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Snake Doctor MacroIntel United Corporations Against Macros	Posted - 2007.11.05 22:21:00 - [121] There was a time you could scan a stargate and find out what was on the other side... Join Macrointel!
Snake Doctor MacroIntel United Corporations Against Macros	Posted - 2007.11.05 22:22:00 - [122] Character creation was at one point a very smooth, soft blue with pictures of babies floating around in the background. Join Macrointel!
Xonkra Gallente	Posted - 2007.11.05 22:27:00 - [123] in fact , the cake wasn't a lie Originally by: Illyria Ambri No matter how you want to say it.. it always sounds like frog clearing throat "Ve zurrendur, dunt schuut"
Hellspawn01 Amarr Shadow Rebellion	Posted - 2007.11.05 22:30:00 - [124] All pod pilots have a weight of 100kg Corpses used to stop battleships A long time ago you could hide behind anything like stations or other ships from missile ships cuz missiles hit everything in their flightpath and not just the target There are bushes in space where you can do your thing while waiting for the bang The thorax was build after an organ (couldnt resist but its true) Implants have a size of 1m¦ The Ship modification section in the eve database has the describtion which fits only for minmatar ships Living freight has a weight from 30kg (slaver hound) up to 1000kg (marines) Criminal Dog Tags weight 1kg Sometimes in cans things appear out of nowhere (complexes) Concord kills a BS in some seconds but cant kill frig sized rats that shoot at bypassing ships at gates Nobody scanned ice roids before (nobody was that bored I guess) Ship lovers click here
Mr Ignitious Gallente Kingpins	Posted - 2007.11.06 02:10:00 - [125] Originally by: Ryu Nagatomi Originally by: Nomakai Delateriel Am I the only one that thinks that the name of the "Megathron" is derived from the Greek "Mega" ("Great") and "Thr=nos" ("throne")? Which means that "megathron" actually means "Great throne". Yes. I point you to this post somewhere last year where some guy had all Gallente ships basically labeled: Click me now, you know you want to. Also, there's a reference here for Megaron Then again, someone else has Megatron translated and defined as Quote: The name "Megatron" is shortened from "Mega-Therion" which is greek for Beelzebub wooo i'm the first to point it out, but alot of the gallente ships are gods of love and fertility...i feel like such a faerie in my ishtar =( but then i realize its A DEATH FAERIE!! but i still wanna know why gallente are so flamboyant
Phantom Slave Amarr Mozzaki United	Posted - 2007.11.06 03:25:00 - [126] Not much to add, except maybe the maximum velocity on ships is limited by the computer systems to give the ship more control over it's orbit range? A ship doing 100 km/s would be a pain in the ass to orbit another ship at close distances. And the reason that ships orbiting other ships have problems with tracking, maybe it's because the other ship is moving too, hence the problem with tracking as your ship has to constantly shift toward and away from the other ship? ____________________ Changes on Sisi are NOT the end of the world. Wait until Rev III/Trinity is released before drawing conclusions.
Kyra Felann Gallente Red Eye .Inc.	Posted - 2007.11.06 03:27:00 - [127] Originally by: Verone Edited by: Verone on 04/11/2007 14:33:23 For all those people who say bumping is an unintended game mechanic : The Armageddon class battleship was solely designed to be used as a battering ram, hence it's shape. It's massive front armor plating and it's overall heaviness at it's front end, coupled with high structural integrity was intented to be used to slam into Republic vessels and breach their hulls while firing on them. First of all, ramming is not the same as bumping. Ramming is done to do massive damage to a ship and does not exist in Eve. Bumping does no damage, but keeps ships from escaping by making it change course against its will. Second, "it's" means "it is". "Its" means "belonging to it".
Kyra Felann Gallente Red Eye .Inc.	Posted - 2007.11.06 03:37:00 - [128] Originally by: Xcom 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. Except when you warp, you go through things, like, ya know, planets. Must be some effect of the warp bubble/tunnel whatever.
Phantom Slave Amarr Mozzaki United	Posted - 2007.11.06 03:43:00 - [129] Originally by: Kyra Felann Except when you warp, you go through things, like, ya know, planets. Must be some effect of the warp bubble/tunnel whatever. I believe when warping a wormhole is created. A wormhole is basically 2 points in space that are 'moved' together to travel between them. Take a piece of paper and put a dot on each end of the paper. One of them is Point A, the other is Point B. A wormhole simply takes point A and point B and pushes them together, just like folding the paper and touching the dots. You don't actually travel the full distance, you simply 'jump' to the other side. The effect from warping is probably just what you see as you go through one side and out the other, although technically it would be like stepping through a doorway. I'm probably wrong, so please correct me if I am. ____________________ Changes on Sisi are NOT the end of the world. Wait until Rev III/Trinity is released before drawing conclusions.
Sharupak Minmatar Knights Of the Black Sun Rule of Three	Posted - 2007.11.06 03:44:00 - [130] Edited by: Sharupak on 06/11/2007 03:44:03 Actually, with all the little know fact geniouses all in one thread, I had a question. I used to be able to see my drones... then I could not....lately I have again. I though it was because I changed my screen resolution in eve. But now that I can see them again...whats the dealio? You know when I select look at. _______________________________________________ RuntimeError: ChainEvent is blocking by design, but you're block trapped. You have'll have to find some alternative means to do Your Thing, dude.
Kyra Felann Gallente Red Eye .Inc.	Posted - 2007.11.06 03:50:00 - [131] Originally by: Phantom Slave Originally by: Kyra Felann Except when you warp, you go through things, like, ya know, planets. Must be some effect of the warp bubble/tunnel whatever. I believe when warping a wormhole is created. A wormhole is basically 2 points in space that are 'moved' together to travel between them. Take a piece of paper and put a dot on each end of the paper. One of them is Point A, the other is Point B. A wormhole simply takes point A and point B and pushes them together, just like folding the paper and touching the dots. You don't actually travel the full distance, you simply 'jump' to the other side. The effect from warping is probably just what you see as you go through one side and out the other, although technically it would be like stepping through a doorway. I'm probably wrong, so please correct me if I am. Jumping is done through artificial wormholes, which explains why it's instant. This is backed up in official Eve sources. I dunno about warping, though, since it's done at a certain speed and takes time to get where you're going.
Adam Weishaupt Minmatar Pyrrhus Sicarii The Church.	Posted - 2007.11.06 06:48:00 - [132] Originally by: Ovno ConSyquence As an example of why ships in eve are too slow, the voyager one probe is currently doing 17km/s and thats with todays technologies... It's also been accelerating using planetary bodies for years and doesn't have to stop to execute complex maneuvers. However, you're right that it's purely an artifact of game balance that our ships reach their maximum velocities so fast. Try landing a carrier inside a moon, and you'll see what EVE's, ah, "gravity", will do. I recall we had a carrier land on grid at the center of the moon, and it was thrown out of the moon at...well, it was a Vagabond pilot's wet dream.
Ma Raia'l Amarr PIE Inc.	Posted - 2007.11.06 07:28:00 - [133] The Amarr race is named after the ancient Egyptian city Amarna. Here's the story behind Amarna: Around 1350 BC a pharaoh by the name of Amenhotep IV, whom later renamed himself Akhenaten, ascended to power. During his reign he attempted to convert Egypt's population to his chosen, and notably monotheistic, religion. The single god under this religion was known as Aten, and was represented by a sun disk. Akhenaten's reforms are the first case of monotheism in recorded history. During his reign Akhenaten establish the new Egyptian capital in the city of Amarna, where many temples dedicated to Aten were built. So there you have it Amarr = Amarna, the city in which the first temples dedicated to a monotheistic deity were constructed.
Alpine 69 Slacker Industries Exuro Mortis	Posted - 2007.11.06 08:22:00 - [134] Originally by: NATMav There is a system in Fountain with a natural warp disruption field on the gate. Not true, it does however prevent you from using your mwd. (natural phenomena are disrupting this module's operation.) Sweet love for the ones that mod my sig <3 From her? You're on. -Rauth
Arana Tellen Gallente The Blackguard Wolves Knights Of the Southerncross	Posted - 2007.11.06 08:45:00 - [135] 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] After a certain speed I doubt it matters much TBH. --------------------------------- Thorax type R&R. (Ribbed and R rated)
Last Wolf Templars of Space	Posted - 2007.11.08 03:00:00 - [136] More useless facts please.
Acoco Osiris Gallente Sublime.	Posted - 2007.11.08 03:07:00 - [137] Pod pilots are the elite of New Eden, with incredible minds which can handle the pod environment, analyze complex tactical situations in the blink of an eye, vastly supplement their ships' capabilities by providing extra computation powers... And yet some of them fly honor-tanked dreadnoughts into gatecamps. ------------------------------ One more soldier off to war... And one Velator in my hangars.
Valan Genco Interstellar Alcohol Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.11.16 17:11:00 - [138] A statement regarding the hairyness of mem pretending they're women on EVE from a 'Wild' member of Goonfleet and this thread is complete. /start sig I love old characters that post 'I've beeen playing the game four years' when I know their account has been sold on. /end sig
SiJira	Posted - 2007.11.18 16:40:00 - [139] Originally by: Acoco Osiris Pod pilots are the elite of New Eden, with incredible minds which can handle the pod environment, analyze complex tactical situations in the blink of an eye, vastly supplement their ships' capabilities by providing extra computation powers... And yet some of them fly honor-tanked dreadnoughts into gatecamps. or go mining ____ __ ________ _sig below_ devs and gms cant modify my sig if they tried! _lies above_ CCP Morpheus was here Morpheus Fails. You need colors!! -Kaemonn [yellow]Kaem
Red Crown Kudzu Collective	Posted - 2007.11.18 17:09:00 - [140] Edited by: Red Crown on 18/11/2007 17:09:26 Carriers are flying physical impossibilities. Take the Chimera for example. All carriers are roughly the size of a battleship. The Hyperion is the closest in shape though. The Chimera has ten times the mass as the Hyperion does, yet is the same size to the eye, and until only recently was actually smaller. The Chimera also has ten times the volume of a Hyperion. So in other words, the Chimera has 10 times the internal volume it can physically have, and even though it is impossibly large on the inside, it is also impossibly dense. Its "outer shell" would have to be as dense as a Neutron star. In theory, Railgun shells, Projectiles, and Missiles should have no damage fall off with range, and missiles should get faster as they go. They should also have no maximum range. Gallente aren't just overpowered, they in theory have the most powerful weapons of any race. The force released by a 1000MM Antimatter shell would be enough to snap a Titan in two. The force of a 3500MM shell impact would be enough to liquify steel.
Goumindong Amarr Merch Industrial GoonSwarm	Posted - 2007.11.18 17:55:00 - [141] The propellant used in projectile weapons is actually fissile material. Yes, that means that the projectiles are propelled by nuclear weapons.
Abyssal Angel Caldari Solar Wind STELLAR LEGION	Posted - 2007.11.18 19:01:00 - [142] It is in fact impossible to see through Clear Ice. The Ferox is a close relative of the dragoon of Starwars, at least it feels that way to me :O) FixedYay! have a cookie - Deckard Originally by: CCP PrismX My name is Prism X and I support this message.
Shar'Tuk TheHated	Posted - 2007.11.18 19:59:00 - [143] Originally by: Sharupak Edited by: Sharupak on 06/11/2007 03:44:03 Actually, with all the little know fact geniouses all in one thread, I had a question. I used to be able to see my drones... then I could not....lately I have again. I though it was because I changed my screen resolution in eve. But now that I can see them again...whats the dealio? You know when I select look at. They broke it but fixed it not that long ago with the camera changes. DRINK RUM It fights scurvy & boosts morale! THE BEATINGS WILL CONTINUE UNTIL MORALE IMPROVES!
Tortun Nahme Minmatar Heimatar Services Conglomerate	Posted - 2007.11.18 20:03:00 - [144] lITTLE KNOWN USELESS FACT: Tarminic has made a small fortune posting on the forums Originally by: Cecil Montague They should change that warning on entering low sec to: "Go read Crime and Punishment for a few days then come back."
Spoon Thumb Paladin Imperium	Posted - 2007.11.18 20:51:00 - [145] There is 1 named system in Providence: Shintaht Unefsih is clearly a typo, and should read (and is often mistakenly called) unefish Rilera system in Khanid is apparently named in reference to something in a HP Lovecraft novel. Still trying to confirm this Khaldari khanidpublic : RP channel for supporters of the Kingdom PLDN Recruiting

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