Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports

Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by stcredzero on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:21PM (#13143095)

While the majority of EVE players are content to run missions or smash spaceships together for fun and profit

When I was playing Eve Online, ships didn't have collisions with anything but force field bubbles. (Planets were nothing but really huge force field bubbles. (Tower) You could still skillfully terminate a warp to get to the center of one, however. I never figured out how to exploit that.)

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Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by splesjaz on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:54PM (#13143279)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N8K18S_RNEQ

This video shows how grid bombing was done, sadly i don't play EVE anymore it's a great game lots of different Players/groups

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Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by stcredzero on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:45PM (#13143517)

There were too many meta-exploits in Eve. My alliance lost our player constructed station because we kept on having the server crash underneath us when we were clearly winning a battle to take down an enemy's tower. After the 3rd time that happens, it's harder to get people to the battle.

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Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by FreezerburnV on Saturday December 10, 2016 @02:07AM (#13144480)

I'm pretty sure ships have always, or at least for many years, had some kind of collision boundary with each other, with stations, etc. Case in point: a highly effective tactic to keep huge ships that take forever to align for warping from actually getting into warp, was to take a small ship and "bump" it, causing it to get out of alignment. This was used in portions of space where aggressive actions on ships (such as warp scrambling) would be met with swift destruction.

I think they recently changed it to be mass-based though, so you can't really bump a Freighter with a Frigate.

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Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by ry_ry on Saturday December 10, 2016 @05:01AM (#13144943)

Ships can bump each other to prevent them reaching safety, to manipulate ranges, cause them to lose their targets (ships within a pos forcefield can't target anything, disrupting logistics) or to knock stranded friendly ships into the safety of a force field.

It's actually quite nuanced. Bumping doesn't damage shops though.

In this case, I think it was simply a turn of phrase.

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Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by cjslep on Friday December 09, 2016 @07:34PM (#13143178)

You can warp through planets. You can also create bookmarks while warping. Create a bookmark as you warp through a planet, and now you can warp to that bookmark inside the planet.

Edit: I think in an update you no longer warp inside the planet though (and get launched out of it), just to its edge or its designated warp point in lieu of landing inside. Its been forever since I played.

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Re:Eve Evolved: Analysing Eve's New Economic Reports by stcredzero on Friday December 09, 2016 @08:39PM (#13143503)

You can also create bookmarks while warping.

I think that's what I did. I discovered a pocket of near-stability in the center of planets. I had some sort of plan to try and anchor containers and things there, which I never finished.

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