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Maximillian Dragonard	Posted - 2007.11.04 23:04:00 - [31] Edited by: Maximillian Dragonard on 04/11/2007 23:03:51 Originally by: Stuart Price Originally by: Jenny Spitfire Space ships can burn in vacuum. Flammable gas leaking into space + explosions = fire. It would look nothing like it does though. More like a blowtorch spewing from the ship until the available oxygen was consumed. This, however, doesn't hold true if the materials burning generate their own oxygen.... ____________________ EWAR... love it or hate it.... learn to deal with it!
Arte Warspite Developments	Posted - 2007.11.04 23:05:00 - [32] Originally by: Barbens There were mines in eve for a while. This was before my time, however the bluprints still survive. When i first started you could still find mines on the market at NPC stations, if you viewed market details on mines you already had. BaRbEnS Was sure I still had some in my hangar further north but can't find them, wonder if they deleted them manually??? I could never bring myself to recycle them just-in-case... Originally by: Lisento Slaven They were never called unit. It is my belief that fools carried unit over from Reactor Control Unit and applied it to Power Diagnostic and Ballistic Control because they themselves referred to them as "units" where they meant to say "module." Pretty sure you're wrong so your belief is in error, so ner...
Jurgen Cartis Caldari Interstellar Corporation of Exploration	Posted - 2007.11.04 23:25:00 - [33] Originally by: Reticenti Edited by: Reticenti on 04/11/2007 22:50:33 Originally by: Jurgen Cartis Originally by: Andreya the 1400mm artilerries on tempests are pretty much shooting volkswagon beetles at you :P Volkwagon Beetles filled with C-4, more like. too bad C-4 is pretty much inert Unless of course you hooked up the battery to turn on right when it hit the target. [:kaboom] Yeah I know. You can shoot blocks of the stuff and it probably won't explode. Good thing too, considering what happens when you turn a Minmatar battleship (100s of Gs, stuff flying around, crew getting plastered into walls). But I figure the Minmatar are plenty advanced to make impact detonators for the stuff. -------------------- ICE Blueprint Sales FIRST!! -Yipsilanti Pfft. Never such a thing as a "last chance". ;) -Rauth
Reticenti The Antilles Legion Quantum Star Alliance	Posted - 2007.11.04 23:28:00 - [34] Originally by: Jurgen Cartis Originally by: Reticenti Edited by: Reticenti on 04/11/2007 22:50:33 Originally by: Jurgen Cartis Originally by: Andreya the 1400mm artilerries on tempests are pretty much shooting volkswagon beetles at you :P Volkwagon Beetles filled with C-4, more like. too bad C-4 is pretty much inert Unless of course you hooked up the battery to turn on right when it hit the target. [:kaboom] Yeah I know. You can shoot blocks of the stuff and it probably won't explode. Good thing too, considering what happens when you turn a Minmatar battleship (100s of Gs, stuff flying around, crew getting plastered into walls). But I figure the Minmatar are plenty advanced to make impact detonators for the stuff. just hire Macgyver, he seems to do pretty well with stuff similar to what the Minmatar would give him. (eg gum, duct tape, paper clip, etc)
6Bagheera9 Slacker Industries Exuro Mortis	Posted - 2007.11.04 23:35:00 - [35] Originally by: Kazuo Ishiguro Originally by: Imperator Jora'h Originally by: Andreya Originally by: Snake Doctor 12. The actual output explosion of a 175mm antimatter round would be more than the amount of destructive power needed to tear Earth in half. im sooooo asking my GF for one of these for christmas this year It's potent stuff. A gram of antimatter is enough to launch 1,000 space shuttles into orbit (so a gram could have orbited every space mission so far and still have plenty left over). Of course, this depends on how much antimatter each round contains, and how efficiently you can detonate it. If some of the antimatter gets thrown into space, it'll just persist until it meets some actual matter. Of course, the same energy density applies to normal matter as well if you have a means of converting it to energy. Most of the energy from proton/anti-proton annihilation is released as neutrinos, which interact VERY weakly with most other forms of matter and are generally harmless.
Mr Friendly That it Should Come to This Derek Knows Us	Posted - 2007.11.04 23:56:00 - [36] Originally by: Arte Originally by: Barbens There were mines in eve for a while. This was before my time, however the bluprints still survive. When i first started you could still find mines on the market at NPC stations, if you viewed market details on mines you already had. BaRbEnS Was sure I still had some in my hangar further north but can't find them, wonder if they deleted them manually??? I could never bring myself to recycle them just-in-case... Originally by: Lisento Slaven They were never called unit. It is my belief that fools carried unit over from Reactor Control Unit and applied it to Power Diagnostic and Ballistic Control because they themselves referred to them as "units" where they meant to say "module." Pretty sure you're wrong so your belief is in error, so ner... Mines were deleted by CCP (though the launchers are still floating around iirc... or was it the other way 'round??? anyways, no mines in space for us). I miss my snowballs...bloody ccp melted them on me... 'damn you CCP damn you to hell!!!' shakes fist As for the incorrect acronyms, it took a while for me to learn what was actually being referred to... I don't think I could go back to the correct names by now... __________________________________________________ Originally by: Rells This place is sewer. Full of people that use internet anonymity to do things that would earn them two knocked out teeth in real life.
Ho HsienKo	Posted - 2007.11.05 00:01:00 - [37] Edited by: Ho HsienKo on 05/11/2007 00:05:54 The reason the superhighways were disassembled was because if you traveled from one end of the galaxy to the other on them you were getting close to the speed of light and time was slowing down for you... this reduced the wear and tear on clones and they were needing less frequent replacement. Through back room dealings and payoffs the companies making Isk from clones and their upkeep had the superhighways taken down to decrease clone life expectancy. and Edit: pitty the poor fool still in mid warp between the two farthest points who has spent 3 years attempting to finish Amarr Frig training to level 2
Dubious Drewski	Posted - 2007.11.05 00:01:00 - [38] Originally by: Sleepkevert Volkwagon Beetles filled with C-4, more like. Quote: <Cro_Magnus> what I don't get is why people bother with "mm" as a caliber after 1000... I mean... 1400mm, why not call it "Mobile car launcher" and have done with it? <Cro_Magnus> 1400mm shells basically equate to the ship firing volksvagens at high speed <Cro_Magnus> knowing minmatar that's probably what they are firing too <Wrangler> except they are projectiles, not cars, and explosive <Cro_Magnus> car @ several thousand meters per second = projectile <Cro_Magnus> car loaded with fuel impacting ship = explosive <Cro_Magnus> your point? <Fenria> GAAAAH Captain... there is a beetle heading our way at 18kps <Wrangler> OMG! We're being attacked by volkswagens!"! <Fenria> DAMN THOSE GERMANS * Wrangler fires counter measure trabants Source: omgrawr.net which is an awesome site for EVE related quotes btw Heyyy, I was part of that conversation. That was in the help chat, if I remember correctly. Help chat = general discussion, usuallyGood times. Originally by: Slayton Ford a Drake is normally primaried last And that's why I love that homely boat!
Acoco Osiris Gallente Sublime.	Posted - 2007.11.05 00:04:00 - [39] The quad 3,400mm siege artillery guns should really shoot 4 shells roughly 100 m^3 each in size... yet EMP XL takes up 0.25 m^3. My calculations are a bit arbitrary, they assume that shells are cylinders, length 3x diameter (and I assume 3,400mm means diameter). (1.7m)^2 * 3.14 * 10 ------------------------------ One more soldier off to war... And one Velator in my hangars.
Stitcher Caldari legion of qui Freelancer Alliance	Posted - 2007.11.05 00:17:00 - [40] Originally by: Shakuul In EVE, ships have a maximum speed because space is in fact filled with invisible water. Discounting for the moment the fact that water is transparent anyway.... I think there was some minor nugget of backstory somewhere that states that the warp drive exerts a drag effect, relative to the nearest major gravity well. Hence, all ships require constant thrust and have a maximum speed because their warp engines are constantly trying to drag them to a dead stop - a downside that is kind of the trade-off for being able to fly faster than light. Originally by: Admiral Annihilation - Every time you turn your battleship thousands of people get squished against the wall/floor with a G-force between 100 and 300 g's. Or rather, they would if the ships weren't fitted with inertial compensation systems. Otherwise, warping would be impossible. - The game is not the problem. The problem is that you are not adapting to the game.
Draydin Amarr	Posted - 2007.11.05 00:53:00 - [41] So, if ships are slowed down by thier Warp drives, then why do missles have a maximum velocity? You could suppose that missles are givin an intial velocity by the launcher, and have no ability to accelerate on thier own. But they wouldnt be able to change directions if thats the case. More importantly, why do the stations never orbit? Everytime I go into a station, its in the same position. Draydin > So, I'm going to fit my ship with nothing but lasers, cap rechargers, and heat sinks. Pillazo > Thats crazy! Draydin > Crazy like an amarr! Pillazo > amarr arent crazy... Drayin > O
YouWant MeBanned	Posted - 2007.11.05 01:39:00 - [42] Old Man Star is named after the founder of Lai Dai :)
SoftRevolution	Posted - 2007.11.05 01:59:00 - [43] Edited by: SoftRevolution on 05/11/2007 02:04:31 ^^^ I thought that was the founder of Creodrone? Originally by: Sheriff Jones Edited by: Sheriff Jones on 04/11/2007 14:41:29 Just thought i'd start a "Useless facts" thread about EVE, be it about names, things, situations, modules, battles, whatnot(an eggnog variant) and all in between. I'll start with a little snippet: Caracal is a desert living predator of the cat family, akin in looks to the Lynx. It is, rightfully, named Desert Lynx. Other names are Persian Lynx or African Lynx. Now how that fits a missile launching, shield tanking cruiser(cough...silly me), who knows The Caracal is a renowned catcher of birds so it sort of fits into the Caldari naming scheme (generally birds) - especially if you think of how effective it as an anti-frigate platform. The Gallente ships tend to be named after gods.
Imperator Jora'h	Posted - 2007.11.05 02:10:00 - [44] Originally by: Draydin More importantly, why do the stations never orbit? Everytime I go into a station, its in the same position. They're in a geosynchronous orbit?
Gorthauran Amarr Throne of Tragedy	Posted - 2007.11.05 02:13:00 - [45] CCP are actually of Jovian decent and not Icelandic like people are lead to believe.
Karen Serasia	Posted - 2007.11.05 02:17:00 - [46] Performing sexual acts with your clone is illegal in most areas of space however there is known to be several clubs in Gallente space that are reported to house such activities.
Qanael	Posted - 2007.11.05 03:35:00 - [47] Originally by: SoftRevolution Edited by: SoftRevolution on 05/11/2007 02:04:31 ^^^ I thought that was the founder of Creodrone? Originally by: Sheriff Jones Edited by: Sheriff Jones on 04/11/2007 14:41:29 Just thought i'd start a "Useless facts" thread about EVE, be it about names, things, situations, modules, battles, whatnot(an eggnog variant) and all in between. I'll start with a little snippet: Caracal is a desert living predator of the cat family, akin in looks to the Lynx. It is, rightfully, named Desert Lynx. Other names are Persian Lynx or African Lynx. Now how that fits a missile launching, shield tanking cruiser(cough...silly me), who knows The Caracal is a renowned catcher of birds so it sort of fits into the Caldari naming scheme (generally birds) - especially if you think of how effective it as an anti-frigate platform. The Gallente ships tend to be named after gods. That's why I name all my Caracals Madcat with a Roman numeral. I think I'm in Madcat XIX, now.
Celestra Doxaila Enosis	Posted - 2007.11.05 03:49:00 - [48] Originally by: SoftRevolution The Gallente ships tend to be named after gods. I looked up some of the names of ships. In Greek Mythology, Thanatos is the child of Erebus and Nyx. Erebus and Nyx are also brother and sister.
Ekscalybur Caldari Templar Services Inc.	Posted - 2007.11.05 04:27:00 - [49] Originally by: Shakuul In EVE, ships have a maximum speed because space is in fact filled with invisible water. Why do people keep saying this as if its lunacy? Like being in a vacuum somehow grants an object the ability to travel at speeds greater than the amount of thrust its engines have. Ship in Eve space have a maximum speed, just like ships in real life do. The only advantage being in a vacuum gives is greater acceleration.
Verx Interis Amarr Viziam	Posted - 2007.11.05 04:38:00 - [50] Originally by: Ekscalybur Originally by: Shakuul In EVE, ships have a maximum speed because space is in fact filled with invisible water. Why do people keep saying this as if its lunacy? Like being in a vacuum somehow grants an object the ability to travel at speeds greater than the amount of thrust its engines have. Ship in Eve space have a maximum speed, just like ships in real life do. The only advantage being in a vacuum gives is greater acceleration. In space, if you accelerate and then stop without braking, you keep going at that speed. thus in space, you can go as fast as you want by continuously accelerating. -----sig-starts-here------ I survived Armageddon Day. I'm just too lazy to put a picture of a nuke in here.
Buyerr	Posted - 2007.11.05 04:39:00 - [51] Originally by: Goshinko Most probably already know this, but every time you fire a heavy missile, you're firing the equivalent of a modern day nuclear missile? ACs are basically rapid-fire modern-day tank cannons. The smallest frigates are around the size of a Boeing 747 commercial airliner. yer and the smallest nuclear in our days will clean a whole city from the map, the bigger once will clear a whole country (in small medium seized countries that is). so ehh no your not.. since the seize of the ship and the dmg that is given to it when hit (shield can always be said with blablabla, but armor and the pod and personal inside would be toast from the blast and/or the radiation)
Paulo Damarr	Posted - 2007.11.05 04:43:00 - [52] Regarding interesting ship names did you know a Ferox is Scottish sub species of trout that due to a lack of normal nutrients is predatory and cannibalistic and eats other fish and grows several times the normal size of trout. Originally by: MOTOK0 A bit like the second coming of jesus only with screaming and tears and whine threads.
Verx Interis Amarr Viziam	Posted - 2007.11.05 04:49:00 - [53] Originally by: Paulo Damarr Regarding interesting ship names did you know a Ferox is Scottish sub species of trout that due to a lack of normal nutrients is predatory and cannibalistic and eats other fish and grows several times the normal size of trout. I always thought it was a dung beetle.... -----sig-starts-here------ I survived Armageddon Day. I'm just too lazy to put a picture of a nuke in here.
Barbens	Posted - 2007.11.05 05:18:00 - [54] Originally by: Arte Originally by: Barbens There were mines in eve for a while. This was before my time, however the bluprints still survive. When i first started you could still find mines on the market at NPC stations, if you viewed market details on mines you already had. BaRbEnS Was sure I still had some in my hangar further north but can't find them, wonder if they deleted them manually??? I could never bring myself to recycle them just-in-case... Originally by: Lisento Slaven They were never called unit. It is my belief that fools carried unit over from Reactor Control Unit and applied it to Power Diagnostic and Ballistic Control because they themselves referred to them as "units" where they meant to say "module." Pretty sure you're wrong so your belief is in error, so ner... Still have my Python BPO Safe and Sound :) BaRbEnS
Danzig256k Caldari Mortal Devastating Kin	Posted - 2007.11.05 07:51:00 - [55] Originally by: Fswd And when you launch cruise missiles, you are firing frigate size things and still can't pop a frig with them, i always thought that was messed up, what do ya think would happen if ya fired a torpedo at a rowboat, ya get a bunch of driftwood...
Xcom Gallente Genco Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.11.05 07:52:00 - [56] In reality the best way to blow up an opponent ship is to ram it with what can be explained as warp speed. But somehow no one have figgued it out yet. 1 kamikaze shuttle can level a titan due to it's massive kinetic energy when it hits the target. This knolage is secretly guarded by the Jovians.
F'nog Amarr Celestial Horizon Corp. Valainaloce	Posted - 2007.11.05 08:05:00 - [57] Originally by: Danzig256k Originally by: Fswd And when you launch cruise missiles, you are firing frigate size things and still can't pop a frig with them, i always thought that was messed up, what do ya think would happen if ya fired a torpedo at a rowboat, ya get a bunch of driftwood... Or you can look at it the other way: would you use a rolled-up newspaper or a sledgehammer to kill a fly? Originally by: Karen Serasia Because some idiot decided to sell an internet connection to me and didn't think of the consequences.
Jason Marshall Wise Guys Exquisite Malevolence	Posted - 2007.11.05 08:13:00 - [58] Duct tape, is in fact NOT used to build Minmatarian ships. It is however used in the routine maintenance of these ships. Tacky Lensflares in sigs ftw
Wild Rho Amarr GoonFleet	Posted - 2007.11.05 08:16:00 - [59] Edited by: Wild Rho on 05/11/2007 08:16:03 Most women you meet in Eve are really men. EDIT: Hairy ones
Kazuo Ishiguro House of Marbles Zzz	Posted - 2007.11.05 08:24:00 - [60] As well as most of the Caldari ships in the game, two Minmatar ships are named after birds: Huginn & Muninn, Odin's ravens. My research services Spreadsheets: Top speed calculation - Halo Implant stats

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