Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I don't think there's been any recent additions to Eve's fleets, so I had a few ideas.

- More destroyer designs with better power and tanking abilities, maybe some bonuses towards taking down frigate fleets.
- Carriers available in high sec again (the small ones)
- Troop transports (after Dust 514 release)
- Miscellaneous ships from frigate to battleship that aren't race specific (we shouldn't all have ships that are 'replicas' of our races
military)

I imagine their already working on those as we've been requesting it a while and they know they need them. As for the faction ships, I always wondered why they didn't include them.

1. One more improved destroyer would help fill the frigate/cruiser gap.
2. There is, carriers and super carriers. Carriers should be fine since they are only more powerful than a BS as far as defense.
3. I hope too.
4. That's true, but don't we deserve some personal ship classes?

*snort*
Are you trolling? What about their remote repairing bonuses? Repping up 3000 to 4500 hp every 5 seconds and able to tank around 1500 to 3000 dps doesn't seem a bit OP in high-sec to you? You know that triage only increase these stats, right?

I really would like to have something like a mini-carrier class in EVE...

Recently started playing X3, and they have a ship class which is very interesting: the military transport (TM)
It's a transport class vessel, with very, very limited cargo. A lot of regular cargo haulers go up to 8000 units, TMs go as far as 1500.
On the other end, TMs in X3 have a limited amount of turrets (say 2-5, most haulers have none or one)....
And here comes the interesting part: they can house 4 fighters. Now thats cool. There's some kind of big gap in the side of it, to dock fighters.

EVE Could totally use something like a mini-carrier class, say, a Tech 2 (or 3?!) BC Sized vessel able to launch 4, or 5 fighters.
The big problem with it is that it would break quite a lot of mechanics: those vessels would therefore be able to get used in highsec... So what about CONCORD if there's aggression? Also, it'd be easy to deploy support mini-carrier blobs in safes in nullsec.


Oh, also, we need moar destroyer classes.

You really are a bit simple, aren't you?
The remote repping power carriers are capable of is a massive force multiplier, and their defence (especially when spider tanking) would make them all but invulnerable. Carriers would become the be-all end-all of highsec warfare, much like supercaps are in null.



You obviously don't know the first thing about capitals, if you think letting carriers into highsec is balanced.

Edit: in fact, I just ran up a few rough figures in EFT.
2 Chimeras: 6,000 DPS tanked
3 Chimeras: 7,700 DPS tanked
5 Chimeras: 12,924 DPS tanked
Don't even get me started on the monstrosity that is the Archon.

5 Carriers isn't even a lot, my 15man corp have around 6 by ourselves. Can you even imagine the shitstorm you'd be unleashing by letting this sort of fleet out into hisec?

See, this is where you didn't even bother thinking ahead - one carrier isn't that bad, but as soon as you start throwing more in everything goes to hell.

Edit2: Oh yeah, and this is without even bringing triage into this. 16k DPS tank and ridiculous RR ability. Try killing anything in a fleet that has a few of those

I'm sorry this comes up as simply thought out. The thing about it is that its meant to be the flagship in my idea. Yes they can tank extraordinarly well, but you just as easily face enemy carriers as well. The whole point is to make them hard to defeat, but if you take out the drones they're just tanks without guns. Also as its high sec no one could get shot without a war dec. Speaking of which, if you know the enemy has carriers, either make sure you have them or run. If nothing else, they could always implement a one carrier per user or per corp rule in high sec.

This is all very true, but I do wish high sec had some sort of capital ship besides battleships. The way supers seem to have been designed make me question if the capital ship system needs rebooting or not. Numbers and power are a force to be reckoned with, but tactics and abilities should be more important than "Hey! I have one more dreadnought than you! The rest of your fleet is pointless next to me!"

It doesn't need them per say, I'd just like to see a ship that's used more as a command ship and only available in limited numbers.

Ah, now on those old ships, yes, we do have some crappers. That's why I support some form of user personal customization, however my thread is about adding what we lack. I hope CCPs fixes some of it's broken ships, but I don't count on it.

Its called an Orca, and its built to be exactly what you are looking for.