EVE General Discussion

Technologies, at some point, do stabalize for extended periods of time.

How long was the bow and arrow used before we got a lead projectile propelled by expanding gases?
How long will we use this lead projectile until propelling another type of projectile by magnectic forces becomes common place?

The examples you shown from our recent history were complentments to existing technologies, not replacements.
They tech you suggest seem to be more of a replacement, than a complement to existing tech in Eve.

Edit: Improvements through innovation ( ie, balancing ) should happen far more often than the breakthroughs that seem to suggest a whole new weapon system.

I dont't think Eve would be served by this and it would only lead to more problem in balacning than we already have.

Disclaimer: this is a drunk post.

The arms race. We've had one in recent history, the past (20th) century demonstrating the rapid and aggressive adaptability of technology. Technology is a funny beast. It grows faster and faster. An exponential level of advancement. Arguably this is a continuing effect.

World War I: Infantry waves, trench warfare, brutal artillery. Stalemate-breaker: Tanks.

World War II: Blitzkrieg warfare, tanks, aircraft and carriers. Stalemate-breaker: The atomic bomb.

You see what I'm getting at, don't you?

We've been using the same goddamn weapons since the alpha/beta, bar a few exceptions like doomsday weapons. But there has been no arms race. Sure, the ships gradually and laboriously slowly get better... when Eve started, we had T1... a few years later, T2... and a few years after that, T3...

But they're still using the same damn guns. The same old, stagnant weapons we started with. They may get a % bonus to damage or RoF that's greater than lower-class ships of the line, but they're still using... the same weapons.

No scientist in New Eden appears to be working on NEW WEAPONS.

Here's what I'd like to see:

The Amarr Empire, after decades of technological collaboration with the Caldari State, discovers a method of projecting a particle free vacuum-beam through which an anti-matter beam can be channeled without the risk of anti-matter encountering matter until it hits the target. These weapons produce intense blast and kinetic effects upon impact.

The Caldari, employing exotic particle research involved in the creation of Amarr tachyon beams, invent a new tachyon-shielded warhead that slips through space instantly and arrives on target the second it is fired.

The Gallente, who strategically prefer defense over attack, combine high-explosive knowledge from the Minmatar Republic with their own drones, to create deployable self-regenerating minefields filled with seeking bomb-drones that function like a warp-bubble that hurts.

The Minmatar, thanks to their close relations with the fading Jovian empire, have secured exotic matter warhead technology never before seen among the four empires. These warheads are often unreliable, but when they function correctly, are devastating; capable of converting an Apocalypse battleship into a burning ball of exotic matter with a few solid strikes.

And here's the most important bit: this shit shouldn't be fair. Every few months, there should be a new breakthrough. A new weapon, just invented, that gives one empire an edge over the others... just long enough for the next counter-weapon to be developed.

tl;dr: New ships are nice. We want new weapons too. ("Like" this post if you agree, or post insults if you don't.)

And here's the most important bit: this shit shouldn't be fair. Every few months, there should be a new breakthrough. A new weapon, just invented, that gives one empire an edge over the others... just long enough for the next counter-weapon to be developed.

I was doing a quest earlier and it said that an asteroid had hit one of the stations and killed a lot of people. I thought to myself, how could a civilization such as this not stop an asteroid from hitting a station? Wat?

Its been ten years (almost).

We have had several new ships, several new classes of ships, new tank mods, some new weapons.


What, do you expect us to go from Civil War to WWII in a few weeks?