EVE General Discussion

All answers that are not “Imicus” are wrong.

Asymmetrical ships generally look ridiculous. A ship needs a reason to be asymmetrical; otherwise the design is pointlessly awkward. It is far more difficult to design the internal arrangements, thrusters, and firing arcs for asymmetrical ships, so unless it serves a specific purpose, asymmetrical models need to go. They don't look beautiful; they look silly. Some can be salvaged, like the Thorax; the overall shape is fine. The rear just needs to be reworked so both sides look the same; the differences serve no purpose.

Even the Caldari ones do not look "utilitarian"; they look like someone went out of their way to make the design pointlessly complex and structurally unsound. That briefcase the Moa is carrying looks like it would just get ripped off by a hit.

If there is an asymmetrical ship, it should serve an obvious purpose. Real-life supercarriers are asymmetrical - for a reason. It facilitates launch and recovery of aircraft. EVE asymmetrical designs look like somone just went out of their way to be nontraditional - except traditional ideas of what a ship would look like are that way because of what we think the ship would do. Form follows function.

The only asymmetrical design that really fills this standard is the Catalyst. It looks like it's wide and flat to allow its numerous guns plenty of firing arc. Asymmetrical ships should meet that standard, and there should be a lot less than there are.

As for the Dominix, it needs to be longer and sleeker, but the base design is ok. It's just too compact and looks like it's wallowing about.

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The most used reason for simatry is, that it's cost efective, both in nature and in industry.

two symetric wings can be cut the same way, one less cut to make and so one and so forth, Nature does the same thing a different curve cost more energy than two mirrored ones.

the only asymetrics you create are those that are absolutly nessasery.

the Flight deck and controle tower on a Aircraft carrier for instance (though that tower it self is quite symetric again)
and the rest of the ship is semetric again.

Now this is a game so it's not realy a must, though if that games lore describes one of the races as a ruflesly efficient race of merchants, how the hell do they come up with designs like the Moa, Blackbird, and Raven to name a few.

I'n my humble opinion Caldari ships should be symetric, with the exceptions of specialiced equipment, like the Radar on the Scorpion hull.

And I think the Leviathan should be made in the Image of the Borg Cube, max efficient :)