EVE General Discussion

They should add Indians

the most possible would be the jovians, but as i said in another jovian related thread. it would need a complete series of expansions in order to implement it, why?

1. lack of ships (they have like 5 hulls atm, 2 frigates, a cruiser, an industrial and a battleship if i can remember)

2. the current races have covered all the combat and defense niches, lasers, drones, missiles, hybrid weapons; shield tanking, armor tanking, with combinations depending on the faction also.

3. jovian space is practically surrounded by null sec, it would need a change in security in order to connect it with the other empires, or use a jump bridge system for this.

4. too much resources and CCP hasn't even finished to balance the current races.

this 4 points are what keep the development of another race at bay.

form the 4 types of tanking we could have either hull tanking (no joking here) or speed tanking (i think minmatar already covers this one)

as for weapons, the only weapon system i can think that hasnt been converted to a main form of damage are smartbombs, again, no joking, imagine a ship that launchs several of these energy balls or something.

the other option would be making them jack of all trades, like the gnosis allow them to be either tank or shield with all the weapon systems avaliable. but comes the issue that new players would have to learn aditional skills. so the first concepts is the more likely.

few people use smartbombs anyway, the other issue is the type of EWAR, each race has its own dedicated EWAR style, CCP would have to think in another type of it.

Sound, even high energy "ultrasound", require that gas atoms or molecules be in very close proximity to one another. Sound propagates through the vibrations of gas atoms or molecules to bump into each other, thus transmitting the "sound energy" from the source to - wherever the sound wave radiates to.

While there are gas atoms and molecules in space, they are too far apart from one another for this propagation to occur.

(I said gas atoms or molecules, but the same propagation of sound can occur in liquids and solids, but it's still the same process. The atoms or molecules bump into one another to transmit the sound energy.)

Jovians. Nuff said.

I volunteer to be the first Jovian PC.

Eh, the four races with a 5th 'lore' race is fine. No need for more to add into the already troublesome task of balancing what's already on the table.

But.. just to play along...

I think some sort of truly 'alien' race would be interesting. Jove are just super modified humans anyway. Perhaps their ship philosophy could be organic based, where even the 'armor' self-reps over time just like shields (their construction can be similar to T3's in that they use more minerals and gases in addition to the normal ores).

As for weapon system, I'd guess something along the lines of energy would suffice. Amarr already cover that, although it's too laser-y still. Perhaps this race has something more akin to blasters with pure plasma energies, but farther range. Or maybe they also use organic substances and fire globs of corrosive/radioactive fluids and goo that eat away at shields and armor. For ewar, I'd imagine they could implement some sort of anti-support fields on others, causing reps and energy transfers from ally ships to be reduced. If enough could be focused, a target would not be receiving reps at all. haha. I can imagine that'd royally p**s some people off.

But again, the 4 (playable) races is enough. We don't need more balance whine and skill time sinks.

Why would uniting the factions be a good thing? What makes EVE interesting is the bickering and infighting among the various factions (and factions within factions) for control/power/wealth/pride/petty reasons.

Dresden-style evil unicorns!

Rogue Drone infested capsuleers. Think Bane from The Matrix Revolutions.

The storyteller in me really likes this. New alliances, new enemies, bitter betrayals, hard fought victories... everything that makes EVE sing.

Bad idea