Figuring Object Distances

XB7 · Post by **XB7** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 2:58 am

I've been able to acquire proximity distances from other ships and nav points. How do I acquire the distance of objects, such as astroids?

Right now, I'm slowing my speed down to about 200 and leave my mining bean on. I then cut the power on contact with the beam. Is there a better way or another option I'm overlooking?

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:11 am

that is what I do also. Don't know any other way. Welcome to the forum and the game if I havn't don so before (lol).

Wasp89 · Post by **Wasp89** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:46 am

I believe they call it "dead reckoning" in the industry. Maybe because if you don't "reckon it right", you become just another hood ornament on an over-sized rock hurtling through space...well, okay, so it really isn't moving. I guess I just wanted to say, YOU DIE. Bringing it back in...

I frequently use the size of an object in relation to my hud elements to determine when I need to turn/slow down/speed up/etc. For example, (not saying this works...), if you are flying at full speed towards an asteroid, wait until the rock fills up roughly half the area inside the big circular hud line and then let off the afterburner/turn IDS on, and coast to a stop. Of course, that method could leave you 2000m away from the asteroid or give the asteroid another impact crater, I don't know. It will give you roughly the same result with each subsequent try, however. You get the idea. Someone should test it...

Storm · Post by **Storm** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:56 am

I'm an old astronomy buff... built a couple of telescopes (simple reflectors) and so forth. Along those same lines, I taught myself to navigate... purchased a cheap sextent from Edmund Scientific years ago, taught myself how to use nautical charts etc. Although I was "land-locked", the only sailing that I ever did was with those "mini sailboats" (such as the "Sunfish") on lakes.

Anyway... just HAD to contribute to this, I'm still fascinated by it, the origin of the term is indicated:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning

Basically dead reckoning is estimating your current position based on an old known position.

XB7 · Post by **XB7** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 3:57 pm

LOL, Wasp! I was wondering why your ship was blowing up every three minutes last night.

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 5:52 pm

Wasp uses dead reckoning for missiles as well. As soon as the missile fills up roughly the outer circle of his HUD, he drops countermeasures

Steel Wraith · Post by **Steel Wraith** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 6:27 pm

in eve they say real men hull tank, i think we just found out how real men fly in EL

tha_rami · Post by **tha_rami** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 7:59 pm

With normal shielding, I think the maximum bounce speed is 700. This should also be true in asteroid caves, although the game destroys you if you 'get stuck'.

Wasp89 · Post by **Wasp89** » Tue Feb 17, 2009 10:00 pm

Yeah, I know about Dead-Reckoning because it is a method of navigation that is used in flight, and was the primary method of navigation before instrument flight, before VOR, NBD, before GPS...

But my favorite of all is FBR: Fly By Road! Unfortunately, there is a distinct lack of asphalt in space...

And the reason I was blowing up all the time last night was because I was investigating where a bunch of wormholes lead to...unfortunately, wormholes are a one-way-trip-only phenomenon, and so I was suiciding (verbifying nouns!) so that I could get back to the place with all the wormholes and keep investigating.