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Posted - 2006.12.15 22:13:00 -
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I've been writing and thinking about stories based in EVE and a pretty major confusion has come up. If one faction is attacking a system held by another is there anything stopping the defending system turning off it's stargates to give it time to arm itself/turn them back on for a surprise attack/avoid the invaders altogether?
If they can turn off the gates, what can the invaders do about it? Do "real" EVE ships have jump drives that can work without a cyno ship or do they just point their ship at the system and hit warp. If the do just warp there, why don't fleets do that all the time to get past defenses, or do they?
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Posted - 2006.12.15 23:59:00 -
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 Originally by: Tykari
I'm not sure if one can turn off a stargate. They were designed to keep the wormhole open at all times once connected. As for real jumpdrives, they do not exist yet.
So you'd ahve to destroy them or shut them down permanently? Like the Jove did I guess.
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Posted - 2006.12.17 00:17:00 -
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Originally by: Viktor Fyretracker
AFAIK the stargates are allways on, now in game missions deviate from this roll so lets just stick with our day to day gates. now the other issue is if these gates are crewed, and pretty much the gate itself is indestructable you cant really force the ATC(or would it be STC: Space Traffic Control) to shut it down. i mean they dont care if their gate is camped so they will keep accepting inbound requests.
But if the Amarr Empire owns the gate, the Amarr Empire can make the crew turn it off. Plus gates aren't invincible in the backstory.
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Posted - 2006.12.17 00:18:00 -
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Originally by: Nomakai Delateriel
The EVE chronicle Old Man Star says that modern Gate building ships use inter-stellar warp drive (which supposedly is a fairly new invention).
Still, if they travel at the same speed as the regular warp drive you can imagine the time it will take considering that each star is at least 4-10 lightyears away from each other and 1 light year is 63240 AU.
Months, if not years.
Too long in a world where wars can be decided in hours or even minutes.
True, but if gates could be shut off wars would be much slower 'cos everyone would have to get to a system like that.
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