EVE General Discussion

The new Chimera is too square. There's too many perfectly horizontal sections and too many perfectly vertical sections. The old/current model has a nice balance of flat and angled parts to it.




New ships need new roles.

There's only so many roles possible in a game.

It's why the Bowhead does something no other ship does. It's why the D3s do something no other ship does - even then people are upset that the new ships are making AFs redundant.

More ships for the sake of more ships is bad for the game.

So what is CCP going to do with their art department? If they're not making new models for new ships, then they're redundant and should be fired. But that'll mean there'll never be any new models - which is also bad for the game. CCP needs to have an art team that is constantly improving the game. This is why they're making the existing game look better.

Personally, I'm in for tweaking old designs with new rendering techniques and textures to make them look new and refreshed. Just look at the Typhoon or Stabber, for example. On the other hand, the new Blackbird and friends don't look that horrible in my opinion.

About the Chimera, I like its current shape, but I agree it could use some more detail, in the sense I mentioned above. I also agree it could be a bit bigger.

And about that supposedly concept art from the Art of EVE, for me it reminds me more about a possible Caldari Tactical Destroyer design.

EDIT: and about the Wyvern, please do keep its current shape! In my opinion it looks amazing. Maybe it could use more complex geometries on the prow side panels (which currently are flat panels).

Also, I agree capital ships could use some more details in their textures. Right now, if you zoom in on them they lose detail as quickly as frigates. On the other hand, that could require really big textures... But weren't there a request for a super-high quality textures pack?

CCP should give drone bays back to dreads , only change im requesting

Didn't bother reading 3 pages of posts before this but.....IMO all of the ships need to be touched up, including the Chimera. The model is fine but the textures need work. Even so - most of the new ship models look amazing, I certainly wouldn't say no to a new Chimera (although the attention and time would be better spent on ships that peopel commonly complain about being ugly).

Since the introduction of PBR it makes sense to have as many ships touched up as possible though because it makes the outdated textures on everything but Amarr ships look pretty bad.

would definitely buy a stratios model.....

But that is... Improssibru ( ͠° ͟ʖ ͡°)

to be honest that looks pretty good. also it seems like CCP is altering the whole style of caldari ship design to make them more modern looking, so no more blocky, instead we are getting more streamlined, high-tech looking ships like in most of modern sci-fi settings.

I for one, do like these changes. they reflect caldari's high-tech shield ship concept better than the old blocky designs, and I'm pretty sure every caldari ship change afterward would go for this direction.

Apparently the schematic indicates "point defense". Does this mean carriers are finally going to get turrets or launchers for defense?

if they do, theyll likely also nerf their HP, reduce their ability to field fighters (or reduce fighters ability to engage subcaps) or something else to ultra nerf them, as well as the nerf of needing highslot weapons to use the point-defense, all so they can "fairly" be engaged by subcaps in 1v1 fights, by which I mean lose to the ishtar