EVE General Discussion

Ooo, Ooo, OOO.

With fold out expansions to the larger ships........although I've now got visions of 15+ sheets of paper joined together for one Dreadnought... Nevermind a titan or a Citadel..........

This is a Good Thing™.

There is one thing that's always bothered me: in many of our ships, particularly the larger ones, there's all these little squares of white light all over the hull. Folks (including me) have called them windows, which implies people walking around behind them (never mind the fact that they'd be weak points in the hull — a lot of weak points). If capsuleer ships have no crew, either these things are not windows, or nobody bothered to get rid of them and the corridors and other crew oriented spaces behind them when the ship was converted for capsuleer use. The latter makes no sense, but if they aren't windows, what are they?

While it is true what you say, that pod-retrofitted frigates need less crew (in case of frigates, usually one), the most important aspect of the ship (DRONE BAY) has been completely left out.
And this is why I don't care how pretty a picture is, and don't drool over artistic skill, if it makes no sense at all. People are way too easily swayed by pretty visuals.

Basically, all ships are retrofitted to house capsules, meaning that there is plenty of maintenance and personnel space which should be otherwise covered. To my knowledge the only ship type that has been "designed for capsuleers" were T3 ships.

So in order to make a fitting, proper, plausible cross-section of ANY ship other than T3, you have to first create the regular crew version of it, and then slap the capsuleer parts on top of it, including possibly more gear to fill some of the areas which are meant to be used by crew. Not all of that space. Because else it's becoming a nightmare for maintenance.

It's not about realism. It's about plausibility in the given setting. I appreciate the artwork and the artist's skillful hand at delivering cross-sections... but it's not really representative of how the ship with the capsule came to be.

Edit: I just got back from shopping, and had the usual issue of not enough space in the backpack. This made me realize something.
Where is the cargo space area located in the ship? See, this is another problem I'm having with artistic cross-sections. They only show parts. Either do everything in layers, or don't bother at all.

y... y... Y'all got anymore of dem artwerks??

MOAR

I would like a package in book form (bonus points if the books are lore-titled I.E. "roden shipyards general systems guide") and also individual posters of various ship models.

Come on CCP, posters of these are way cheaper than actual ship models for my desk.

Agreed. I would dearly love to see this brought to life. Heck, just some posters would be nice.

The idea behind capsuleers is to significantly reduce the requirement for ship crews and subsequently reduce the number of lives lost in warfare as a result. When you push F1 to fire your guns, you're not relaying an order to a weapons officer to open fire, you are activating them with 'your mind' in the game, as if the ship itself were your body and the guns your limbs. This way, there is no delay between the command to fire, and the actual firing of the guns, making capsuleer-commanded ships so much more superior to crewed ships. You should really read into the lore about it. If I knew where to look I'd point you at it but you might have to Google a bit yourself.

I love this kind of crap and have been wanting more of it since forever.

Why of course. Action figures are dolls, too.

Only 28 of the frigates though, I hope the Astero will be included! It must be!