Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Please, swap the iteron ship models so they match their proper order in size/cargo.
Currend Iteron MkIV model as the new Iteron MkI, MkI to MkII, MkII to MkIII and MkIII to MKIV
All capsuleers affected by OCD would be very grateful for that.
Please

To iterate on that, I was thinking of a ship that could carry a fitted destroyer and half a dozen (however many T1 Frig's the starter missions reward) fitted frigates, but in enough safety that that starter player doesn't pee himself moving those ships. Make it gankable by a single Tornado, so folks don't move their billion+ ISK faction BS's around, but with a bit more flexibility than "Oh, you're a new player with a handful of ships? Better get training on an Orca".

CCP Rise,

why not just make the remaining haulers Ore ships?

Ore could purchase the rights to the ships and modify them as they see fit. That would remove any accusations of "inequality" among the races.

IIRC when the real world financial crisis happened China purchased the Hummer brand. Something similar could be put into the lore where due to constant wars the empires were forced to sell off some of their excess ship models.

Doing this would allow you to get as creative as you like with the ships and also would give a reason why the ships were so drastically remodeled; they are owned by an entirely different corp that wants to take them in a different direction.

almost every pvp pilot trains sooner or later all racial cruisers to lv 5 and all 4 racial frigates to lv 5 as well as battlecruisers and battleships.

why cant the caldari for example have the badger2 with way stronger tank options then all other races (iam not talking about 3000ehp more then the others, i mean a real difference)
and for example the gallente with their 5 haulers have lots of specialist haulers but as trade of have lesser cargo and tank on the large cargo hauler and lesser speed/agility on the speed hauler.
and lets give amarr the large m3 hauler with the largest possible m3 numbers
and make the minmatar speed hauler the one with the highest agility and highest cargo option(for a quick hauler)


the goal should be that people want to cross train industrials. not because their own race industrialsare ****, but because the other races offer so cool options to solve problems.

I guess, some kind of "PoS Builder" Industrial would also be appreciated.
An Hauler, capable of carrying the whole PoS Stuff in one haul.
Even as an new T1 + T2 line (T2 line could have an Jump Drive)
Currently, Rorquals do this job. Which speaks for the creativity of the community.
But is a bit overdressed.

Make some "Tanker", specialised PoS Fueling, for those poor souls filling that stuff.
Fast, agile ships.


A ship hauler would find it use, and would be an juicy target.

Make some "defensible" ships. Something like the Procurer Mining Barge, only with guns.


And don't give every option to every race.
PvP guys skill all those racial frig, cruiser, bc skills to do different duties.
The Industrial player should also get their share of flying different races. ^^

you think an ecm bonus would save a hauler from being blapped, you would be quite mistaken. Also, if you were drawing that from my post regarding bait haulers, they wouldnt have any considerable hold to speak of, there point would be just to trick an enemy into combat instead of a quick indy gank.

The best we can get is an Itty 5 with about 38k space, not counting the container trick to get 45k out of it.

That's a huge gap between a transport and a freighter which gets you upwards of 800k.

The only thing that fills that gap is the Orca. It's really great for station moves. It also comes with a high price and lots of training just to fly it.

I'd like to see a new line of transports that let us haul anywhere from 100-500k. That would make us forget about the Iterons pretty quickly. Specialization could happen here as well.

I like the idea of a specialized fuel hauler or tanker for POS fueling. Make it cloaky without penalty for using limited cloaking device.

Buff the Primae for more cargo space and also make it cloaky like above, ideal for lowsec PI. Allow it to bypass the CO for transfers.

I also agree that this would be the most reasonable thing to do. It nicely removes the racial inequality and provides some depth to the range of haulers. you could adjust and rename the ORE frigate skill to apply to the new ORE haulers as well as the venture, which would give more meaning to actually training that skill.

Then give them each a specialized bay, ore, gas, ice, PI or salvage (maybe even clones if you ever flesh out the dust eve integration )

I think this is my favorite thing posted by a dev in the past year on the forums.

Smuggling.


Perhaps smuggling is a profession that could have massive iteration. The first step would be to give a reason to actually smuggle stuff.

First. We need to look at why smuggling occurs in real life and the types of goods that get smuggled.

The way I see it is that people smuggle legal and illegal items both for profit. Illegal items are smuggled because they are illegal and must be smuggled. Legal items are smuggled to avoid taxes and fees.

Perhaps legal items in EvE could start to have an import/export tax levied on them when you undock from a station.
When you undock You would receive a pop up message that says "the export tax of the items in your cargo hold is x amount. Do you wish to declare these items?"
If you say yes you pay the tax and undock. If you say no there is a chance you get caught smuggling. If caught you get hit with a suspect flag. Pew pew commences in the undock.
This would put a niche into market trading as smugglers could gain more profit from moving small volumes tax free. Also people who want to be a "Hans Solo" type get to play at it.
The export tax would be a good isk sink.

A smuggling hauler ship would have a very low chance at getting caught, almost zero. A normal hauler would have a high chance.

Certain items would be export tax exempt for example ammo and charges.

If customs catches you with contraband they flag you as a suspect. Pew pew!


Any thoughts?