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Stitcher
Caldari
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.27 13:05:00 -
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 Originally by: Kassidus
Ok so ive never gone in with EVE's back story of "The Pod" and what i mean by that is when im flying any ship I always look to see where the bridge is and i envision people waling around on it and a captain sitting in his captains chair or staring out into space.
I hate the pod it lame infact its one of the lamest ideas ever, dont get me wrong its very creative, but the pod should be just that A "Escape pod" and I think EVE back story needs to be rewritten if the bible can do it every couple years to keep up with the times, so can CCP.
DOwn with the pod!
Go play something else.
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Stitcher
Caldari
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.27 13:26:00 -
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Edited by: Stitcher on 27/07/2007 13:27:17
Originally by: Ms Peddlington
Personally, I think the idea of having crews on pod piloted ships is stupid. There is nothing in the backstory that supports it
O RLY?
http://www.eve-online.com/background/potw/14-07-05.asp
http://www.eve-online.com/races/forsakenruins/?pp=background,stories
Now, are you quite sure that nothing in the backstory supports the idea of there being crew aboard these ships?
Oh, and read my post above as to WHY a ship would need crew.
FFS.
by the way, the argument that all the crew would be killed every time a ship explodes kind of ignores the possibility of there being a crew eject mechanism - life boats, in other words.
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Stitcher
Caldari
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.27 13:37:00 -
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Edited by: Stitcher on 27/07/2007 13:37:52
Originally by: Banana Torres
Well, us clever Gallente invented droons to do some of the fighting for us. Now, I am pretty sure that the droon designers would be more than capable of inventing an auxiliary fusion core component fiddler droon too.
Then you're getting into the realm of whether or not an AI can ever be as flexible or as intelligent as a person. I personally believe that a series of pre-programmed algorithms will never be able to perform as well as a trained human with an intimate understanding of the way the technology works and the ability to think laterally.
Even if drones could someday be that intelligent, they certainly aren't at this point in EVE history - just look at the way combat drones behave.
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But you are correct, the back story makes it quite clear there are humans on board. All, sweaty with big rippling muscles, I hope.
Personally, I'm more into lithe, greased-up engineer girls in damp, oil-stained white tank-tops, but y'know...
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Stitcher
Caldari
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.27 14:37:00 -
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Originally by: Some Caldari
I just imagine it that I'm sitting in the captain's chair looking awesome until I reach structure then I make a mad dash to the pod. That and the pods aren't little jello filled eggs just really small ships with regular controls. Although they aren't that small really the shuttle is meant to be about the same size as a 747 isn't it?.
Not quite. The Rifter, on the other hand, is.
http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y31/SwitchbladeUK/747overlaycopy.jpg
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Stitcher
Caldari
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.27 14:46:00 -
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Edited by: Stitcher on 27/07/2007 14:51:25
Originally by: Some Caldari
Edited by: Some Caldari on 27/07/2007 14:39:35
Edit: hmm wonder how big my cara is then.
About three hundred meters long. That's the better part of a sixth of a mile.
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Stitcher
Caldari
legion of qui
Freelancer Alliance
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Posted - 2007.07.27 15:39:00 -
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Originally by: Borasao
But you *do* believe in flying around in faster-than-light ships, guns that shoot faster than light even when they're shooting light (250km range instantaneous impacts even with *lasers*), and the host of other sci-fi stuff in the game?
To be fair, the speed of light in vacuum is so incredibly fast that the latency involved in a 250Km shot is probably below the threshold of human sensitivity....
Plus, you know, we have Tachyon beam weapons - and a tachyon is a particle that travels faster than the speed of light.
Everything else, of course, is utter bunkum.
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