Combat is all about range, and if you're close enough to actually see the enemy ship models, you're probably about to explode.
I'll be amazed if Star Citizen ever comes close to the scale of EVE battles, though. There's so many technical challenges in making an MMO scale, especially when a game is so focused on graphical fidelity.
(Then again, EVE is a 20-year-old game at this point, and was designed for the limited PCs and bandwidth of the time. But I'm assuming that they're using modern top-end hardware for the servers, and they still struggle with the biggest battles)
At 10 Hz that is 40 million updates a second.
There are caches and prediction that can help but I ignore all gameplay in that number, it is just flying around.
That's how.
