Ship Speed in EVE Online
Wondering how fast your ship can go? How quickly it turns? How long it takes to get to top speed? Find out below. If you just need some navigation advice, read the ship piloting and navigation guide. For a primer on ships in Eve Online, check out the ship basics guide.
Certain types of ships tend to be fast, and some tend to be slow, and some are in the middle. For example, covert ops ships are very fast, but industrials are very slow.
Ship Acceleration and Turning
The mass of your ship, along with its inertial modifier, determine your ship's agility, which is a measure of how long it takes to accelerate and turn. Even if two ships have different top speeds, if their mass and inertial modifiers are the same, then they will both reach their respective top speeds in the same amount of time.
Your acceleration is determined with this formula:
Velocity after t seconds =
(top speed) *
(1 - (e to the (-t * (10 to the 6th power) / ((inertia modifier) * (mass)))))
How do I improve that?
Some skills are specifically meant for improving ship performance. Skills like Navigation and Evasive Maneuvering improve acceleration and ship speed. There are also Inertia Stabilizer modules and Hull Nanofiber Structures that reduce your inertial modifier.
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