Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I know we all love the nightmare. It's an awesome ship and it's simply epic. And I don't want to step on any toes here, also keep in mind this is personal preference. But dayum the thing is ugly. It really is like something straight out of a nightmare. I mean it's a mess of a design. I don't know who decided to put a blob on a stick and mount a bunch of spikes to it. My request is simple. The title says it all. Please re-skin the nightmare. Make it more... ship looking. Right now it looks like dead protein mass on a skewer. I don't mean tweak it here and there. I'm officially requesting a complete re-skin of the ship.

If you were actually out in space and saw this thing, you would probably first laugh, then puke, then run in complete horror at it's awesome firepower, and while devastating it doesn't look formidable at all. It looks like Ugh-tok's club, maybe something a demented warrior would swing at you in world of warcraft. Ships aren't meant to be wielded by giant, drooling, one-eyed monstrosities. The phantasm looks like a cooked minnow from some depths of the ocean with spikes all over. The sansha's carrier looks like a streak of bubbly, mucousy spit that I see on the walkways of the jobsite I work at. It's not space-esque and doesn't keep the theme of something flying in space. Maybe a complete re-design of the entire sansha's lineup would be in order. There have been community ship skinning contests. Maybe a theme or an idea can be spawned from some of the runner up's and something can be created from those ideas.

Please dev's, please hear my plead. Thanks!

Most people? That's odd. Because every. single. person. I have talked to hates the design of it. Although not one single person I have run into hates flying one :)

Apparently not. But just imagine for one minute the nightmare looked like this:

http://www.benprocter.com/picture/030_veh_clusthroneship_ext_090223_view1_enginesclosed_bp_jh_ps.jpg?pictureId=8129273&asGalleryImage=true

And the carrier looked like this:

http://images.wikia.com/tron/images/c/c1/Carrier01.png
http://i.ytimg.com/vi/CwvrMJobNbQ/maxresdefault.jpg

I mean seriously there are thousands of ship designs out there that would look waaaaaay better for the pirate faction ships than what is currently in game. Sure you like them and maybe a small handful of people have grown to love them but what I am saying is there are much, MUCH nicer designs out there that could make the pirate ships look insanely badass while still retaining the "pirate" value in their designs..

Not empty quoting.

Beauty is in the eve of the beholder (or in this case... insane designer).


edit: you seem too stuck on "traditional designs" OP. Loosen up.

Here's a good frigate design:

http://www.wallpedes.com/resize/1152x864/wallpapers/wallpapers-futuristic-spaceship-dsng-sci-fi-megaverse-dropships-wallpaper-sci-fi-wallpapers-futuristic-spaceship-dsng-megaverse-dropships.jpg

And a good cruiser design:

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2013/239/f/e/spaceship_by_ghchew-d6jx8ck.jpg

Here's one which even has the amarrian nature in its design which is what the sansha's lineup is apparently based on:

http://img1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130415205050/halonocanon/es/images/1/14/R_lyons_05_hovercraft_sci_fi_future_futuristic_spacecraft_class1_class2_dropship_dsng.jpg

This is all stuff I pulled straight out of google images. I'm not saying to replace the designs with these ones, but just giving out ideas as to what the lineup "could" look like as opposed to what it is currently.

I'm not saying to go with that exact design. Just saying there are other designs out there that would make it look a lot nicer and still be just as mean looking.

Well that's like, your opinion man.


Real talk, Sansha's ships are fine, please reskin all the ships that look bad from PBR. Like the Cheetah and Navitas.

^^ Exactly this. One of the best looking ships in the game, especially the nightmare.

Although I have to admit, if it were redesigned to look like the narada, I would be 100% behind that :P

A celestis redesign is needed though.....badly......

Phantasm and Nightmare are fine.

Succubus, eh... whatever.

Revenant, gah! Needs less random bulges, more random spikes.

Not an empty quote.

To much individuality is being stripped from EvE's hull designs of late. Take for instance the lose of the far more original hull designs of the Moa, Crow and Exequror and there replacement by very nice but far more boring and generic models. I fear we shall lose the Dominix soon.