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Miranda Ctan
Radex Solutions
#1 - 2012-11-26 16:08:13 UTC
This is just a small change that I think would add a nice little bit of flavor to the game.

Why not have racial pod designs?
We already have the racial rookie ships that are given to a player based on their heritage, having a few different pod models would be a nice touch.

As is, pods look the same. I think It'd be nice to have a slightly different pod design for each race in Eve.
For example, perhaps Amarr pods would have the embossed designs we're starting to see on the new ship redesigns. Caldari pods might be a little more box-like and perhaps asymmetrical. Minmatar pods could be uh... I dunno, something flimsy.

I'm not a designer but you get the idea.
Darenthul
Anstard Armory Inc.
#2 - 2012-11-26 16:13:43 UTC
Miranda Ctan wrote:
This is just a small change that I think would add a nice little bit of flavor to the game.

Why not have racial pod designs?
We already have the racial rookie ships that are given to a player based on their heritage, having a few different pod models would be a nice touch.

As is, pods look the same. I think It'd be nice to have a slightly different pod design for each race in Eve.
For example, perhaps Amarr pods would have the embossed designs we're starting to see on the new ship redesigns. Caldari pods might be a little more box-like and perhaps asymmetrical. Minmatar pods could be uh... I dunno, something flimsy.

I'm not a designer but you get the idea.


Would be kinda cool, I mean obviously not high priority, but still cool.

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Destination SkillQueue
Doomheim
#3 - 2012-11-26 16:16:09 UTC
The pod is of Jove racial design and needs to fit in every ship in the universe, so there can't be major differences in the pods.
Miranda Ctan
Radex Solutions
#4 - 2012-11-26 16:16:39 UTC
Darenthul wrote:

Would be kinda cool, I mean obviously not high priority, but still cool.


Definitely not high priority, but they're just pods. An intern could probably knock them out in a day each. Its not like they'd have any balance issues or hardpoints, or anything like that to worry about. Literally just little capsule shaped models.
Jade Zen
URSA PRIMUS
URSA.
#5 - 2012-11-26 16:17:42 UTC
I feel like the gallente pod should be able to have at LEAST one drone.
I mean c'mon its their bread and butter.
Miranda Ctan
Radex Solutions
#6 - 2012-11-26 16:17:49 UTC
Destination SkillQueue wrote:
The pod is of Jove racial design and needs to fit in every ship in the universe, so there can't be major differences in the pods.


If you need to explain it lore-wise, I'm sure in the past 10 or however many years Eve has been around that someone must have found a way to customize them.
Luc Chastot
#7 - 2012-11-26 16:44:31 UTC
Jade Zen wrote:
I feel like the gallente pod should be able to have at LEAST one drone.
I mean c'mon its their bread and butter.


Drones are about the size of a pod, you know?

Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot.

Hakan MacTrew
Konrakas Forged
Solyaris Chtonium
#8 - 2012-11-26 17:58:53 UTC
Jove tech is beyond the reach of current development. Jove designed pods, the univeral design, would only be replaced by something better. Why would anyone bother trying to make a better one when they can only replicate the tech as is and are not capable of improving upon it?

It would have to be the same size, weight, shape and mass, using the same interface and tech. So, in other words, it would have to be the same. About the only differences you could get away with would be the paint job.

How many people actually spend any protracted time in their pods?

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