EVE General Discussion

Nicely done, Remiel. I like it.

I'm glad about the changes. Sensor array looks a lot better than any lance.

Kudos to the CCP art team. Good work.

Great video. Thanks.

More 'sci fi'? What does that even mean? Define 'sci fi' please. Is Serenity not sci fi? Or maybe it's a western... or maybe it's both. There's no rule defining what science fiction is and is not beyond a requirement for imagination, not unlike fantasy. It certainly has nothing to do with aesthetics. The new model is not 'more sci fi' at all, because both the new and old are equal parts the result of a science fiction creation.

Did you miss the bit about medieval influences or are you deliberately trying to misconstrue my post in order to cause controversy. It's pretty clear what I meant, aesthetics aside... The new models are superior in every way.
Case in point that new look dominx looks awesome and I hope it hits the servers soon.

Adapt or die etc.

The ship will fly just as good, with or without the lance.

Aesthetics are subjective. You're classification of 'superior in every way' is not shared by the majority of people on this thread, people who have been playing far longer than you. It's not just aesthetics we're talking about here either, it's iconography. What would happen if someone decided the Statue of Liberty wasn't aesthetically pleasing enough, and replaced it for one in a bikini instead?

I warped in on some guys in a belt, in my Stabber and "stopped one of three"....

He must have shot his Albatross, or something, because that guy was about to have a bad day.

I'd be the first on the bus to go and take a picture of it.

I just take the view that give it a week or two and you guys will have forgotten that the lance was even there.

On balance Eve is a better game today than it was last year and certainly better than it was five years ago. You've got to trust the devs to do the right thing.

I'm happy to keep on giving you guys bumps by disagreeing with you and there's plenty of ship designs in eve that I don't like but put up with, that Crucifier for instance which is clearly and obviously flying upside down.

I'm philosophical about it though so I take the view that as long as the models retain their 'character' when they are redesigned then I'm happy to go with it. The new crucifier looks nothing at all like it's predecessor which is why I don't like it. The new models for the Incursus/Ishkur/Enyo and blackbird retain their 'Eve character' so I'm happy to trust the devs.

I'm also not too impressed with the new condor being a fan of asymmetry and all of that, so that too is a ship that has lost some of it's character and is starting to look just like some generic sci-fi and not eve online.

It's often been said before on these boards, but I'd love to see a situation where you keep the model of the ship you buy. Older designs could then become collectors editions or people could keep on manufacturing them. The market could then decide which one is best and most popular either the incursus MK1 or the Mk2 version.

Both versions of the design could have exactly the same stats and performance, just different models.

I don't see why this can't be done.

Personally I think you'd all be better off arguing for this as opposed to trying to get CCP to drop the implementation of a ship model they've already created and are clearly proud of as an enhancement to the game that they feel outclasses the old model in every which way. If they didn't take this view, they wouldn't be deploying it.

Multiple models with the same ship stats is what we all need to be campaigning on, hell even sell them as options in the NEX store.

That would be cool and would end the threads like this that pop up whenever CCP change a ship model as everyone would get what they want.