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Additional Fun Numbers:
* The speed of light in a vacuum is 299,792,458 m/s. (3 million m/s). .

Thats pretty goddam funny. How exactly did you lose the two orders of magnitude? Not really any point looking at the rest of your "maths" after that one is there. More importantly why did all the other wannabe scientists in the thread not notice it. For those who still don't see it the speed of light is a shade under 300 million m/s, not 3 million m/s.

Probably the most famous and important number in science and you got it wrong in a "look at me" post.

It all seems to depend on the flight time. We don't know that information and we can't simply assume it's 0.1 seconds or whatever. Heck, if we even assumed it was 4.whatever seconds (the cycle time) that significantly increases the mass of the round.

1> You know we have warp technology right? The shells could easily be been propelled very slowly and the energy is used to fire is been used to create the warp tunnel, not to accelerate the shell.

3> I was under the impression that with rails/hybrids, each only used half the shell as an actual projectile, the other half was used as power/propulsion depending on the type.

4> ...Super-conducting loops would have similar properties and be capable of storing near infinite amounts of energy.

t describes railgun rounds as being accelerated by gravity. I wouldn't think that anything traveling via Eve micro-warp tunnel would be affected by gravitational acceleration

Judging from the size of a Cap Booster 25 charge, that's not likely. See a few posts up.

I agree that 0.1 seconds was arbitrary. However, the numbers go beyond silly if you assume shorter time units or even instant hits.

If you used a fission/fusion device to propel the round, then it would no longer be a railgun.

Railgun ammo containing a power source plus the warhead would make sense, if it was described anywhere in Eve, game-wise or in the fiction. There's also another big problem with the idea:

Let's extrapolate by looking at a Cap Booster 25. A Cap Booster 25 provides 25 GJ of energy with 3kg of mass in 1m^3 volume. Unfortunately, the volume of a large railgun round is merely 0.05m^3. Thus it's not far fetched to assume that Eve technology cannot create a large hybrid round that provides a significant amount of additional energy to power the shot.

It would matter if your teeny tiny itsy bitsy shell hits a whipple shield.

Other considerations:
* what prevents the "lead plasma" from smashing against the titanium case during acceleration?
* why would a railgun not have solid projectiles?
* why does Lead ammo require less power than an anti-matter round?
* why does the ammo type have such a drastic effect on range?
* why use anything but anti-matter?
* why can we fire through solid objects?
* why are weapon ranges so short?
* seriously, a shell full of lead plasma?

No dear, it's called playing with numbers. Some people enjoy analyzing the pseudo-science behind sci-fiction games to see just how far off it is.

I agree that it is very likely for the shell to have a power generation of some sort. Also, it would be the most accurate, in my opinion, to use the base energy consumption, without skills, as the cap efficiency would come from being able to use the fluxuating magnetic fields of your ship to get the power, rather than your capacitor.

Pointless. Its a made up game about made-up spaceships using made-up technologies.

Further attempts to use maths/real logic will be met with contradicting quotes from a made-up wiki.