EVE General Discussion

I think this will be a good candidate for an expansion, and as a bonus, not very easy to **** up...



- Pantheon Lea

In order to allow that they would have to make the grids way larger. Several 1000s of kilometers or more. They would also have to implement realistic physics in order to do it. The nodes would die....horribly.

Many things have not been coded into the game because there is not in-game reason for them. Orbiting a planet is one of them. Sure its interesting, but not very useful.

As for planets orbiting stars there are issues.

If the planets are in constant motion then we got the issue that they move fast. Earth moves at 30 km /sec about the sun. Sort of hard for a Hulk to keep up with. Hard for a Dramel.

Ship speed could be defined with respect to the planet. We would have to define moving coordinate systems for each planet, so ships would be moving relative to that coordinate system. Then , what would happen if I flew to where the two coordinate systems met? Id be moving at 30 km/sec! Then Id slow down, fall into the planets coordinate system and be going 30 km/sec again. Silly bouncing about ensues.

Then there are bookmarks. They would have to be carried along with the planet. But how close do they need to be before they are carried along? What if I got a safe spot along a planetary orbit, far enough from the planet that its not being carried along, but then the planet moves on top of it?

Another way to do it solves the speed issue, but not the bookmark issue: Have the planet's position update each downtime, but during up time the planets stay put as now.

Then: What about stations, moons, POSes? Do they orbit?

I would love to see orbiting stuff, but all the above would have to be worked out. Sure it could be done, but...

There are so many other issues with the game.

I guess it's always a compromise between what's necessary for fun gameplay and what's necessary to make a realistic-feeling sim.

Perhaps one day some developers will make a space game that has the same scale and scope as EVE but with a more realistic approach?

Any hardcore physics/maths/computer geeks out care to guess how much processing power and bandwidth would have to improve to be able to have a more "realistic" simulation of space with orbiting stuff?

I think since a lot of things would be computerized anyway in the far future, it wouldn't make too much difference to the mechanics - you'd still "warp to" your destination and the game would calculate the right trajectory.

I also wonder how much realism you could have in local physics (e.g. with ships, asteroids, etc.) without the game being too clunky and simmy?

Yes we do.. how else can we bring the gunz on our very serious and important spaceships to bear on the little DUST-bunnies down below?
Once DUST is out, there will be a new kind of griefer. The Bunny-hunter.. the one who orbits planets where bunnies are fighting and nukes them from orbit for fun and giggles.. and harvesting armies of tears ofc. from all the 13-year-old -Dust-Emo-Bunnies.