EVE General Discussion

Ships in this game kill other ships by shooting, whether it be lasers, artillery, missiles, whatever. I'm fine with that, but we can do better. Let us open our minds, be creative, and envision ships that fight in other ways.

IDEA

What about a largish ship type (subcap, at least battleship-size, probably larger), possibly classified as a 'salvage' ship, which would open a set of jaws and 'swallow' other ships? Don't laugh, hear me out. It would perhaps use stealth (cloaking) to close in on its targets. It wouldn't fit 'weapons' (lasers, etc), however it would have a good tank and it might fit something like webbing to slow its prey down (perhaps it would even be bonused for webs, maybe cloak). Perhaps it could fit a special tractor beam module that tractored ships into it's maw.

Anyway, here's the kicker: once it swallows a ship, that ship winds up in its cargo hold, and the pilot of the 'maw' ship is free to do whatever he wants with it :) I imagine the pilot of the 'victim' ship dies (is podded), but he could always eject before the inevitable.

Anyway, post your cool ideas here.

A kung-fu tactical destroyer that changes shape, not to gain different bonuses, but to violently apply karate-chop to other ships in melee range and do damage that way. Basically, you spam the button to go from the straight configuration to the 90 degree / vertical configuration, and thus (*****-)slap nearby ships in the process, doing DPS.

A new type of MJD, where if you jump your 100km distance THROUGH a ship, it takes damage cause you passed through it. So you just spastically jump through it over and over again, like a ghost passing through a person.

Harpoon defense for mining barges: when an attacker comes near, you shoot your harpoon, then proceed to use the harpoon line to bash the attacker against two nearby rocks repeatedly, like it happens in cartoons or like the Hulk did to Loki. Higgs Anchor rig required for this to work.

The "Player Features and Ideas Discussion" section of the forums is in the link below...


https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=topics&f=270


...you should have a more thought out presentation then what you posted!

its actually a starwars ship...

ah ok, not seen it but seen the same thing gobble the millenium falcon in the new star wars

We need ships with pincers. Giant space pincers.

Also, ships that are explosive; you fly towards the enemy, and at the point where you'd be bumping, your ship actually explodes, doing damage.

They should also enlarge all those moving bits and rotating gears on the mining barges, so they can do damage, like spiked truck wheels / sawblades.

The Magnate is mostly engines; CCP should introduce "weaponized boosters" that instead of consuming, you add to the engine / afterburner to create noxious exhaust that does damage like during mercoxit mining. So all you have to do is fly around the enemy to envelop it in your ... cloud, to kill it, or at least make it pass out, ECM-like.

A battleship sized hull similar to the Large Weapon BCs (Oracle, Naga ... etc)

Low EHP, no drones but able to fitt XL weapons. DPS lower then a dread but higher then a standart BS. Bad tracking like a dread.

Their main role would be support DPS vs caps and supercaps.
Their main weakness would be that they cant defend themselfs from anything and have low EHP compared to a standart BS.

A tractor beam that works on ships so you can pull all those pesky little frigs into smartbomb range.

A low slot weapon upgrade module that gives all weapons systems a 5000% tracking and damage bonus against T3 destroyers.

Five frigates that combine to make a BC!

Pilots can argue over who becomes the head.

--Gadget wants to hold the sword

What about a special bridge ship? It can act as a cross between a titan bridge and a Microjump field generator. All fleeted (or maybe all just to cause problems) ships in say a 5-10km range (including the bridging ship) are jumped to the cyno. Increase fatigue timers as a balance maybe. And the module that does this could have various limitations like one use and done or burns out on use. Warp scrambling the ship could prevent activation. Limited light year jump distance. Who knows. Just a way to add in a bit more fleet mobility without being overkill and going back to the days of Supers going everywhere.

Industrial siphon ship... A ship with a special module that allows for siphoning from pos or drilling platform. Maybe the siphoning module could act like a bastion or seige module locking the ship in place but temporarily improving survivability.

Honestly, I've always wanted a mobile factory ship, science vessel, or something. I have an Indy alt. He can invent and construct any ship in the game including titans pretty much. He can fly... An ibis. Ok maybe a hair more than an ibis, but at best an Indy hauler or the like. Obviously it would take more skills, but well, why not. Maybe it could be a sort of orca for exploration groups. It could have low mass and vastly improved core probes but they could be slower scan speed than normal. It could also have ship hangar, fleet hangar, and minor boosts to repair drones. Basically a flying mobile exploration base. Or a mobile factory that can produce small mods and items at a taste for cheaper pace when logged in but must be in low or nul and can't be tethered while manufacturing.

As for a normal set of ships... I still want a T1 armor/missile based faction.