EVE's physics engine is based on a 'fluid dynamics model' which assumes that 'space' has some substance to it and thus some friction, this means that with the ship engine turned off you will decelerate, ultimately to a standstill. -wiki

Minmatar becomes winmatar again with the square cube law allowing the majority of their ships to become god punishers. Also Avatar pilots have a new place in the universe if they can master a 180 spin while under thrust so that they can literally pin something like the giant thumbtack the avatar is. Amarr would have the definite advantage by having the only capable c weapons with rails coming in a close second. I'm not sure though how I feel about the few years it would take after dying to play again though since your character would have to undergo rehab every time they come out of a cloning vat or the months it would take to play any non-amarr captial since you have to employ thousands of people to run your ship while the amarr can grab a few specialists then use slaves to fill in the gaps as needed. Docking and undocking taking hours will also add time and amusement as well.

Fire a volley of 8x 1400mm Howitzers in real physics environment and see what happens

GǪif my Minmatar you mean Caldari, since they have the only weapon system that can actually hit something and the only ewar that is of any value in a space environment (not to mention sensor tech of near-infinite range).

Not that that near infinite range matters as new eden would promptly collapse in a couple of months, having about ten thousand stars in a roughly 15 by 20 light year distance that are most likely moving at the same rate and direction can't be good for stability.

I think people should be barred from playing the game until they pass an exam on the Lore of the game.

THERE IS A BLOODY REASON WHY THE PHYSICS ARE LIKE THEY ARE. Go read up on the backstory of the game, then come back and apologise for this stupid post that seems to pop up every week.

If you don't like this game, go play something else.

How about a more RL model of space?

What would it help? What would it break? And how difficult would it be to implement?

Personally I would like to fly my spaceship in "space" and not in invisible water.

And that reason is...?

I think people should be barred from playing the game until they pass an exam on the Lore of the game.

THERE IS A BLOODY REASON WHY THE PHYSICS ARE LIKE THEY ARE. Go read up on the backstory of the game, then come back and apologise for this stupid post that seems to pop up every week.

If you don't like this game, go play something else.

12bn isk missioning Marauder.

How about a more RL model of space?

What would it help? What would it break? And how difficult would it be to implement?

Personally I would like to fly my spaceship in "space" and not in invisible water.

Fire a volley of 8x 1400mm Howitzers in real physics environment and see what happens

It would either change nothing (your navigation computer would make the ship behave the same, it would just look different in exactly when the engines fire and in what direction)

I think people should be barred from playing the game until they pass an exam on the Lore of the game.

THERE IS A BLOODY REASON WHY THE PHYSICS ARE LIKE THEY ARE. Go read up on the backstory of the game, then come back and apologise for this stupid post that seems to pop up every week.

If you don't like this game, go play something else.

Wachlisted, More out of hope than anything

This. You tell your ship to stop and it stopps. There is no reason to believe that a futuristic spaceship couldn't automatically countersteer to halt your ships movement completly.

The only benefit something like this could have is saving fuel if you could just stop your engines without telling your ship to automatically stand still. But there is no fuel needed und thus this wouldn't change anything.

Meanie!

How about a more RL model of space?

What would it help? What would it break? And how difficult would it be to implement?

Personally I would like to fly my spaceship in "space" and not in invisible water.

Concord suddenly shows up and destroys your 12bn isk missioning Marauder.

You think OMG WTF and Petition CCP.

GM looks at the logs, and approx 1.5 years earlier, whilst in NULL shooting at some grrr goons, you 'missed' with one of your auto cannons..

...the shells took approx 1.5 years to travel through the eve universe, and somehow hit someones bestower in Jita at the same time you were in Tash-Murkon running a level 4 with you super pimp marauder.

Concord sees this as an act of aggression, radios in your whereabouts, and promptly retaliates.

Douglas Adams much?

It's the anti-Kzinti lesson: the efficiency of a weapon is directly proportional to its efficiency as a manoeuvring thruster.

GǪalso, the more fun way to add realism to the EVE physics model would be to add Brownian motion.

(PS: Kzinti scatter packs 4tw... Klingon's are wannabe drone users)

ESG 4tw

Frankly, I don't much like being talked about like this.

You seem to hiding an anti-gravity device under your jacket.

Explain that, Ms Physics.

Mr Epeen

Why DID they say "fluid dynamics" in the first place anyway?

Why not "Your maneuvering thrusters do all the work but are not displayed. The simulation shows a rocket burn when there is none for clarity only"

That is to say, you come to a stop when you dial your speed down because you set your speed to zero, not your engine burn to "none"

Virtually all games, including all combat flight sims, and all civilian flight sims except X-Plane work this way. They have a preset flight model that varies the vehicles performance based on control inputs but no actual "physics" calculations are going on.

X-Plane is the one exception that I know of. In X-Plane you can design something load it into the sim and see if it will really fly in real life or will crash and burn.

Nah, the warp-core-causes-subspace-drag lore works well enough. If you really want to bake people's noodle, how about making the orbital bodies... orbit. Buh-bye bookmarks.

And if you want to simulate realistic orbital mechanics and physics (n body or patched conic model doesn't matter) you'd better read up on your orbital mechanics before you complain about the various counter-intuitive effects that has.

Well, I would at least have EVE acknowledge that gravity exists.

You know, be able to orbit a moon or planet.

Warp to a sun and have it slowly pull you in when you get too close.

That sort of thing.

I think people should be barred from playing the game until they pass an exam on the Lore of the game.

THERE IS A BLOODY REASON WHY THE PHYSICS ARE LIKE THEY ARE. Go read up on the backstory of the game, then come back and apologise for this stupid post that seems to pop up every week.

If you don't like this game, go play something else.

I seem to recall that the Falcon series had some actual physics built into it alongside that kind of static modelling, which is how it allowed you to get into proper deep stalls, compression stalls and flat spins. Then again, it was aiming to be an actual combat flight sim series GÇö not an arcade game in disguise like the ones you see today.

How about a more RL model of space?

What would it help? What would it break? And how difficult would it be to implement?

Personally I would like to fly my spaceship in "space" and not in invisible water.