EVE General Discussion

I personally like the Minmatar designs, though the color scheme could use a makeover. They are very drab. It is also not like the ships are any cheaper then the other empires. Also the cost of paint compared to the cost of a ship is nothing. "They don't have the resources to paint their ships" was never a realistic bit of lore for me. Just taking the ever illogical real world, I can paint several rooms in my house for the cost of 50 rounds of ammo for my 44mag, even the cheap AK-47 ammo can pay for a can of paint in 100 rounds.

Of course ideally they would allow us to customize the color schemes of our ships. Not sure how the EVE engine would handle it, but it has been common in some games for quite a while.

I also want to point out that I don't think metals would rust in space. After all rust is the process of oxidization and there isn't a whole lot of oxygen in space to react with, if anything they would be rusty on the inside, not the outside. Then you also have to take into consideration that tritanium and pyrite (which I assume would make up the majority of the shell) would not necessarily rust to brown. After all silver and copper both rust to green (as well as their common alloys) and some metals don't really rust at all (don't think titanium or aluminum can even rust). If you look at some of the most colorful natural features on earth, with vibrant reds and greens and blues, those are often oxidizations of other mineral types.

More industrial designs like the Venture please, that ship is beautiful.

With the remade Apoc (which now looks like an armourtank ) and the likes (Mega, Pest, "the not so new scorp", Stabber, Bombers and rookieships, the Maller) pretty much all other ships now look - bland.
Like the Mach
Rokh
the Spacepotatoe...
the Geddon
the Baddon
and so on and so forth.
The level of detail just feels so vastly different. If we could get an overhaul of all of them at once that'd be awesome. Estimated date: when the core code is overhauled and replaced (very SOON(tm) ).


All Pirate ships but the Rattle
and the Bhaalgorn
and the Vindi
Pirate BS with unique hulls:
Nightmares and Machariels

On that note: I'd rather fly around in an Echo then a Reaper - ugh. Actually leave the Echo untouched. And the Minmatar shuttle.

I'll try explaining my objection to a domi change in another way. So you guys who want to change it are like guys that like Bugatti's, Ferrari's and Zonda's. When someone asks you what you would do to a '32 Ford Coupe you observe it's old and want to turn it into a supercar. However, my point is that the deuce coupe is a classic, and that "old" look IS cool. If the roads were filled with Bugatti's and nothing else, they'd be less cool.

Im not sure if you have one in your area, but please seek an appointment with an opthamologist ASAP.

Personally I hate the ships that aren't symmetrical. Having said that there is a difference between not symmetrical and just butt-ugly, cockeyed, or plain stupid in design. Imicus, Slasher, Vigil, Burst, Crucifier, Moa, Bellicose, Drake (that would be so much more appealing if its was symmetrical). I am not going to address ships I haven't flown or looked at flying.

Only thing about the Mega I don't like is the lights point down the slope of the front scoops. I wish they pointed forward, and the Mega would be damn-near perfect.

Also, CCP BunnyVirus, where are those drone forcefields for the drone ships we were promised? (Dragoon, Arbitrator, Thorax etc. don't have them, when they clearly have holes for the drone bays. Also, can we get some visible drone bays on the drone ships (Vexor, Ishtar, Tristan, Dominix)?)

carcal looks shieeety indeed and needs a whole new design in my opinion.

I'd be also a fan of improving t1 battleships, not a complete overhaul but maybe few details here and there (priority on dominix and typhoon)
The bhaalgorn also needs a new model with some winmatar influence on its design. Same goes for gurista ships.

Not realy, although what you say concerning physics is correct, the most important reason to make something symetric, is cost/budget.

Symetric design is cheaper. Design, production and assembly will go faster, in larger batches ect ect, which will enlarge the return on investment.

That is, in the end, the reason why most real life designs are symetric, the only time you see asymetric designs is when they serve a specific purpose (stearing wheel in a car) or when it's art.

The blackbird is the obvious choice here - it's fine to have asymmetry as part of the hull design but the blackbird is one half spaceship and one half plumbing.