EVE General Discussion

Well, if they have like 400+ different ship types, it makes no sense that any amount of them is sub par and nobody uses them. In that sense, for development economy, it makes sense to balance ships out... but the price of such balancing is banality.

I recall the amusing Red Moon Rising parody and how it stated that the Gallentean carrier was a force of nature and "carriers were nor well balanced". Well, that was years ago... but then.... Gallentean doctrine is to fly ships with devastating short range firepower (blasters) and force projection through drones. So if a ship class doctrine is to project force with drones, obviously the Gallentean carrier should be a pure beast. But then, if you develop carriers for each race, well, nobody is going to fly the other carriers instead of the Gallentean "win ship".

Yet actually, the other empires wouldn't bother with carriers. Caldari would develop a carrier-sized ship with both cruise and small missiles (anti-capital and anti-everything else). Amarran would do the same with capital lasers and smaller lasers. And Minmatarr would pack together artillery and small autocannons to counter the Gallentean Carrier.

So there would be four ship classes instead of four ships of a class which only makes sense to one of the races. That makes picking a race more harsh, more meaningful. Et cetera.

The opposite is "one class fits all". And then you balance them so nobody is left behind (unless you're a special child called Phoenix). And then it turns that you can fly anything the same... and makes no difference at all as long as you fly it properly.

And you end up with a game that haves 400+ ship types... and yet feels strangely characterless.

You don't have a ingame avatar worth that name. You play using disposable anonymous junk, which performs like the rest of its class no matter the race. And the only point is blowing it and some other player's anonymous junk.

In terms of immersion and player attachment, EVE is one of the worst games ever made. And the plans are to never change that.

your video of presentation of 2nd decade collector box .. this is what we want .

Just get three Hyperspatial Velocity II rigs and it will go 3.91AU/s without implants.

Amazing how a thread about a feature that 'no-one wants' is still alive over a year later.

Well done all.

Good god, this thread got derailed beyond belief.


Only if you travel in a big ship.

Exactly.


Yep, this does look much cooler. 1.45(if it starts from the start for some reason)

Also, notice the corporate quarters (Office) UI at 1.55 with the slay table stuff. Shame that never became anything, like most of CCP's promises.

Apparently they want people to get into the game quickly and were worried about the load that rendering full bodies would put on the server. It's a lame excuse if you ask me as once characters are created they can be cached on the local client, I think CCP are still burnt over the incarna nex store and pay to win shambles.

Those guys eat ammonia-soaked rotten shark. Making sense it's not exactly a hobby in Iceland.

Event Horizon lounge is made in PlayStation Home, so probably CCP didn't do much there apart from models and textures which they already have.
And the only things you can do there is play this table stuff thingy which looks interesting and run around with your pink 'fro.