Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This is a very good idea.

I support this

I think that after 200 years, it is time that the two races, separate their technologies.
I support this

I'm thinking on the scale of Gallente and Caldari lore, so forgive me if it don't make practical sense ...

But it seems as if the primary weapon system of the Caldari is missiles. Capable of delivering any payload and damage type, focusing on shields or armor, and able to track and follow a target on it's own. Quite hi tech.

Gallente, on the other hand, have a primary weapon system of drones. Completely autonomous and devastating at close range.

The idea of a two races sharing the ethnic alternative of hybrid technology, while Caldari focus on long range implementation of railguns, the Gallente focus on the short range use of the technology for blasters.

I guess what I'm saying is that, from an outsiders perspective, both races have unique weapon systems. The biggest flaw in this logic is that for some reason, those weapon systems are shared amongst all four races. To me, this adds a bit more uniqueness to the whole thing.



Here's my point: Instead of each race being completely 'unique', and thus ending up identical in design by having their own primary weapons and shared secondary (missiles, drones), the races each have their own mixture. Amarr are primary lasers, which suck on other boats, but have borrowed drone and missile tech. Minmatar have their projectile weapons, but have borrowed drone and missile tech.

Gallente have hybrids and drones, and Caldari have hybrids and missiles. There are similarities between Amarr/Minmatar and Gallente/Caldari. But no race is a complete 'clone of a different color' to any other.

If you made each race completely unique with primary and shared secondary, they'd all stop being unique on basic design principle.

This isnt that bad of an idea.

While it may be nice, if you haven't learned this here's some assistance: don't ever expect dev feedback on ideas posts. Bug fixes, maybe, but content boosters?

Only feedback you'll get is seeing it hit the planning tables in a year or so, it they like it. Otherwise, there's no way to tell if they read it, like it, have seen it, or what.

But as a very old poster in the F&I forums, I promise you that they DO read these things.

Wow man, just WOW. This is really good. I fully support of this!

1. It goes well with the lore
2. Easier to balance bonuses in the future
3. Make the game richer in content ( variety)

Hopefully this will go thru in the near future!

I'd say there's probably a good chance that if CCP was going to revamp hybrids there'd be an SP refund and skill change-up.

And I'd prefer split weapon systems to modified navy charges any day of the week. Because maybe then Caldari ships would have a more viable short range weapon and Gallente a more viable long range one. Because as it stands, there's (usually) little point in putting blasters on a Caldari ship when Gallente do it better, and vice versa with Railguns.

(Note: This isn't an end all be all rule. Save your time and don't type about how awesome you think your blaster Rokh is)

Good point,

As CCP have a skill "golden rule" for the upgrades, that is: "If you could use it before you will still be able to use it now", Probably if you have "Large Hybrid Turrets 5" you will get "Large Pasma Turets 5" and "Large Magnectic Turrets 5" from it, for example.

Also, Since Blasters have a really poor range and a good tracking, a 20% range bonus that Caldari ships give is a wasted bonus, compared to the tracking bonus that gallente ships give to this weapon that takes the tracking to awesome levels.
And the same Is valid for the Rail guns, giving it tracking speed don't change its usefulness as much as giving it more range and shooting from further. Distant targets have almost no angular velocity anyway.

So for example, a Rokh with Blasters sound as awkward as a Rokh with Auto-canons. As it is optimized to use rails.

If you compare, there will be a really low amount of people that uses Caldari with blasters that will dislike this Idea. Especially because the Mass driver will suit the caldari ships better then the blaster, and the Streamer will suit the gallente better then the rails.

But yes, as this would probably be added as a new tech! It sounds logical that people would have to train for these new weapons, as people trained for every new ship and module added in expansions.

http://www.eveonline.com/odyssey/

THE WAR MACHINES
Forged by the lessons learned from countless combat pilots, the four factions will issue forth with the latest tools of war and re-designs of old favorites - ships as awe-inspiring as they are deadly.

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We could have this in Oddysey... it would be interesting....but 30 days is not enough time for a feature anymore...

But I'm really Glad! It looks like part of one of my suggestions got added in Oddysey : [Eye Candy] 3 seconds to see the Explosions!!!!!
I can't wait to see this expansion! It can be one of the best expansions ever!

i think that in most cases the "Developers rule of conduct" prevent them from posting on normal treads, and probably they also have a limited number of posts on their own treads. I think that it could be productive if they sometimes try to develop some ideas along with the community. But in most cases I think that they don't interfere... or don't care...

Althoug if everyone gives a like in this and comment and this tread reaches 50 pages maybe they post...