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General Sideboob
Storm Wind Strikeforce
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.12 18:44:00 -
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I was looking out the window of the battle barge the other day and I watched a storm system of clouds cross a part of the planet roughly analogous to the Pacific ocean in about ten seconds. It seems unlikely that it would even be possible to hold combat operations on a planet where the winds are in the tens of thousands of kph.
I should point out here that the view from the battle barge is spectacular. This is just a little thing I noticed. |
Ulysses Knapse
Nuevo Atlas Corporation
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Posted - 2013.04.12 19:23:00 -
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1. The planet's atmosphere might be thinner, so wind speed might not mean much.
2. The planet could be smaller, thus the clouds having an easier time traversing.
3. You sure? The pacific ocean is awfully big. I think you might be exaggerating.
4. High wind speed in the sky does not necessarily mean high wind speed near the ground.
Let me point this out to you. The pacific ocean is so large that if you look at its center on a globe, landmasses hardly create a ring around your vision. You can't even see that much of the planet from a War Barge. |
I-Shayz-I
ZionTCD
Legacy Rising
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Posted - 2013.04.12 20:05:00 -
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Also, there's like a hurricane going on too, and it moves across the ground faster than it spins.
This is very unlikely, I think the clouds shouldn't move at all really. |
General Sideboob
Storm Wind Strikeforce
Caldari State
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Posted - 2013.04.12 21:10:00 -
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Ulysses Knapse wrote:1. The planet's atmosphere might be thinner, so wind speed might not mean much.
2. The planet could be smaller, thus the clouds having an easier time traversing.
3. You sure? The pacific ocean is awfully big. I think you might be exaggerating.
4. High wind speed in the sky does not necessarily mean high wind speed near the ground.
Let me point this out to you. The pacific ocean is so large that if you look at its center on a globe, landmasses hardly create a ring around your vision. You can't even see that much of the planet from a War Barge.
I didn't have my measuring tape handy, but the cloud crosses a large fraction of the planet's surface in less than a minute. I'm not saying it's impossible, but the odds of there being winds like that on anything but a gas giant seem unlikely to me.
It is certainly not a deal breaker, but it looks kind of stupid |
Volgair
The Tritan Industries
RISE of LEGION
269
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Posted - 2013.04.13 00:06:00 -
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You wouldn't by chance be a red line sniper would you? That's about the only job on the "field" that allows you the time and security to stare at the clouds. |
KAGEHOSHI Horned Wolf
Seraphim Initiative.
CRONOS.
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Posted - 2013.04.13 00:39:00 -
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Different planets have different wind speeds, different amount of mass in the atmosphere, different size (same wind speed on a small planet would look faster). You can't apply how things work on Earth to every planet. |
Soremy
Vacuum Cleaner. LLC
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Posted - 2013.04.29 19:07:00 -
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There's minimum size of planets in our universe. And minimum size for planets to have atmosphere. So it can't be very small, and clouds are really too fast in Dust. On Earth you'll never even see the clouds movement. Even in storm wind speed never rich ~100 mph, in compare to ~7963 miles (Earth diameter) it's very slow. |
Klivve Cussler
Ransoms Incorporated
107
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Posted - 2013.04.29 20:48:00 -
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The cloud thing is from Eve. Basically they have a layer of clouds over the planet that rotates in relation to to planet. This was done to give the planets a bit of variety so they don't look exactly the same every time you go by, and to make things interesting when doing planetary interaction.
Dust just inherited the issue.
Anyways, just wait until Uprising. I can't wait to actually be looking at the planet I'm going to fight on from the barge. Each planet in Eve has a unique surface map. I'm hoping that the view will be centered over the district we're fighting in, but no one has mentioned it.
Theoretically, that planet map will influence the map we fight on. Exactly how is still unclear. It won't be the terrain, obviously, because I think as of May 14 we'll have about seven maps. But the "mood" of the map (colors, vegetation, cloud cover, day/night state, weather?, etc) may be determined by what we can see from orbit, adding to to the immersion. It was one of the coolest things about this game, IMHO, and I'm still hoping to see it in action.
Oh, and if you're looking to pick at the planets, none of them have any polar ice. This from a company headquartered within spitting distance of the arctic circle. |
Jakob Evhin
Dead Six Initiative
Lokun Listamenn
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Posted - 2013.04.29 22:10:00 -
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Haha, I noticed this too a while back. I don't midn it really, it's mostly there for eye candy, but I wouldn't mind if they changed it either. Maybe instead of clouds that show super high winds as graphical pizazz, they can show a corona or something every once in a while with the planet moving past it's star, or little explosions on the planets surface (small bursts of light really), showing conflict.
Unless they already do this and I just haven't noticed. |
shaman oga
Nexus Balusa Horizon
49
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Posted - 2013.04.29 22:14:00 -
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CCP nerf the wind pls |
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Green Living
Pink Fluffy Bounty Hunterz
Noir. Mercenary Group
166
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Posted - 2013.04.29 23:49:00 -
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The moving clouds are OP. |
KalOfTheRathi
Talon Strike Force LTD
Orion Empire
382
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Posted - 2013.04.30 05:00:00 -
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Green Living wrote:The moving clouds are OP. Nerf the Kitten out of them Killer Clouds in Outer Space.
Clouds? 
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mollerz
s1ck3r Corp
157
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Posted - 2013.04.30 05:15:00 -
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Every temperate planet has a minimum Category 5 hurricane going off. I often think so, anyway, as I warp through a space station. |
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