Player Features and Ideas Discussion

CCP Please heed our words MORE SHIPS !!!!!!!!

Caldari Navy Drake, jarrr.

Agreed. What's the use of 1,000 different ships if only 10 of them are used by 95% of the players.

You need to say something more specific than 'CCP pls give us moar stuff'. If it's simply a case of you wanting to add ships because they'll be better than what we have now, and which cost more, then you have to consider the impact on other existing ships in the game.

What the hell are you going to do with a T3 Battleship? Use it in a wormhole? Should we add more classes of wormhole to give it something to do? It's just the same gameplay as we've got now but with more numbers on the end of everything. Plus the only place you see T2 Marauders are in highsec flown by mission runners, why do they need an even better boat?

Actually there's also the TEST Alphafleet Morale Kronos, but that's very much an exception to the rule.

Edit: Inappropriate part removed, CCP Phantom.

I think we'd better do with "equal tier" ships.

Say more ships with the same amount of slots but with different bonusses and specializations.
Think speed, weapon platform, mid/high slots, sensor strength, resist bonusses and the like.
That way we would have a range of ships that all have their roles. It's frustrating for instance that the Stabber has 2 less slots than the Rupture. With an equal amount of slots if would be a very nice alternative.

The same applies to every tier ship, most are outperformed by the (usually) highest tier ship of that class because the other tiers only have a very limited niche role, like the Maller (PvP - bait), Blackbird (PvP - cheap ECM), Osprey (intermediate mining ship). While other ships have no real role after new players have used them as an initial upgrade and are a very rare sight in EVE (most lowest tier frigs, cruisers, BC).

So I'd say make all ships a viable alternative among the same class and stop making more and more ships redundant with newer, better ships.
It would make EVE a better game.

More t3 ships sound good. I get a lot of guys going 'why are you training subsystems for one single ship?' Even worse when I have to cross-train to get tengu/loki booster alt for example.

Similar kind of idea to t3 cruisers: can flip around and specialise (or not) as pilots choose. It would take careful balancing, but it'd be nice. Along with a change to how subsystems work. Let us change them in space.

Alternatively, remove racial subsystems, and turn them into a single set of tertiary skills. And reimburse us all for our cross-training.

1500 DPS brutix hull with 90% webs and 120k ehp with slaves please.