Player Features and Ideas Discussion

This might fit in better with Soundwave's idea of 'little things' as it's pretty minor (although it gets my OCD going something chronic), but I think this would improve the look of a few ships in EVE - most notably, my favourite ship, the Arbitrator.


The problem:

Currently, the Arbitrator has 4 hislots with three weapon hardpoints (two turret and one missile launcher). With four hislots, this allows you four places for your weapons to appear on the ship. As a visual aid, I'd like to point you to this screenie:

http://eve-files.com/dl/253355

As it stands now, turrets can appear in the first four hardpoints on the model (which are either side of the bridge, and either side and in front of the bridge). You will also see on the screenshot that other mounts for turrets are in use, one behind the bridge on a sort of platform, and two others on the engine nacelles. Currently, weapon module locations are needlessly restricted.


The solution:

With 4 hislots available, but at least seven points on the model for weapons to appear, we already have the groundwork laid for some ship customisation that should be fairly easy to implement by moving weapon modules onto other hislot spaces in the fitting screen. By allowing us to use these other spaces on the ship model to mount weapons on, players can relocate weapons to change the appearance of their ships with a minimum of programming wizardry at CCP.


While I appreciate that me worrying about the symmetry of an internet spaceship is of concern only to me, it would make a nice addition to turret improvements when missile turrets are released later this year.