EVE General Discussion

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Um, yeah

OP, Point 4 negates Points 1-3

I like the ship and am looking forward to the other ones. I like the animations as well so I suppose it is like art or music. Differing taste IS allowed and you are welcome to your opinion as we are to ours.

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I'd have to disagree with the fact that it does not look Amarrian in design. The whole point of it is that it ISN'T fully Amarrian, it incorporates Sleeper tech, and that fundamentally changes how the ship is going to look, based on how the Amarrian tech and Sleeper tech has to be interfaced between each other.

An example to look at is the Legion. Put the right subsystems on it, and it downright does NOT look fully Amarrian. It has non Amarrian, hell, if you want to be technical that has largely been developed outside New Eden, so of course it's going to differ in design from their own ships. They had to build the Confessor and Legion around Sleeper tech, and it's incorporation/adaptation to Amarrian tech, which is much more involved than changing a few screws around.

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For the subtle transformations, alright, big deal. Ship model animations are still relatively new to EVE, so they aren't going to be turning this long and thin ship into a fat block any time soon. Even then, if you have a fleet of 20-30 Confessors going around, and they all transition at once, that's going to be a lot for the server to process, so subtle saves performance.

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As for your fourth point, I disagree, I frequently manually go and check hostile ship models for intel. Look at it, and you can tell not only what weapon type it has (hybrid, projectile, energy, missiles), you can also find out whether it's the short, medium, or long range variant, which can be great to know, tactically, and can help you plan on what to hit. Granted, this generally only works for solo/small gang fights, as in big fights they're pretty much clobber fests anyways, and most of what you shoot is gonna melt. But going into a solo/small fight, and knowing if that cruiser in front of me has short range weapons or long range weapons, passive tank or active tank, any extras such as SeBos or ECCM, can be a great boon, and sure, we'd have to check the Confessor frequently to see which mode it's in, but that would just add another thing to mind tactically, which would make the whole shebang much more fun.

I always look at ships, I love seeing the blinding aura of my white hot lasers and hearing their hull buckle under the impact.

while i disagree with most parts i agree with the statement that it doesn't look amarr. i said that 2 days ago to a friend: paint it green and it would be a good gallente ship.

and the legion looks amarrian with sleeper tech, so why can't the confessor?

There is nothing like this with the current T3s, so why should you have such easy intel with new ones?


Oh wait.. Star Frontiers/TEST thread. Please ignore.

The ability to keep a small windowed camera view focused on the enemy would actually be handy on occasion.

It's great. It's the most detailed model yet. It brings a new idea to Amarr design language (the tiled pattern on top) that makes sense (ornate geometric tiling brings to mind Persian/Ottoman design). It sure beats the floral design seen on Amarr ships up to this point.



Well it doesn't look like a bloated chicken if that's what you mean. It sneaks the pointed beak shape in there without resorting to looking like some sort of derpy spacebird. It has rounded forms so it's obviously not Caldari or Minmatar. Its beige and gold and has ornate designs. Must be Amarr.



Has the most transformation of any ship in EVE so far.



I use the look-at button on the selected item panel to check out the tank and guns on my targets all the time. Will use it to check the stance on T3 destroyers as well.

Go find an Amarr outpost and tell me the ship doesn't look Amarr.

- lets face it, it's an expensive pod killing machine to celebrate the clone changes.

As a brawler myself, I can tell you straight up that I personally like to see my enemies as up close and personal as I possibly can, so actually, I see the models of opponent's ships quite often. Much more satisfying to see them explode from up close than 50+ km away.