EVE General Discussion

We're not talking about the actual shape but about changing the roles / fittings a ship uses, on the fly.

Yeah no, a fair few of us actually have. It's the only way the "flexible" role of the T3s can actually be feasibly achieved for the pricetag.

How about making my T3 look like a flying penis..


hang on...

As long as it is only out of combat and combined with sufficient drawbacks, yeah why not. You could have some kind of nanite-cloud around the ship while it is rearranging its subsystems and modules.


And as long as the spare subsystems/modules properly drop when the T3 is destroyed ...

Sometimes you have to wait for the things you love

Thank you :) I try to appeal... not wait.. I try to put off as many people as I can.

Ok well thinking about what you said and this thread made me start thinking....


Faction Tech 3 Shapeshifting Strategic Cruiser

"Blood Legion"

Cargo Bay Reprocessing Subsystem - Although this subsystem uses the same armor nano-assemblers as the Augmented Plating Subsystem, its function is entirely different.

Captives and other human beings scooped from space (in the form of Pods, both Casuleer and regular Escape Pods as well as space suited individuals) are placed into the Ante-Chamber, Long metal pins pierce their flesh through the elbows and knees and affix them to the flensing tables ready for vivisection. Their clothing is burned from their bodies with a chemical laser, set to cease once non-organic material is has been removed.

The tables are then carried carried along the corridor on a conveyor belt in extreme comfort and past murals depicting Mediterranean scenes, towards the rotating knives which begin the two hour long process of carefully and very slowly separating flesh from bone and pumps drain the fluids from the bodies and sorts them into their various categories.

The blood pours down chutes into the collection tanks and the mangled flesh slurps into a matter compressor similar to that used for making Fuel Blocks.

Using the theorised "shape-shifting" concept, the bay can be reconfigured to quickly crush and pulp the living captives into cubes if the pilot considers her ship to be in danger of being attacked by local enemies.

Subsystem Skill Bonus: 10% Cargo Bonus per level for organic matter

You think after the clamour of OP cruisers that this is ever going to happen?

I like this idea. With the proper restrictions it would also give 1-account wormhole dwellers like me a bit of extra flexibility. Wouldn't need a POS (or could go longer without one). When I first heard of t3's this is what I thought they would be anyway.

What if one of the T3 ships had to take a "fitting" subsystem for each one the other T3 wants to change? Similar to a Carrier fitting system, except you can't refit out of "fitting" subs, nor fit into them, outside a station. The "fitting" subs would also give woefully low numbers of modules and give no bonuses to anything, making that ship very vulnerable, whilst allowing your T3 gang to be much more flexible.

This way, a solo T3 ship can't screw you over, and if you find the fitting T3 then the rest are stuck. I'd see this being great for Wormholing, where the crew can "fit up" on the fitting ship, scan the system, then fit into cloak, scout, then fit into combat, and shoot.

EDIT: By each sub, I mean they'd have to take Offensive fitting, defensive fitting, prop fitting etc. if his friends wanted to refit offensive, defensive, and prop. So you could go half and half to keep some vestige of effectiveness at being a ship in your own right whilst providing some refitting.

EDIT 2: The "fitting" subs would also be very expensive, and would make the whole tactical T3 roam super-expensive because everyone needs multiple subs in cargo, along with other modules, to take advantage of it.