EVE General Discussion

Some time ago I decided that I wanted to play with drones more than I currently did – so aside from buffing my drone skills a little, the big question was should I train Gallente ships? But I realized I could get a decent drone bay with a Typhoon and fly drones immediately. This is a long way of saying that almost every race/ship can currently use almost every weapon system – and this is boring. If I want to put lasers on Minmatar, I can. If I want to put projectile on Caldari, I can. What’s the point when almost every race/ship can use almost every weapon system?

It would be so much more interesting (especially on the tactics level) if only one race could use a given type of weapon system, i.e. lasers can’t be put on anything but Amarr, projectiles only on Minmatar, missiles only on Caldari, and hybrids only on Gallente. Drones can be handled in a similar manner but slightly differently – Gallente are the only race with ‘large’ drone bays, other races are limited to drone bays with at most 5 drones and maybe also limited by drone size, i.e. only heavy drones on Battleships. Carriers and Super Carriers are a little tougher if you limit them to only Gallente – but this only means you give at least one of the races a specialized capital ship that can counter a carrier – whatz wrong with a very fast high accuracy projectile capital? And there’s no reason that all races should be able to counter a carrier/super-carrier – maybe only Amarr can, and only Minmatar can counter that Amarr specialized ship, and only Caldari can counter ….. I’m not trying to promote/advocate Gallente or drones – I can’t even fly Gallente. I am promoting the idea that each race have a very distinctive superior in a given type of weapon system. Maybe Amarr BS need to be able to lauch bombs and everyone else is limited to frigates, maybe Minmatar BS need to be able to do EW while the others can’t or can only do it poorly.

I grant you that this would make a radical change in game-play, but the idea is to make each race much more specialized in terms of offensive weapons, and to counter one race you need to fly a specific other race, or to significantly complement a race you need to fly a specific third race. This is not Factional Warfare but it is more Role Playing – and if you’re not role-playing why have more than one race?

But I can hear the howls of protest now …. but I’ve trained so much that I wouldn’t be able use anymore … but there’s no reason to do that … but, but, but. There’s always a reason to not do something, but I think there’s a darn good reason to make each race very distinctive.

So allow a one-time skill point reallocation. Got a boat-load of SP in ships for all 4 races but none of them are outstanding? Keep it that way it you want – or de-allocate some/all your SP and get instant-skill-point-allocation-learning for a very customized character in one or two races. Want to specialize in one particular type of game/role-play but don’t want to start from scratch to train frigate-to-battleship for a particular race to get there? One time de-allocate and reallocate your SP.

That’s my opinion, what’s yours?

Put lasers on your typhoon and take it out for a fight. Come back and tell me again that the fitting restrictions you want aren't already in place.

I am NOT advocating racial prejudice or discrimination - I am advocating racial differences

sandbox, ccp has given us tools to do most anything in game so why change that. also hybrid are down to 2 parts rails are caldari and blasters are gallente look up the invention list for this info.

also against reallocation of skill points you and i made our choises now we have to live with it

If they had set up the original lore so it was 4 on 4 and not 2 on 2 this would have worked. Due to lore and strengths and weakness based on enemies that don't exsist we get to play mix and match or omni skill our chars. What most people end up doing.

This is amazing, I can see you put a huge amount of thought, common sense and critical thinking into this post.

Because I can put taco sauce one my sushi that's why.
If your phoon can get the same DPS out of drones as a domi can then may be Ill buy your idea, but it can't so I wont.

You're guilt of fitting anything I think I still have the fitting for your combat Procurer.

I thought of this too, but I was thinking a little further. Caldari can only pilot Caldari ships, Amarr only Amarr ships, etc etc etc...

Little too late for both my argument and yours, move on...

Removes the possibility of variety, creativity, and decision-making just to reinforce a system that effectively already exists.

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