EVE General Discussion

Eve spaceships are really submarines and the vacuum of space is actually water

This is a game, not in anyway a simulation.

I don't remember exact details but it has something to do with FTL (faster than light) travel capable engines fitted into each ship in EVE. Those special engines create a dragging effect which effectively is constantly slowing down ships so that they need active propulsion to keep their speed. (Or something like that...)

Without these special engines you would go on forever at same speed but you could not use FTL (faster than light) travel.

Particulates and matter still exist in the vacuum of space, you'll still have some friction from matter as well as gravity pull from nearby objects., even if it is negligible.

But yeah, mostly what malaire said. The FTL drives on EvE starships have a dragging effect on normal space, which causes the ships to behave as they do.

I've always used the "your warp core anchors you to the very fabric of the universe".
It's like a ship on water, with an anchor you need a lot of force to move, but additional force to keep moving.

I never bothered with the lore. I tell myself it's an effect of the propulsion system forming a "bubble" in space which then needs to be actively pushed to move. When that bubble hits something else it bounces off, thus the lack of dangerous collisions.

Also, game mechanics and stuff.

Top speed is limited anyway becouse you need more energy to get more speed even in vacuum, and energy is limited... in real world you would need infinite energy to get something with mass to the speed of light, of course in eve that problem is solved by advanced technology :)

The explanation malaire wrote only works too if you consider an global inertial reference, and that these FTL engines drag ships down towards this reference.
But that's fiction, i think the "explanations" are very good anymays, it always comes down to some obscure colateral efect of something...

But i put the question becouse unlike people that thinks that a more real model would be easier and boring... i think otherwise...

While if you want continue at the same speed and same velocity you would not need to do anything... i can only see a situation like this if you are fleeing. combat works around angular velocity, that means constant change of velocity.

In a more real model if you get to top speed by using a afterburner you would continue at that speed, but if you want to turn you would need to activate the afterburner again, if you do not have the capacitor to do it you would turn kilometers away from where you wanted... and that could means the death of the pilot...

You could have too keys associated with the velocity in the six diretcions (up,down, front,back,right,left) insted of only one.. so you could control your ship better.

And all of these can be done while keeping the "normal" control of the ship almost unaltered to people that don't want to control things manually (making the afterburner down you velocity before deactivates for example if you want it).

I really like this explanation rather than 'space submarines'

typically this is explained away by scifi writers with inertial dampening fields

the idea being that if you follow the regular physics of space coupled with the need to get from point A to point B in a timespan less than a generation.

to stop a ship with retrograde thrust pisses away fuel and takes an extraordinary amount of time.
some people like to use braking maneuvers like in Clarke's 2010 or as the Apollo astronauts used in real life
still others go for inertial dampening. which allows a ship to accelerate and decelerate at speeds that would normally reduce the occupants of the ship to a fine paste

now you get the ability to get to velocity and then stop again without it taking half of the book/movie to do so
this also accounts for jet fighter maneuverability in space movies

Apparently this is somewhere in the chronicles, but I've never found the original story that details it, but it is the reasoning:

When a ship is built, it is built around the warp drive 'core' installed inside it (hence why there is no 'warp drive' module you have to buy.

The drive is switched on, and can not be easily powered off

A powered up warp core creates a 'gravity anchro/drag' effect against the fabric of normal space when it is running idle, this is what 'drags' your ship back to a stop when you drives shut down.. the warp core dragging itself to a standstill, relative to space-time fabric.

This also explains why the ships manuever and turn the way they do.

Why the planets do not orbit the sun, however, is still a mystery which causes Caldari scientests to lose many hours of sleep.. Also the logistical problems of cramming so many people on a ball that is only a few hundred kilometers across

8^D