So I just watched a documentary on nat geo about aliens invading, and how Earth's population might defend from it. Turned out the ultimate weapon was some nonsense, about infiltrating enemy carriers with latex balloons and destroying them from the inside on a suicide mission.


So my question is, what if capsuleers invaded Earth? What if Amarr, Minmatar, Caldari and Gallente combined forces to take over?

What could we do to stop them? Could we stop them? Balloons?

Fire away.

What could we do to stop them?

current day earth would be screwed. planetary bombardment.

Would be a suicide attack though.

I don't think EvE ships are capable of planetary flights since most of them lack wings and are crazy heavy.

They usually have a range of 200km or so. That's in low earth orbit meaning all the ships would slowly start to descend and crash.

They might be able to lay waste to a lot of cities, but eventually they'd crash and burn themselves.

You haven't seen a single dust trailer have you.

I have, I just know that the actual weapons capsuleers currently have available would not be able to do that. It's far outside their range.
We might get access to planetary bombardment in the future, but that technology is currently not yet present in the EvE universe.

You're taking the game mechanics too literally.

What else should we base our numbers on?

They have galaxy crossing tech.
They populate thousands of worlds.
Their ships work outside normal physics.
Its within reason to believe the real world equivalent of their weaponry is beyond anything we could adequately counter.

Definitely true, but there was also a long, long dark age after which all that technology was rediscovered.

Looking at all the numbers that feature in EvE, especially the extremely short ranges combat occurs at (they could've easily multiplied all distances and speeds by a factor of 10 or more without changing gameplay in any way or form), I've always been under the impression that much of the technology was reverse-engineered from left-overs of the time the EvE-gate was still active rather than truly being understood by all the races.

This seems to match with the discovery of T3 cruisers which feature advanced technology and have all been created from salvaged materials and can not be made without any salvaged materials.

This would put the EvE universe in a rather unique spot of having access to incredibly advanced technology in some fields but, lacking the true understanding of that technology, very limited tech in other fields.

I could easily be wrong though, but it just seems a bit odd that the devs choose to make things shoot 10km when they actually meant 100km.

but it just seems a bit odd that the devs choose to make things shoot 10km when they actually meant 100km.

Not really. Gameplay reasons and all.

RL space combat would be very, very, very, VERY boring. You would never see your enemy. You would never see the enemy's weapons or vice versa. And that doesn't make for good trailer footage.

What could we do to stop them? Could we stop them?

Define "We".

Would be a suicide attack though.

I don't think EvE ships are capable of planetary flights since most of them lack wings and are crazy heavy.

They usually have a range of 200km or so. That's in low earth orbit meaning all the ships would slowly start to descend and crash.

They might be able to lay waste to a lot of cities, but eventually they'd crash and burn themselves.