EVE General Discussion

If it's the future, and stuff like artificially generated gravity is possible, this is just practical. Humans are used to an up-and-down orientation, so having a layout with a top and bottom makes more sense, so long as an artificial gravity system is present. Anything else would be much more cumbersome and unnecessarily difficult to navigate.

That just means that there's even less need for a common up and down, since it's completely arbitrary and available as yet another option for space optimization.

Anyway, Marius' point is correct: there are no symmetrical ships in EVE just like there are very few symmetrical vehicles on Earth. Hell, not even our spaceships today are symmetrical, because it actually just causes problems. For instance, this is not a symmetrical design — in fact, it's entire ability to function relies on asymmetry. this and this is how it would look if it were symmetric.

Next thing you know you'll start complaining about how the megathron in asymmetrical.

And at that point we'll have to flay you alive.

Think harder.

I know, I know, it makes your head hurt, but just do it.

the cube is far better-looking

the sphere doesn't make any sense, because,

Here's a little clue as to understanding ship design in Eve:

Look at the sensor types. Magnetometric, radar, lidar, gravimetric.... look at what these systems are and what race uses them, and you will see the ship design around that.

Someone at CCP really did their homework.

Because Iceland.

Try flying Amarr.
80% of their ships are quite symmetric.

Every ship should be a homogeneous sphere.

To OP:

Some ship hulls used throughout New Eden can be quite offensive if you you're not accustomed to asymmetric shapes. It's like experiencing your first song from The Dillinger Escape Plan or Converge after listening only to popular music all the time. If your mind is intrigued by things it does not understand right away, you will stay and learn to understand. I fly some ships that i found ugly at first (e.g. Dominix). But you have to understand: these things protect you from harm when you're in space. Learn to respect them.

Fortunately, Eve is quite a strategic and (important in this case) tactical oriented MMO. If you're like me, you will spend most of your time in space zoomed out and in tactical mode anyway. Your ship will then be nothing more than a perfectly symmetrical dot.

Well, I see that it is a bit "slowpoke" type of message to be seen by a topic starter, but I'd like to say there are quite many ships with the onboard symmetry. (My favourite Maelstrom surely is one of them, anyway )

Count almost every capital, BS, BC, ORE ships, industrial, shuttle and destroyer hulls, also add all 4 t3 cruiser and unique pirate hulls. The champions of non-symmetric and bizarre designs are gallente, second to none. Well, gallenteans even made a totally symmetric dominix to look strange just because they wanted to. (but the talos and algos are a pleasure to observe)

Here is a "But" incoming. There are people who like their non-symmetric ships in New Eden. They really exist. Unbelievable, but they do. Tastes differ. And both we and the devs have to take notice of their likings, I believe. (Oh, may be the devs themselves are one of these?)

Another point of view is from people who put the efficiency in front of their list of needs, those will fly any ship, even if it looks like a ball or some UFO until it annihilates everything in its way. Sad but true. I hope the OP will never become one of those, otherwise he/she will find oneself inside a nightmare of some sort which will frighten npc and make them suicide or warp out because of just being within its aura of awful design

My single wish is that may be one day (at least during next decade) we will face a moa design which I will not want to jettison and shoot at immediately after seeing it in my hangar by an accident. Just like they made the stabber hull to look awesome.

End of the line. Fly safe.