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Make the Primae useful
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Lairel Dallocort
Hot Lobster
#1 - 2014-06-15 23:15:37 UTC
The Primae may have been useful in the past and for trial accounts, but now it's fairly useless. Even a trial account can train a few hours to get into an Epithal or Iteron.

Basically, make the Primae have approximately the same training requirements as a noctis (as far as ship class requirements go). Give it just about the same low, mid, and rig slot numbers and defensive numbers as a Noctis as well. Give it a 6000m^3 command center cargo bay so you can carry 6 command centers at once (max number you can deploy) and something like a 15000m^3 or 20000m^3 PI product bay. Give it two high slots for a combo of a probe launcher and a cloak and some small amount of regular cargo bay, like 1m^3, for probes. Give it just enough powergrid and cpu to run a sister's core probe launcher, cloak, and T2 shield tank. Make it slow as hell, like 120 m/s, so it's vulnerable.

This makes a decent dedicated PI ship and prevents it from really being used for anything else since it doesn't have enough cargo bay to do anything. The point of this is to have a ship that supports PI very well but has literally no other use.
Danika Princip
GoonWaffe
Goonswarm Federation
#2 - 2014-06-15 23:17:29 UTC
But the primae isn't SUPPOSED to be useful. It was a freebie.
Mohingan Dark
Onyx Horizon Technologies
#3 - 2014-06-16 00:40:18 UTC
Danika Princip wrote:
But the primae isn't SUPPOSED to be useful. It was a freebie.


geckos were free
Bohneik Itohn
10.K
#4 - 2014-06-16 02:45:52 UTC
Is the Primae even still being seeded to the game by any means?

Not saying that the Primae doesn't need to be made useful, just pointing out that if there are only a limited number of them and that number is only going to decline, then CCP's focus is going to be on ships that do not have a limited number and are more actively used.

You may be praying for snow in the middle of the Gobi, on this one. Sorry.

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Lairel Dallocort
Hot Lobster
#5 - 2014-06-16 04:33:59 UTC
Bohneik Itohn wrote:
Is the Primae even still being seeded to the game by any means?

Not saying that the Primae doesn't need to be made useful, just pointing out that if there are only a limited number of them and that number is only going to decline, then CCP's focus is going to be on ships that do not have a limited number and are more actively used.

You may be praying for snow in the middle of the Gobi, on this one. Sorry.



Ah, I was not aware of that. So as a special edition ship, it's kind of rare and useless. Totally understand that then, disregard this then. If they were to make it more useful and seed it somehow, though, that would be pretty cool, too.
Hasikan Miallok
Republic University
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2014-06-16 05:14:21 UTC
Lairel Dallocort wrote:



Ah, I was not aware of that. So as a special edition ship, it's kind of rare and useless. Totally understand that then, disregard this then. If they were to make it more useful and seed it somehow, though, that would be pretty cool, too.


They did ... and called it the Noctis.



The Primae is not totally useless, its the only way you can move command centers on a trial account. Not sure why you would want to ... but hey.