I think she is calling us all stupid...

I can find little counter evidence.

tl;dr: "new eden is an ocean"

EVE physics is not realistic as everybody else has already said. It's a shame the "fluid" nonsense doesn't make any sense either.

The most annoying thing to me is how wrecks stop moving when you kill something that was moving. The max range on guns is also fairly ridiculous.

... and Species 8472.



Says you. Do we look like DUST bunnies?



Right., it can't be done.

(Oh and the last pic is of a ship going directly from space into planetary atmosphere. Indy game, cost less to make that what CCP spends on pizza in a year.)

GǪand anyway, I prefer the Futurama solution: since you can't go faster than the speed of light, increase the speed of light.

Surely one of the biggest atrocities against relativistic physics in this game is the instant communication.

I can be in a station 10AU (80 light minutes) from an asteroid belt and get instant intel from the belt that there's three untanked Hulks there from a scout and assemble a fleet to obliterate them well before the message should have even travelled 1AU.

Of course this is needed for the game to be entertaining.

Would it be safe to say that this is both a very and not very frustrating issue for you?

...I see they teach you ISDs about as much physics as the physics programmers :)

We can perform the experiments, but even in principal you can't use entanglement to transfer information. Hence why I took issue with "possible in the near future". As far as we know, it won't be possible ever :(

Oh well, as has been rightly pointed out EVE doesn't have to be realistic as long as it's fun.

The reason for this: Measure one particle's state and you gain some information, but until you know what the state of the other particle was measured to be your information is useless. The only way to find out what the state of the other particle was is to have the information about its state transmitted classically.. slower than light.

This would work if at the transmitting end you could choose the state of your entangled particle to be 1 or 0, but the problem is you can't do that. When an entangled state is created the spin of the particle is random, which means the other member of the entangled pair also has random spin -- so no fancy checksumming or parity system will work. The only decision you get to make is when to measure the state (and whether or not you measured it is not something the other person can determine without first sending their results for comparison).

Here's a math analogy: Think of two people sitting in different galaxies, both with random number generators with the same seed. One of the two generators has a random pattern ("the message") XORed with its output. Both people can both generate random numbers whenever they want, but can't examine the state of the generator or otherwise communicate. Is it possible for one of the two people to determine the message? Clearly it's not possible unless you can compare the output of the two generators -- which means sending the output of one of them slower than light, and this defeats the whole purpose of your messaging system.

Wait what?

Also space is a liquid.