds when needing to re-align. Would be nice to see this removed or made optional, or someone tell me I'm overlooking something.

What annoys me even more is that the game has been coded so that one is actually off by a few degrees when trying to make an insta undock. For the perfect insta undock one must manually adjust ones direction upon undocking. Didn't used to be this way.

And that we are not allowed to fly upside down to everyone else.

Another one that often blows people's minds: the client is a lie.

Every ship in EVE is represented in the physics engine as a sphere with a velocity vector. If the vector has a magnitude of 0, it has no direction.

Example: it takes roughly 10 minutes for a ship's velocity to round to 0 m/s after stopping (even the fastest frigate), and when this happens, the ship model will often appear to "flip" or change direction, as the client no longer knows which direction to point the ship.

This is also what allows large ships to warp sideways: only +/- 2 degrees alignment is required to warp, but the client model can appear wrong.

Then there are collision spheres, and zero spheres, etc.

Fanfest 2014 - A Study of Geometry in EVE Online

All the rolling and pitching of your ship does not effect your align time in the slightest. Your ship accelerates in the direction you tell it to go like a ball in a viscous liquid would accelerate when a constant force is applied to it. All the ship attitude changes you see are just cosmetic, fabricated locally by your client, placed there to look cool.

That said, I don't really like all ships settling to the horizontal plane, which is the ecliptic plane of the solar system. Also, its the same plane for all solar systems, and all solar systems have the same ecliptic plane. That is, they are all parallel to each other. (You can see that from the position of the stars and nebulae.)

Then you're making them wrong, far enough away and if you warp early enough you don't lose any time undocking and warping, atleast, all of MY insta undocks work :P

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Someone needs to reread their high-school physics textbook.

I appreciate this thread.

If there is no gravity in space, then where is gravity located?
It may or may not be in space, but it is 'somewhere' effecting space. Eh?
And I'm speaking of all known space, not just mass. Mass is not gravity.
And if you could solve that age old question, I suppose you would no longer be confined by space and time any longer, provided you could manipulate it.

I have my theories on that, but as for EVE, space is full of tears.