EVE General Discussion

Hello. I played eve for about 4 months 2 years ago. Then I came back a few months ago and have gotten back into it. It's a wonderful game with wonderful ships. The ships are what brought me to this game. So many amazing looks and designs to chose from.

When I came back I realized a few ships looked different. Over the last couple months I've heard news of more ships getting redesigns as time goes. I think this is a wonderful idea. Like a car, as tike goes on they change styles of how the car looks and even performs. Many people will love the changes. Some ships that they don't really like the looks of May change for the better.

But at the same time, there are people who love their ships. The way they look could have been a huge selling going for them. (I know it is for some of my ships) and the redesigns coming are scary. I seen multiple people talking about how the ship or ships they like have changed or will be changing.


So I came to the idea of(sorry if this has been thought of) with eve being like a "real world" on its own. Why not have something similar to the skins, in the form of ships designs? I think the most recent one I saw was the coming thrasher change? Why not have the ability to pick which design you want to use? Be able to change between the 2.

Or.

If a car company changed a car, everyone who owned one wouldn't just wake up to find their car magically transformed. Why should ships? They could launch the "new" ship, with the redesign. And have the ones remaining in space already stay the same. As time goes old designs would obviously be destroyed in pve/pvp. Raising the rarity of older designs, like a classic car.

If they wanted they could even change the ones that are "on the market" to the new designs. While the ones owned by players not on the market would retain the old styles.

I'm sure there's probably a few ditfrways this could be implemented . But this could be just an idea of how to proceed with redesigns in the future.

Yes I can always see my ship... Why would you be zoomed all the way out?

Because that's the only way to know what's going on around you. Playing zoomed in means you have zero awareness of your current situation as the overview is a crappy inteltool.

*Wow this new keyboard on this new phone is potato laxative.

I guess since I'm not pvp/lowsec it doesn't bother me lol. I've never had a reason to be zoomed out

Oh I've been ganked . Doesn't bother me. I'll still take seeing my ship over being zoomed out lol. If I get blown up I just buy a new one

Can't tell if that's sarcasm or sincerity but I'll keep playing

Overview works fine enough for my purposes. Being a mostly solo PvE pilot I'm either in places where no players ships should be on grid but my own or moving in such a way that if I'm on grid long enough for the locations of those around me to matter I'm doing something wrong.

On topic:

Between client size bloating, near doubling of the number of skins that need updates for future rendering changes like the recent V5++ update, further slowing of skin releases by way of having more models to skin, and in the case of the latter idea concerns with constantly upsetting ship markets by turning multiple ships into limited edition items, I can't see the idea of maintaining 2 sets of assets becoming a reality.

Ah sounds all good to me then.

/me hugs and rubs you.

You... Didn't really ready what I had to say. This was about multiple designs and the possibility of having multiple designs for the same ship.

The thrasher comment was an example from a thread I saw. I don't care for the thrasher either way personally lol.

Please read posts before posting and making yourself look ignorant

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