Player Features and Ideas Discussion

The Epithal is an industrial ship specialized in hauling planetary commodities. It has a standard cargo hold of ~550m3.

I propose this be changed to 1000m3 so that a planetary command center can fit in without the need to load it full of cargo expanders. With expanders then a pilot could fit up to two centres. The cargo volume is still so low that it should not affect any other industrial ships niche advantages.

Thank you.

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Or, we could make it so that command centers can go into the special hold. Then there would be no need to change the ship.

Seeing as command centres are part of their own special little category, i imagine this will be very easy to do.

Please share with your friends to build support.

Cargohold: 1,140m3

Problem solved. Eve is about choices and the consequences of those choices. If you chose to carry command centres in a hauler that is specialised for carrying other things, then you have the consequence of having to fit 3 expanded cargohold mods (or 2 T2 rigs and 1 expanded cargohold).

Or, maybe, make Warp Core Stabilizers heavily penalize the capacity of the specialized cargo holds in addition to the scan resolution penalties.

Reduce the command centers volume from 1000 to 200m3. Is probably the easiest thing to fix. Nothing else is effected, no stat change on the ship needs to happen.

Just reduce the volume of the center.

There's always the ever popular (among the more 'discerning' capsuleers) of the above idea. I think that it's got a lot of potential to boost the Epithal producers universe-wide. THAT, my friends, is an objective worth working towards.

Let's all join hands and sing the song of our people, "DESTROY, DESTROY DESTROY"

Why does there need to be change? Use another of the plethora of haulers available to you. Who sets up a planet and then immediately needs to haul 60K of materials?

Cargo expanders have a penalty that affects a main stat useful on the ships using them. A lock time penalty on an epithal (and almost EVERY other t1 industrial) does not affect them in the slightest. Which is why you see nothing but stabbed epithals running about. It doesn't force any choices on the part of the epithal pilot at all.

Four stabs and still 60k m3 pi space. Perfect.

There needs to be some hard choice there; risk vs reward.
Give stabs either a specialized cargo hold penalty or, maybe, an agility penalty. Come to think of it the agility penalty might be better applied considering some of the other broken uses stabs get put to (button farmers for example).