Which again means...this isn't real space....

Earch to Miss Spent...EVE is a game, not real space. It's just pixels on your monitor, rendered by a server that CCP let you play on.

Seriously, if you don't know what falloff is, search for EVE's weapon mechanics, got a great graph there that will show it to you.

Or you could of course set auto-pilot to any hostile null-sec system and let other players show it too you.

And if this really bothers you...


EVE is in space, how come we hear engine sounds from the outside of the ships. Space is a vacuum and in vacuum there is no sound (in before: EVE has sound?)

EVE is in space, vacuum means no friction, how do we stop our ships.

EVE is in space, vaccum means no friction, so bumping into something should make it move it away and should move you at the same speed the opposite way (2nd law of Newton: To every action, there is always an opposed and equal reaction).

How come we can fly through the sun and planets.

How come the planets etc. don't orbit their parent celestial.

Can continue the endless list.

New player friendly pilot here. So if you have questions just join my channel: Crazy Dutch Guy and ask away

But in space there is no friction so why would a shot be inaccurate?

How is it that some in this thread can answer my question seriously and yet someone who professes to be [newbie friendly] answers me in a snippy derogatory way?

I asked a perfectly valid question and expressed my confusion, You could have taken a little time to answer it in a more adult way as others have try to do.

No, your questions aren't "perfectly valid," they are complaints that the game is not realistic, disguised as questions. They are not serious questions, and so people feel free to not answer you seriously.

Also, you're not accepting the answers, but are arguing against them.

We don't like that.

I truly get that this is a space GAME and some sort of reality need to be suspended but I think some of you are missing what I am driving at.

I think of falloff as like, if I was to throw a rock really hard for a while it would travel strait, it then starts to run out of energy and begin to fall, eventually it travels to a point of no return and gravity ends its forward momentum.
In a space game where there is supposed to be no gravity then if I was to be in my space suit with the same rock I chuck it and it would just keep on going till it hit something. I am not talking about accuracy of tracking simply that the projectile would not stop or become less accurate on its course.

Please try to be respectful in your answers, some in this thread really shouldn't be.

Can I ask why we have falloff I do not understand how in space you get falloff. You would either hit, or if you tracking was bad , miss. The projectiles or laser beams would keep on going until they hit something. Especially light, it does not bend except under extreme gravity like a black hole or is reflected.
So why have CCP put it in the game. What am I missing, because based on the laws as we know them space combat would not work as it does in this game so there must be some game play reason they have done it.

I think of falloff as like, if I was to throw a rock really hard for a while it would travel strait, it then starts to run out of energy and begin to fall, eventually it travels to a point of no return and gravity ends its forward momentum.

I truly get that this is a space GAME and some sort of reality need to be suspended but I think some of you are missing what I am driving at.

Please try to be respectful in your answers, some in this thread really shouldn't be.

How is it that some in this thread can answer my question seriously and yet someone who professes to be,

Answers me in a snippy derogatory way? I have read many posts by you and you seem anything but New player friendly. You seem to like the sound of your on voice and are snippy at best. If you want to help new players I applaud you, but please do not do it sounding like a petulant child.
I asked a perfectly valid question and expressed my confusion, You could have taken a little time to answer it in a more adult way as others have try to do.

I truly get that this is a space GAME and some sort of reality need to be suspended but I think some of you are missing what I am driving at.

I think of falloff as like, if I was to throw a rock really hard for a while it would travel strait, it then starts to run out of energy and begin to fall, eventually it travels to a point of no return and gravity ends its forward momentum.
In a space game where there is supposed to be no gravity then if I was to be in my space suit with the same rock I chuck it and it would just keep on going till it hit something. I am not talking about accuracy of tracking simply that the projectile would not stop or become less accurate on its course.

Please try to be respectful in your answers, some in this thread really shouldn't be.

In vacuum, you don't need to spin stabilize the projectiles.

You shouldn't troll in New Citizens you know.

...stuff

As for projectiles, might I suggest that using them in space in the first place is generally a very bad idea?

I did read many of your posts and you are one of the worst "helpers" I have ever seen.

You are a troll be-gone from my life.

YOur posts show you are just another WoW person who came to EVE and doesn't really get the game and whines about it.

I am mad, bro!

OMG are you ******** or just too thick?

Show me WHERE in my OP or anywhere else in this thread I was whining about the game. Just go you scrub. I am done with you. You show a complete lack of any respect or comprehension and belong in WoW.

Can I ask why we have falloff I do not understand how in space you get falloff. You would either hit, or if you tracking was bad , miss. The projectiles or laser beams would keep on going until they hit something. Especially light, it does not bend except under extreme gravity like a black hole or is reflected.
So why have CCP put it in the game. What am I missing, because based on the laws as we know them space combat would not work as it does in this game so there must be some game play reason they have done it.

Can I ask why we have falloff I do not understand how in space you get falloff. You would either hit, or if you tracking was bad , miss. The projectiles or laser beams would keep on going until they hit something. Especially light, it does not bend except under extreme gravity like a black hole or is reflected.
So why have CCP put it in the game.

It's a mixture of

* A question: What is falloff?
* A whine: I don't understand, so why is it in the game.


Then people started to explain what falloff is, yet you kept complaining it's not according to real physics (which again is whining).
Name any game that is build 100% according to real life physics.

Since when is "I do not understand" a whine? Never.

I DID NOT keep complaining. I offered a counter argument.

You are a troll and have been reported as such. Stop posting.

Post 4 = whine why falloff is even in game.

Post 5 = whine that visuals don't matter. If you play EVE on your overview, you are doing it wrong. 3D really matters.

Post 35 = again whining why CCP made falloff in game.

And of course basically you are ignoring or classing all the people who give solid advice on yoru thread and many others as trolls

I think you will get very far in EVE (and this line should be taken with a bucket full of sarcasm).