ED has more complex flight model (EvE looks at ships as vectors of their velocity), but EvE has way more complex damage calculations. Where ED is all about damage faloff and resistances on two layers, EvE has full scale of application attributes of two kinds. Where turrets use tracking and radial velocities to determine wether they even hit, then damage is being additionally calculated not only based on resistances and damage types, but also transversal velocity. Missiles on the other hand, has flight speed and flight velocity, and if it hits, it determines damage caused by a function of explosion radius, velocity and target ship radius and velocity. TiDi works because combat is basically rts.
Elite is new EVE! But...
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ED has more complex flight model (EvE looks at ships as vectors of their velocity), but EvE has way more complex damage calculations. Where ED is all about damage faloff and resistances on two layers, EvE has full scale of application attributes of two kinds. Where turrets use tracking and radial velocities to determine wether they even hit, then damage is being additionally calculated not only based on resistances and damage types, but also transversal velocity. Missiles on the other hand, has flight speed and flight velocity, and if it hits, it determines damage caused by a function of explosion radius, velocity and target ship radius and velocity. TiDi works because combat is basically rts.
EVE its an MMO yes. Elite is different, its a single player game with a multiplayer plug-in with VERY limited coop.
Every single ship in EVE works different from each other, from smaller tiny frigates to huge titans. All the ships have their own play-styles but in Elite its very limited.
Yes you have joystick movement but thats it.
Why build stations when stations already exist?
EvE works well with trade because there are places worth controlling. There are no chokepoints. There are no places worth controlling in ED. There is no reason to fight over any location or to prevent others from taking resources from a location.
Imagine, let's say ED was open only and cross platform, that you could field enough players to provide round the clock security of a system to prevent people getting in and taking some resources.
My response: "Ok... i'll just go over here instead then, where nobody will try and stop me."
The resources in Elite aren't impotant. You can't produce anything and NPC don't produce anything with the resources, there's also no chain of production and no demand.
The resources are vastly distributed in abundance so there's no point in controling anything.
In EVE you can develop the system to make it richer so there's a point in controling them. In Elite you will always have offer of everything and you will never produce anything.
My friend, you are really already 100500 who offers to take something from EVE, so don't even strain, it won't work). And the most interesting thing is that EVE is not a space simulator, it's just an MMORPG against the background of space scenery, so you can just as well offer the mechanics of many MMO games. But you'd better relax)