Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm Commander Shepard, and this is my favorite change in Rubicon

Was about time we get a T2 Cane hull
But it sure could use some extra fluff to make it look a bit more badass - to me it looks like only the texture changed.
It needs extra fins or something like the T2 Pest

Not a huge fan of the Cyclone hull myself but the Sleipnir is a great ship and I'm not like my girlfriend that only uses the Pokemon that look cute ;)

" opening up options for our art team in the future.." or CCP way of saying "Suck it" and wait,new command ship models or end of the world,whichever comes first.
Poor Abso,poor Nighthawk,ill miss your looks

Absolution is the only place I'm strongly opinionated on. And it sucks. The gold and crimson hawk's beak is such an iconic image to possess, along with the short, large body that fans out into wings. For this ship to lose such an iconic piece of itself hurts bad enough, but the fact that it's getting replaced by a model who's primary design function is in showcasing all six weapon hardpoints working in harmony is just salt in the wound. Especially with how visible lasers are in space, the 5 weapons will look completely out of place on harbinger's hull, no matter what is done for that 6th or 7th slot, it will always feel like something is missing. On the prophecy hull, 6 turrets still looked best, but even with 5 you could still fill up the 4 on the wings and have one fire from the middle, which was tolerable. But there is simply no way to get 5 turrets to look aesthetically pleasing with the hardpoints that harbinger has.

The rest of the hull looks great, I'd say the color scheme has been applied extraordinarily well, the overall shape is pretty good, and I absolutely love the locations of the thrusters. That empty 6 weapon hardpoint on the wings just kills it. So please (although I'm sure it's too late), please look into moving one of the new Absolution-harbinger's wing high slots to be along the middle, and adjusting the remaining 5 on the wings to be more aesthetic and organized-looking.

I've tried that, and everything possible. There's no way to get 5 turrets to look good on the wings, and I can't stand having one in the middle (especially not where the middle hardpoints are) when there are open wingspots. It's a damned if you do, damned if you don't kind of situation. In the case of lasers, because of their visibility, I actually think it's pretty cool to have them all grouped up nice and tight, it makes them seem to meld together into one giant laser beam. I feel like the design of the harbinger is like the Abaddon, in that part of its iconic look and feel are how it showcases all of the turrets physically grouped together and firing in sync. But think of how the Abaddon would look if you randomly took out one or two of the non-end turret hardpoints and just left the empty spot there. That's how it feels flying a harbinger hull with only 5 turrets.

Another really bad decision from ccp. do u ever listen to u'r player base before u implement bogus ideas like this? Grats on losing players since 2011

You'll learn to love the new and improved waffle iron.

Badideas.com - nobody wants to trade in the look of the Absolution or the Sleipnir for the harbinger and hurricane. Harby guns slots look terrible too. Eos for Myrmidon? I can see its market price dropping already.

This whole change is an answer to a question that was not asked.

I arrived early to that party and following it since I do not see the overwhelmingly positive feedback. What I saw was huge demand on T2 BC for the alternate hulls. So a new T2 BC for those hulls would cause exactly the same euphoria which CCP thought is caused by the model switch on Command ships.

Just reintroducing modified Field Commands for this would do the trick... drop the link bonuses so they do not interfere with the Command line of BC, give it some sig bonus as role bonus, name it Assault Battlecruisers and everyone is happy.

Right now you destroyed numerous ICONIC ships for no real reason... Well played CCP.

I agree with you.. I personally wish CCP would change back to the old models which were much better.