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Eihnlazer
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#1 - 2015-04-07 09:21:24 UTC
Probably been thought up before but what if we had a rig that took up 200 calibration or so and when installed in your ship added a single Mid or Low slot?
ChromeStriker
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#2 - 2015-04-07 09:49:10 UTC
No because balance....

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Karak Bol
Low-Sec Survival Ltd.
#3 - 2015-04-07 10:01:31 UTC
Can´t see a use for that. If you need Fitting, use a fitting Rig, if you need damage, use a damage rig, if you need tank... and so forth. Most Modules are better than the Rigs, so it would be a no brainer, especially on T2 ships to just use more slots. Now, if we say 400 calibration for one slot, that could work as it wouldn´t be worth it most of the time.
Jacob Holland
Weyland-Vulcan Industries
#4 - 2015-04-07 12:27:08 UTC
There once was a rig which provided an additional midslot.

It was never released to Tranquility for two reasons...

First there was an issue with ships with more than eight slots.

Second (but not in importance) they were simply crazily overpowered.
Eihnlazer
Native Freshfood
Minmatar Republic
#5 - 2015-04-07 22:22:31 UTC
I guess so, i just really like the idea of more customization on things other than T3 cruisers.
Tsukino Stareine
Garoun Investment Bank
Gallente Federation
#6 - 2015-04-08 00:01:20 UTC
Eihnlazer wrote:
Probably been thought up before but what if we had a rig that took up 200 calibration or so and when installed in your ship added a single Mid or Low slot?


it would need to take up 350 calibration and exchange one slot for another for it to even be remotely balanced.

even then it would still be stupid.

Art of Explosions
Dato Koppla
Spaghetti Militia
#7 - 2015-04-08 03:13:23 UTC
Tsukino Stareine wrote:
Eihnlazer wrote:
Probably been thought up before but what if we had a rig that took up 200 calibration or so and when installed in your ship added a single Mid or Low slot?


it would need to take up 350 calibration and exchange one slot for another for it to even be remotely balanced.

even then it would still be stupid.


This, it is just far too powerful to give an extra slot to a ship as they are balanced around their slot layout and also as mentioned modules tend to give bigger bonuses than rigs.
Lost Greybeard
Drunken Yordles
#8 - 2015-04-08 10:16:39 UTC
Tsukino Stareine wrote:

it would need to take up 350 calibration and exchange one slot for another for it to even be remotely balanced.

even then it would still be stupid.


Came here to say basically this. Shifting a slot from one level to another could be reasonably balanced, if the rig also removed any ability to use other rigs.

Honestly if they're going to do flexibility rigs, though, I'd go the other way and have a 400 cal rig that changes one type of weapon bonus to another instead. There are already ships with whatever slot layout you want, you just have to train another race, but if you want your shield boat to use drones you currently have to buy an expensive pirate boat. It would solve a lot of "that would be a great ship, if only I could put rails on it" type of personal preference issues.

I think they won't use flexibility mods ever, though, being able to tell the limitations of a ship just by knowing its make is too big a part of the pvp metagame.
Sobaan Tali
Caldari Quick Reaction Force
#9 - 2015-04-08 21:15:03 UTC  |  Edited by: Sobaan Tali
I honestly think you guys purposely don't use the search function just so someone has to point it out. Top right, dammit.

This has been asked about many times. Read my lips...IT'S...A...BAD...IDEA! It would set virtually every balancing change CCP has ever made on virtually any ship with a rig slot and cal back to the Stone Age. Hell, the very word "balance" would be thrown out the freakin window on the top floor of the building.

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Baali Tekitsu
AQUILA INC
#10 - 2015-04-09 08:40:10 UTC
If it made it so you can trade mids for lows and vice versa a whole bunch of trash ships might become viable, like the muninn for example, or the zealot.

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