Originally by: Lyria Skydancer

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-Why do EM, EXP, KIN damage exist? They are all in the end a form of thermal damage on material. (kin and thermal actually pretty much same thing though, heat = atoms moving faster, EM heats stuff = atoms moving faster = stuff gets hot)

Actually, this doesn't refer to different types of energies, but rather different methods of dealing damage. For example, consider today's two methods of piercing armor. The first method is to use a sabot round to attempt to pierce the armor (kinetic round). The second method is to use a chemical reaction to burn a hole through the armor (thermal method). EM damage probably has something more to do with using light to disrupt shield generation and cause the shield generators to overload and thus damage armor/structure. Explosive would probably involve using a small amount of kinetic energy to embed an explosive inside the armor to try to force it apart.

-Why does a ship orbiting an immobile target get transversal penalty on its guns? (eve programmers prolly too lazy to program the physics of this game accurately)

This is probably because they have to compute physics server side to prevent hacking, and it would be next to impossible to have TQ computer realistic physics like that for 30,000 people at once 20 times a second

-What do gyrostabilizers have to do with boosted rate of fire and damage? Shouldnt this give better accurace only?
They probably also help the reloading mechanism to reload faster, or stops the turret from moving around so much after firing, thus allowing it to reload the next round faster

-Why do heatsinks give more damage on lasers ontop of the rate of fire boost?
Allows heat build up to dissapate quicker in the laser turret. This means that the laser turret can fire a stronger beam without overheating, and it can cooldown faster in preperation for the next shot

-Why do lasers have range or falloff? Lasers is EM wave, if ship can lock target lasers should reach it.
It is almost surely impossible to build a "perfect" laser. Contrary to popular belief, lasers do not shoot a perfectly straight ray of congruent light. There is a small amount of error, and over time/distance the laser will disperse

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