Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ehh... the ship models are designed and skinned with a certain number of hardpoints. Changing the number or placement of the hardpoints requires a significant amount of work. It's really not something you can just slap a turret on anywhere on the hull and it will work visually.

So what your asking for is new turret models and animations for a lot of modules that do not currently use them, then for CCP to reskin every ship in the game except freighters, shuttles, and the Zephyr to incorporate the new visual turret hardpoints.

TLDR: Minor change, a massive amount of work.

You would get more free information about enemy ships though (assuming that I understand this suggestion correctly, and you want physical models like the harvesters/guns for Ewar modules). I mean it's already easy enough to get a general idea of an enemy ships fit by looking at its guns, adding ewar would make a big difference I believe.

You do realize that the new turret/launcher models and missile animations, as well as reskinning the ships to include the appropriate hardpoints, was most of an expansion in of itself? Each model had to be changes and reskinned to place the new turret hardpoints, with enough hardpoints on each side to be abe to place the full number of highslots that ship was able to mount guns/tractors In?

As for why salvagers/tractors have them but not the rest, it is because both of those mods fit into the highslot mounts that were built in during the reskinning, unlike ewar, scrams, etc.

Since you are proposing that items placed in midslots should have turret mounted effects as well, each model has to be reskinned again in order in place symmetrical hardpoints for every midslot that could have a scram placed in it as well as every highslot that can have a gun/launcher/salvager in it, and manage to do so without making the smaller ships look like a ridiculous pincushion. Then new models for the modules have to be developed, new animations and visual effects for each effect, then the full round of quality control testing etc to make sure that the new modules function correctly on all the ship hulls.

Although I would like to see such content as well, the OP said it best himself: "I know this isn't a major area of importance, but I do believe it would make a minor improvement...."

With POS's and Sov, and FW, and missions in such terrible shape as they are, dedicating a majority of another biannual expansion to a small QoL and visual matter such as this is far, far down CCP's list of priorities.