"We are told EvE ships have some sort of safety mechanism that fires all thrusters to avoid collision"

Have this been said?
I see it more like our shields force field bounce on each other, feels more like that since they never really physically touch.

Which, following that logic, makes it more of a 'flinch' mechanic when you're ship moves to avoid the collision.

Right...but why would a capital ship, knowing it would cream anything else out there that runs into it short of another capital, flinch? It's like the semi truck on the freeway. It dosn't get out of your way...you get out of it's way because when it comes right down to it, it will win.

Because it's a feature designed for the safety of BOTH ships?

For ships on the same side, I would agree.

For ships that are on opposing sides, especially in a conflict, set it to a checkbox so if your ship is bigger, you can use it to your advantage.
When a collision happens then, it could have it try to behave normally on whichever ship has less mass in a collision, and let the big ship scrape the bugs off it's grill after.

I would laugh if a freighter picked up kill mails that way.

*sets checkbox, undocks freighter in jita, kills about a dozen people*

bumping is needed and likely the only way to get you from the gate, station docking range or WH and to prevent you from pussying out of unpleasant situations.

Said idea posted HERE.


It really only applies to cap ships. So yes on a POS, WH or Station is the only places where your concern would apply but they are still a capital ship. They should be able to force their way through just about everything other than another capital. Its just a matter of mass. Ive seen some pretty rediculous videos of a Mach bumping out a Nyx at some rediculous speed from a POS. That just shouldn't be possible. Its a ******* supercap compared to a battleship!

Edit: Actually in thinking about it a capital that is sitting still and not moving at all...(engines off)...should be able to be bumped by perhaps a battleship but not to a very fast speed. It should take several bumps to move it even 1k even with a MWD on. You shouldnt be able to use a BS and make a capital move 400ms.

I propose that warp drives are hereby disabled.

FTL travel is completely unrealistic, this is backed up by some of the brightest minds in theoretical physics and years of experimental data. CCP please remove the warp drive from the game, and force players to fly from place to place at sub luminal velocities. On that note, "micro warp drives" are completely unrealistic too, perhaps some kind of Orion drive requiring years to approach light speed would be more appropriate.

That is all. Thank you.

I propose that warp drives are hereby disabled.

FTL travel is completely unrealistic, this is backed up by some of the brightest minds in theoretical physics and years of experimental data. CCP please remove the warp drive from the game, and force players to fly from place to place at sub luminal velocities. On that note, "micro warp drives" are completely unrealistic too, perhaps some kind of Orion drive requiring years to approach light speed would be more appropriate.

That is all. Thank you.

So you're saying that because caps are SOOOOOO much bigger, they should barely get the paint scratched by a battleship?

Makes sense...

Now you're saying that if the machariel and the chimera collided, the machariel should basically be destroyed, and the chimera should be fine.

except the macharial is 90% the size of the chimera

So if a sunfire hits a prius, the sunfire will just have a little scratched paint?
Got it.

and two words:
Jita undock

hahahaha you dont know how science works...
2 scenarios for FTL

1) you bend space to travel through a "mini-wormhole" kind of tunnel (supoprted ingame by the fact that you can pass through physical objects in warp such as planets)

2) relies on the fact that LIGHT DOES NOT MOVE AT A CONSTANT SPEED HURR DURR DURR, taking black holes and their spatial effects into consideratiosn,and OBSERVATIONS made on black holes located near stars has SHOWED that light cannot escape blackholes, and in fact CHANGES SPEED as it tries to escape/ is dragged into, the black hole.

so NUTS to your "FTL is unrealistic" nonsense, the only impossible in science is what you can't IMAGINE being possible, laws of physics are guidelines because we can only test them in environments we can reach (terrestial and robital locations).

SO BOOYA, brush up on your physics and scientific theory cause its like 5 years out of date.
EDIT: i meant to check spelling but figured proofreading was a waste.