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Posted - 2011.12.26 19:40:00 -
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Avensys wrote:by far the most popular myth in EVE seems to be "passive align".
as most freighter pilots know model orientation does not effect your ability to warp (plug in nomads to make this really obvious).
the common explanation is "a (velocity) vector of length 0 has no direction, stupid"
However, if you bring a ship to a full stop and then accelerate again (by clicking on the arrow right of the speed dial) it continues into the direction the model is aligned to - so ship orientation seems to be stored somewhere independently of ship velocity.
So even if "passive align" does not exist (and it doesn't), the stock explanation for why it doesn't exist appears to be off.
You all got it wrong.
As a dev said, sometime last year, there is no zero speed.
You are never ever "not moving", even if the speedo'meter shows zero,
it's actually still 0.000001 msec.
That's why you have a direction when you accelerate.
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Posted - 2011.12.26 21:46:00 -
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RubyPorto wrote:And it's possible that stopping your ship doesn't set your vector to 0, I don't know, but I've left ships idling in small POSes long enough that they would have idled right out of the shields if they had any vector (assuming Eve doesn't keep track of speed to an absurdly high number of significant figures). I would guess that ships landing from a jump (gate or otherwise) would have a 0 vector.
See my post above.
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Posted - 2011.12.26 21:47:00 -
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Fist1 wrote:Can you really slow boat it to Jove space without using jump gates.
Somebody did that already and although he was there,
he would have needed a session change to actually be there.
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Posted - 2011.12.26 21:59:00 -
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Tippia wrote:GǪoh, and let's not forget the downright silly amounts of chicken entrails sortilege some people are willing to engage in in futile attempts of at influencing the random number generator in the way it picks missions/spawns/drops/unlocks/whathaveyou.
You mean stuff like ...
"Hey when i center the camera exactly to the enemy ship, i only get wrecking hits !!!!!!"
?
Although i have to say that i have really tested this
and for some odd reason i got several wrecking shots ...
... it didn't work a second time. lol
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