Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ok, maybe the subject line is not enough space to describe what I'm aiming for.

So, as many of you seasoned pvpers know, by watching a ship's effects, you can guess their fit. Shield vs armor, tracking computers vs sebos, rails and blasters, so on and so forth etc. Why not take it a step further?

Make your fit influence the way the ship looks. For example, an armor tanked rifter would look beeffier, with thicker plates, or even the exposed cross beams to be covered up. For shields, maybe have "emiter blocks" sit around the hull of the ship, so a rifter with a shield tank would look pretty much the same as it does now, with a few extra "somethings" to indicate it being a shield tank. Not sure how you would interpret hull, since it's not supposed to be visible because of the armor.

For MWD vs AB, make the bells on the thrusters bigger or longer for either.

Stuff like that. Any thoughts?

inb4 performance issues, because T3 blobs work just fine.

Edit: While I'm at it. Make turrets for things like target painters, remote reps and energy xfers/syphons/neuts. I can see some objection to the target painter, since it's a med slot module, but having the lazor sphere around the ship doesn't make much sence to me anyway.

Also, cap modules, like injectors, boosters and batteries, be represented on the hull by some sort of battery pack, or a glowy reactor for injectors. stuff like that.

I would rather see all T2, Navy, and Pirate ships have unique hulls. Not to mention the incredible amount of work it would take to make all ships have multiple appearances.

As true as that is, you are assuming that once one variant of a T3 is loaded, then all matching ones are also loaded. You are also picturing the worst case scenario, in which a huge fleet is using each possible combination on each ship.

If the current blob trends remain the same with this change, it wouldn't be much different than loading a current T3 blob.

Ok, so you mean to tell me that the game's code and server structure is fit to have every single existing toon on the same grid, each having a uniquely fit ship, each doing something different?

I can't imagine this implementation having any more impact on server performance than refitting a fleet of T3s off a carier or whatever that floating module is called.

It's generally advisable that you know what you're talking about before you actually post. Helps people take you seriously when proposing radical ideas(which are usually glazed over by CCP).

I think this comes under the heading of nice to have but......

More immersive graphics are always nice, and why not if the costs that have to be paid justify it.

There are a lot of considerations, no need for me or others to make a list which just becomes a critic of what is a fine and nice Idea, we can have nice things and that is a good and positive concept.

Hopefully CCP will see your request and factor it in with their future plans. But there are many conflicting demands for their time and resources.

It will be nice if one day in the future you can see your proposal come to life and you can think that you made EvE a little better with your ideas.

But do not be disappointed if it will not be for a while.

this would be awesome to see, but announcing that they were going to do this would cause their art team to commit suicide...

Have you ever tried 3D modeling? because it's hard, and when I say it's hard, I mean HOLY FREAKING CRAP is it hard.

I seem to remember a dev post about the art team wanting to strangle someone because they added a turret to the rifter or something... IIRC it's also why the naglfar only has 2 turrets still. Even finding new places to put turrets or "effect generators" on current models is freaking difficult without them looking kludged on.

If you think the V3 project took a long time, or wondered why missile launchers were a main expansion feature, now you know why. If they started today, they might be done before my buddy's newborn gets out of high school, and good luck asking for any new ships/skins/models/effects in the mean time.