r/Eve • u/Gornarion Caldari State • 18h ago
Bug They fixed it!
A while ago I figured that the description of the Radial Velocity was backwards (see linked post below) so I messaged support but never got a response back
https://www.reddit.com/r/Eve/comments/1thlyej/is_the_explanation_for_radial_velocity_backwards/
Today while playing around with my Overview filter settings I saw that it got fixed which got me giddy with excitement
Thanks for listening FCCP
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u/candyLipgrin 13h ago
imagine playing EVE long enough that a corrected tooltip becomes a genuine highlight of your day. honestly though, credit where it's due for actually fixing the little things players report.
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u/dirtywaterbowl 12h ago
As a new player my first and only thought about this was, someone uses that?
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u/Gornarion Caldari State 12h ago
Especially in large battle with numerous opponents it's nearly impossible to know who's closing or increasing distance from you based on their relative velocity, so you'd look at their Radial Velocity for that
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u/CueCueQQ Wormholer 12h ago edited 12h ago
Radial measures movement in the same unit as your guns do, so you can compare your gun radial velocity to targets on your overview to know which targets you can hit and which ones you can't.3
u/Gornarion Caldari State 12h ago
You're thinking of Angular Velocity; Radial Velocity is the speed at which an object is closing or increasing the distance between you
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u/The_Salacious_Zaand Goonswarm Federation 11h ago
And everyone still refers to transversal velocity when they mean angular velocity.
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u/CueCueQQ Wormholer 11h ago
Yea, I'm guilty of this too. I do make a bit of a deal about having angular on the overview, which is why I'm so embarrassed to have gotten the terms wrong. My punishment for losing EVE yesterday I guess.
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u/Gornarion Caldari State 10h ago
That's fully on CCP for making these explanations about Transversal and putting the words "guns" and "tracking" in there, slowly blurring the already vague line between Transversal and Angular
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u/saronyogg 10h ago
It feels nice when devs fix bugs, the more quickly or more impactful, the better.
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u/ccp_k1p1 CCP Games 16h ago
FC Critical heard your pleas and is in the business of making your (small and manageable but very valid) dreams come true. Thanks for reporting it! We do see them and are listening!