EVE General Discussion

No not unless there was a valid gameplay mechanic pertaining to them.

Story wise I don't really care. Jove is better as an enigma.

jove are almost dead, soon enough they'll be like talocans and sleepers, dead and extinct. 'Cept maybe we can salvage their ships.

The Jove Expansion is right after TotalHellDeath, but I hear that TotalHellDealth will have a Jove Expansion Escalation in it.
Both are on the Soon(tm) backlog.

Edit: The Escalation deals with Jove weapons IIRC.

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This.

Considering that the Terran Corps/Empires have had hundreds or maybe thousands of years to develop their tech unless the collapse of the EVE Gate affected them the same way as New Eden.

The problem with the Jove in EVE terms is essentially the same problem Star Wars Galaxies had (pre NGE):

If you give people a way to access something which is designed to be better than everything else, as the number of them increases, they end up ruining the game for everyone else or becoming so common that they render everything else obsolete.

On the flipside, if said item is designed only to be equal to everything else and offer nothing more for extra difficulty in getting access to it, you have to ask, what's the point?

It's really hard to balance things like this. Normally you'd go for something like limited use or access, to ensure that said items cannot possibly become to common and then factor things around this hard limit.

F'instance, CCP could allow players at some point to roll a Jove character, the caveat is that at *some point* they succumb to the Jovian Disease. The problem with this is a meta game issue, I'd imagine people would be extremely unhappy if they'd spent 6-12 months skilling up a special character for it to essentially biomass itself.

Fwiw, I think CCP are better using the Jove as a plot device for EVE's ongoing storyline. Be nice if they featured in more live events again like they used to.

(*as a side note, I'd imagine as SW:TOR has flopped that Lucasarts might now realise this and make the next SW mmo explore the actually rather rich SW universe, rather than focus on Force Users).

I think it could be balanced and knock out the bittervet cries for more content at the same time. What if to fly a Jove frigate you had to have all race frigates at 5 to train jove frig 1? Jove ships should have omni-stats, meaning like the sensors on the apotheosis at +10 to all sensor strengths. However, you could only give them a slight advantage, maybe say (just as an example) shields would have equal resists to all damages but only 35%, and there is an added penalty to boosting resists to all non-jove modules (including T2). In that way, yes you could have a f*** off jove frig fitted with all jove tec, but it would be a hero fit like that 80 billion isk mission runner BS that got ganked in empire the other week. Crazy expensive because jove mods (the ones that don't receive the penalty and only fittable on jove ships) are really rare. So Jove BS would require all race BS at 5 and only give the slightest advantage... it would still be fodder for any small low sec gang of pirates.

everyone knows jove ships are 8/8/8. They must never be unleashed

thought they were 9001/9001/9001/9001

shhh its a supprise.

I'd be all for a wormhole opening into Azeroth... we could have Deathwing's cousin threaten our new Dust 514 worlds ala the space dragon in MOO II. (press me, I'll work a reference to Defender in here somewhere as well. Smart bombs indeed.)