Mobius plasma isn't gas and not even contained in a ball of gas. If u need an example of plasma look out ur window during a lighting storm and tell me tht doesn't travel at the speed of light.

You still need to lead your target because the game is so laggy.

This.

Everyone is claiming sniping is easy pie. I've been seeing shield flickers and no dmg notifications for weeks now. Sometimes you have to lead, sometimes you don't, sometimes rocks magically and invisibly grow in size.

This.

Everyone is claiming sniping is easy pie. I've been seeing shield flickers and no dmg notifications for weeks now. Sometimes you have to lead, sometimes you don't, sometimes rocks magically and invisibly grow in size.

Yeah, I've been nailed by em enough times, but I learned to take cover and serpentine when there is no cover.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plasma_physics
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightning
I think you should read these, man.

Fixed it.

Best example I can think of is World Of Tanks and the artillery vs tanks. If you're smart, you can avoid them. If you're not too bright, they keep on earning a living.

Well, he's not wrong, it ISN'T gas (technically), it is it's own state of matter (Solid, Liquid, Gas, and Plasma.) However, it doesn't travel at the speed of light, in fact, it doesn't travel at all, Lighting is electricity (not light) turning the air around it into plasma for a very short duration before it cools again into gas. So you'd have to propel the plasma with some external force, for example, electromagnets (how do they work?.... sorry.) So the speed of the plasma, is entirely dependent on the method used to propel it. Plasma is very unstable however, so keeping it cohered together to do any real damage aside from a few burns is what makes plasma use as a weapon suck, in this case, the limiting factor is range. (EVE seems to have gotten this right.) And then there's the whole problem of keeping it in a plasma state, the obvious solution being to find a material that has a VERY low plasma point (the temperature at which it turns into plasma.)... Well, enough of that...

I get bored. When I get bored, I go on the internet. When I go on the internet, I look stuff up. When I look stuff up, I look up stuff about plasma. (Somehow... Yes, this is an actual chain of events of a day in my life...)

Well, the best I've got is my basic understanding of nuclear physics that I decided to learn because I live less than five miles from Three Mile Island.

The stupid thing shut itself off twice within one month, and I get to deal with this loveliness: Thursday, Nov. 1 - six separate tests beginning at 8 a.m. (three minutes each) - In the event of inclement weather these tests will occur on Friday, Nov. 2.

Thank you Noel. So now that Noel has explained plasma for us let me explain better the theory behind Eve's blasters and railguns (I call it a theory since eve isn't real but tries to stay relative to real things). First off railguns- a magnetic system propels a slug tht encases a substance with a high energy state (uranium, thorium, antimatter, etc.) At high speeds at the target, the slug is timed to ionize the inside material right before it hits the target (however the slugs shell starts to deteriorate from the inside once it leaves the gun due to lack of a sustained containment field, this causes damage falloff and Max range). Now blasters take the same shells as railguns but rather than just shooting the slug the blaster ionizes the inside material at the same time it magnetically launches the slug thus acheiving much faster speeds but limited range because the energy dissipates quickly.

Thank you Noel. So now that Noel has explained plasma for us let me explain better the theory behind Eve's blasters and railguns (I call it a theory since eve isn't real but tries to stay relative to real things). First off railguns- a magnetic system propels a slug tht encases a substance with a high energy state (uranium, thorium, antimatter, etc.) At high speeds at the target, the slug is timed to ionize the inside material right before it hits the target (however the slugs shell starts to deteriorate from the inside once it leaves the gun due to lack of a sustained containment field, this causes damage falloff and Max range). Now blasters take the same shells as railguns but rather than just shooting the slug the blaster ionizes the inside material at the same time it magnetically launches the slug thus acheiving much faster speeds but limited range because the energy dissipates quickly.

That makes enough sense... Programming it into Dust though... I dunno, I'm tired, I need sleep, you'll have to continue this w/o me. XP

We're there now. =)

Ha ha ha.
For quite possibly the hundredth time, the issues we have right now are related to a long-standing memory leak that they only managed to identify the source of in this build, same as CCP nothin finally found the sections of the ISK payout code that were going negative and causing the payouts to be so low. Both are already being worked on.

Heh, I know. I just like busting their balls about it. They also need to get rid of dust particles, make them static.

Back to the topic.

I think that conversation is a good example of why DUST514 is going to turn out average at best. *Not worth it*