EVE General Discussion

Buh? The Thrasher is awesome! It looks like a train, only a train packed with guns and death!

I love the Thrasher. It's one of my favorite ships in the game, by far. I like the design of the Thrasher/Cyclone series. Trains are awesome, and space-trains are even more awesome, and space-trains that pack the firepower of those ships are the most awesome yet.

The Catalyst is also pretty cool -- that "flying wing" design looks neat. It's one of the only Gallente ships that I really like the looks of.

The Cormorant looks...Caldari, which can be good or bad depending on how you like that "asymmetrical bird" look of Caldari ships. (I have to admit, the Moa grew on me.)

The Coercer is just boring-looking, and the worst dessie in the game due to the single midslot layout.

I hope you're right. At least there still is time to redo it. If you see how quickly a player came up with a mod that instantly looks better by an order of magnitude. Then a professional should be able to produce something admirable by release.

CCP Take note :)

So if there was a poll on this here forums, I'd say the order would look something like this:

Best, most voted on:

1. Caldari sub! For the people saying that it doesn't look Caldari I say GOOD. CCP, just take Q from your office furniture.
2. Gallente plane! I like this a lot but whats up with the balls?
3. Amarr Co-purrifer! This isn't sleek enough. You could trash this and I wouldn't care.
4. Minny WWI snow tank! Just look at the previous 6 pages for why this goes into the trash can.

ORE ship is great! So is the salvage drone.

I think ALL ships from now on should be designed by the community. Just like the Tier3 BC's. Once we have the models then CCP can slap on the polish.

EDIT: Or slap on the glitter!

Think I'll finally start flying caldari destroyers

Problem is once the ship is in the game, CCP has a history of taking years to fix such mistakes. If I was a Minny pilot, I would rather have the other 3 dessies come out this winter and wait for a better ship. Another issue is I don't think CCP see a problem here.

Because their artists are making art for themselves and how dare you question their masterpieces (exaggerated). But just look at how temperamental the guest concept artist was doing "the fans" ship. He is not a public street artist, he has his own plans, his own ideas, and not working for others concepts.
Bohn asks for ideas, and if the artist didn't hear what he had in mind, he continued on with his own idea anyway.

Whats funny is how Bohn talks a lot about how a good concept artist gives up creative power to have others in the department like 3d artists, game designers etc to give an influence in design. Which was shown being struggled against every step of the way in the panel.

Apparently game designers were not in the loop for the MWD bonused WWII brick.

Based on the CCP Art Director's response in the other thread it appears that we're stuck with the "snow plow brick" destroyer. Blech. I'll stick with the Thrasher or fly the Caldari U-Boat. Thank goodness for being cross-trained.

You let a bunch of us down with this one, CCP.

Minnie really feels like it missing it's tail.
Really, idea is not bad, but something is missing here.
A tail would be nice, or at least wing would be okay. But nothing... nah, it's ugly like this.

Gallente is so so.
Caldari is really nice
Amarr is too close from coercer, but well I love the coercer skin, so it's okay.
Mining frigate is nice.

The main problem with this line of thought is: these machines were not intentionally ugly. They were state-of-the-art, bleeding-edge designs meant to solve combat problems. They look old-fashioned to us because we're looking back after a century of technological improvement. The American A-10 Warthog is a famously "ugly" plane, but it's appearance has a utilitarian purpose: it is basically a plane fuselage built around a huge autocannon, with lots of armor underneath.

Now, in the EVE universe, the Minmatar design ethos (fast, hard-hitting, flexible, fairly lightly armored) would argue against a ship designed like this. A "flying brick" would not appeal to the Minmatar shipwrights or designers, nor would it be in line with their doctrine. (Unless they hired the same Minmatar shipwright who designed the hull for the Rupture. Maybe he has some dirt on the Minmatar government, and they have to throw him a contract every now and then to keep him quiet.)