Originally by: Trovax

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All i wanted to say was, a shuttle has the potential of bumping a larger ship!!

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Originally by: Trovax

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HOLY C**P!!

Seems iv'e triggered a series of intense maths calculations.

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Originally by: Ares Lightfeather

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Edited by: Ares Lightfeather on 18/06/2007 15:07:31
Just make 2 balls of different mass run into each other (a soccer ball and a basket ball, for example, or 2 marbles, or whatever). That'd be the most accurate explanation of what should happen when 2 ships hit each other.

Furthermore, anyone can do it. Space physics made easy. No need for complicated and potentially wrong calculation

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Originally by: Grunanca

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Originally by: Spoilz

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Edited by: Spoilz on 18/06/2007 08:10:14


First, all ships got shields, and as these dont exist in real, we got no idea if 2 sheilds bumping into each other will give some kind of burst that sends both ships in the opposite direction... Remeber you are weightless in space, so even a battleship aint that hard to move.

Second, I agree with you.. Bumping is lame and we should either have it made into the smallest ship is bumped or add collision damage, of course calculated from speed and size of ship.

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Weightless yes... Even weightless you have mass and the more mass you have the more energy it takes to move you. So moving a battleship is extremely hard to do, hence the massive engines and AB needed to move and increase its velocity.

Bumping as it is now is bad.. I believe everyone agrees with you on that but in order to put something in place you would need a huge rewrite and then balance it.

For instance when pushed out of a station from undocking people bunch up and it turns into a bumper carfest, if you add collison damage here everyone one would get the crap smashed out of their ships. Granted they could exempt stations from damage ect.

So we are left with gates and open space right? Factor in asteroids belts.. people would bang up their ships there to and dont forget all of those cargo containers.

When warping to a stargate how many times have you come out of warp and hit the gate? Me.. alot... but if you are close to the gate you can still jump even while the ship is twisting and turning.

Im sure they want to do something about damage ect with bumping but the fact is that would take alot of time.. not a few weeks or a few months, a long time. Why, because they would have to factor in every ship for mass and velocity then take a base damage and minus shields, armor and structure ect. Also what is to stop players from taking say a titan and just driving it through a battle and crushing all the ships smaller than it? At that point weapons are useless.

Originally by: Clone 3681

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one question, you are moving 5000km/s in space and u turn off engine, how fast u will go?

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i know 2+2=5

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Originally by: Barimen

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Bumping is your grief with EVE physics?

There is a lot of things with the physics and realism of this game that are not "science", bumping is very low on that list.

How about:

When you turn your engines off, you slow down!

As someone well versed in in the world of physics that makes me cringe a bit.

But, this is a game and a masive one at that, I suggest we just learn to live with what it offers? ;)

You should try freespace, it has real physics, fun in a way but control demands a LOT of the player, and that is just not the way of MMO's.

Now the use interface is another story, it is very realistic, if we were living in the 1990's, I much rather they made that up to par with todays science than the physics engine.

Oh, and a ceptor going 20km/s doing a 180 would liquidize the pilot.. ;)

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Originally by: Dromidas Shadowmoon

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i know 2+2=5

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For very large values of 2 :P

But seriously.. a rail gun propels a very very small piece of material at near light speed and does immense damage to things.
Its not surprising a small ship can reach a speed great enough to push a huge ship a little ways.

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