EVE General Discussion

Still, it becomes highly ridiculous when you consider minmatar long range ammo.
Nuclear vs. Carbonized Lead.
Apparently a nuclear warhead does the same amount of damage (although a different damage type) as an old fashioned lead cannonball... yeeeaahhh

Yeah how is it that my ship reaches a speed cap while the engines are blasting full? And how is it that I slow down without firing engines in the opposite direction...

CCP needs to hire a physicist in the same way WoW needs to hire an econoimist...

I. Every object in a state of uniform motion tends to remain in that state of motion unless an external force is applied to it.

II. The relationship between an object's mass m, its acceleration a, and the applied force F is F = ma. Acceleration and force are vectors (as indicated by their symbols being displayed in slant bold font); in this law the direction of the force vector is the same as the direction of the acceleration vector.

III. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.

Remember the old MMO Jumpgate? It had a physics model like that. Objects in a vacuum with no air resistence or gravity effects. You ship would just keep going virtually forever if you didn't reverse around and apply thrusters. Similarly, it would continue in the original line it was traveling until you applied thrusters to alter your course. In other words, you could get your ship going in a direction, then spin 360 degrees like a ball firing at targets, all while still following the same line of travel. (BTW, I think the old Jumpgate is a free download now, and they keep a server up for people to play around on).

8000 years of "Dark Ages".

I don't think you would need rockets on every side. The engines would have to be very controllable though, so that you could focus more HP on one side than the other.

large ships have no smaller turrets. Every ship has 8 turrets.

We need a capital with 64 different turrets for spectacular gun show.

No are of effect weapons.

Stupid warp drive - instant escape from PvP. Totally nuts. Should be warp when cap is full and guns not active. Not at any time - cause it is PvP breaking.

It seems capsuleer technology can't operate that many guns at once, it's not that fancy.

Smart bombs and Bombs are aoe, explosions in space don't have a concussive blast wave like in an atmosphere so they won't have a radius large enough to matter in most fleet situations (enough to massively increase the lag by working out aoe damage constantly, there's a reason aoe is niche.)

Use a point. You should have to dedicate slots to pvp fits. There are no points or warping in perpetuum though, maybe you should try that and see if it works for you.



The technology was very advanced, and it's possible that the colonists were not the same people that invented them. Nobody at ibm even knows how the chips they make go together enough to make one from scratch.

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Explosive damage works because of the damage pattern of an shrapnel explosion is different to what most people envision as a kinetic (high force on a single spot), though the numbers are a little weird I agree.

Making high tech components is not easy. The most advanced thing you can really hope to make with out special equipment is a diode. But it won't be a very good one.

Useful transistors are completely outside the realm of possibility. You could make an extremely primitive one, but it takes a long time, and still requires special materials. You would end up with something that would be useless for anything except an extremely crappy radio.

So once the spare parts run out, its over. Your dropping from a tech level that can colonize other planets, to a 1940's level at best. I doubt any civilization would survive that.

This sounds like a load of BS rationalization from CCP to lighten their programming and development workload. I think the current system is much easier to implement and balance for gameplay than something based on Newtonian Physics. But to me it seems like and artifice.

Best I can figure, it's a function of particle velocity being inhibited by magnetic fields, introduction of matter, or anything that otherwise prevents the engines from functioning as they should.

A good example would be introduction of a greater density of Hydrogen atoms in the particle stream, or magnetic fluctuations which disrupt the particles in the various reaction chambers. That's using the assumption that the engines are using a form of Particle Acceleration/Fusion technology.