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I'd absolutely love to do that, but it's also not a trivial task and would reduce our performance headroom quite a bit.

Hopefully someday.

MORE MORE MORE of those 'little tweaks' PLEASEEE

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You could as well bend over guns tracking mecanics code. ♥

As long the world visibily in a bunch of bubbles is like zero and there is no keypress for double click the center of screen, there will be no real manual flying for me...

With all respect, the mechanic was broken. Yes, people should manually orbit. Yes, the broken mechanic did provide certain playstyles with a way of killing hard to hit tacklers. It doesn't take away from the fact that the only reason this gave certain playstyles (yours, mine, and others) an advantage was because it was broken, badly, in the first place (changing velocity slightly shouldn't cause your ship to almost stop half the time).

Keeping a mechanic broken, when it can easily be fixed, just because it benefits certain people's playstyles (including mine) doesn't make any sense to me. Fair enough if you want to suggest or lobby a new way of handling tacklers from a solo BS perspective, no worries, but I think defending a clearly broken mechanic is not the way to go about it imo.

So long, web trick

Does this mean the end of Webbing Freighters off gates through Uedama/Niarja (to name a few)? I know the trick is used in combat, but Freighters can be made to warp backwards in certain situations, making it relatively safe to travel through certain areas if you have a webbing partner. Will we now have to wait til the Freighter is fully, or almost, aligned in the right direction?

If you were orbiting with your freighter to get into warp I hate to tell you this but you were doing it wrong.

There is a blatant error in Eve's physics calculations related to orbiting.

Angular velocity is calculated in an approximate fashion that takes into account the relative speed and position of the two ships in question but ignores their rotation.

Easy example, a frigate orbits a stationary target in a circular orbit. In real world physics, the angular velocity of the stationary target, as seen by the orbiting frigate is zero. In other words, the guns of the frigate will always point at the target without the need to turn in any way. Build a paper model if you don't believe me.

In Eve physics, on the other hand, the same 'angular velocity' is calculated for both ships. Which is only correct if none of the ships are changing direction and is thus plain wrong in case of orbiting.

Now, the error would be very simple to fix by calculating velocities based on position changes between server ticks and factoring in the corresponding rotation (just subtract this rotation from the present wrong formula, and voila, everything is correct).

Now, it can be argued that a) this will complicate calculations and b) it is desireable from a gameplay point of view.

a) Can only be answered by the devs

b) Is up for debate. I never get why orbiting in a fast frigate should give me any problems with tracking. A change of the formula would benefit people who actively pilot their ships, would benefit people in smaller ships (new players anyone?) and would make much more sense to the dedicated physics loving space nerd

Thoughts?

I'm surprised that with all of the deeper mechanics and code they have been looking at that they haven't looked at gun tracking and some of the other formulas. I'm sure there is room for improvement somewhere in there, whether its for server performance, or realism or something.

As far as I know, after the end of POS's once Citadels are a thing, the tracking formula is one of the only things not touched since the beginning of the game!

That's what i was talking about with guns tracking mecanics.
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That would add so much to the actual gameplay if it was rewrote.