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Wow... You guys are seriously thinking of screwing with the very fundementals of EvE like that?

You already classified the ships, AND their roles with the very category you placed them in. You did so in a decent manner, even though you need to balance them out so they'll fit into the category, and you did do a few screwups along the way (a frigate is normally larger than a destroyer in real life, but hey, who cares).

Let's run through a few examples:
"Battleship" [bat·tle·ship] - "A heavy warship with extensive armor protection and large-caliber guns."
"Battlecruiser" [bat·tle·cruis·er] - "A large warship carrying similar armament to a battleship but faster and more lightly armored."
"Destroyer" [de·stroy·er] - "A small, fast warship, esp. one equipped to attack submarines and defend fleets."
(thx google-define, you're the best)

You insist on calling vessels in EvE online "ships", and I can only conclude that the above is the image you're trying to put in my head. And that's good. It gives everybody an idea of what the ship is, what it's role is, how it's armed and if it'll handle like a brick or a feather. This is information players derive from the ship category name alone, based on pictures, movies, history lessons in school or even toys... Please stay true to your original course, or make the descision to re-name/-design the entire classification scheme...

Now, the "Megathron" is suggested to be classified as "Attack vessel - made for hit and run assault, or flanking opportunities". Now, I can tell that you have never flown a mega, not knowing how ships are layed out or how the race's normal tanking methods are like. A good mega-fit, today is blasters and plenty of armor-plates - does that spell "hit and run" to you??

Now, the different categories you want to place them in... I can see all sorts of wrong here...:
Combat ships - well, they kindda' all fit this category, right? And what exactly is a "combat ship"?
Attack vessels - the current naming suggests that there is an opposite; a "defend vessel". Attack vessel == combat ship if no "defend vessel" exists
Bombardment ships - cool, I like arty
Support vessels - name gives NO clue to what vessels in this category do, unless you add sub-categories to your sub-category. Also, is it combat-support or industrial support?
- Logistical ships
- Transport vessels
- Recon ships
- Electronic support vessels
- ... and so on ...
Industrial ships - well, you say logistical ships are in this category, but last time I checked the "Logistics" skill in EvE didn't do miners or industrialists a whole lot of good, actually, if they needed one, they'd be in combat somewhere, and it'd be a combat-ship...

Now Tiers... Tiers are good for nothing, says nothing about the ship or what it can or can't do - I'll be glad to see tiers die...

You'll remove the "Battlecruiser" skill and replace it with "[RACE] Battlecruiser" skills. That's great... You did stop to include stuff like f.ex. "Angel Cruiser" or "Sansha Carrier" too, right? I mean, to avoid MAJOR inconsistencies in your idea, already at birth?

And the skillpoint idea - what a lovely thought... I trust that you'll reimburse all my training-time on medium lasers, and the time I spent training for medium hybrids too, right? I mean, I trained medium hybrids to fly the Brutix and the Ferox and medium lasers to fly the Harbinger, and if I can no longer fly those ships, and I trained those supplementary skills for those ships.

In case the devs actually read 30 pages into threads, i'll post my opinions:

This idea would be good, IF the ships were balanced. Unfortunately, they are not. Some ships need buffs, some need boosts, but overall, all that this would result in is having ship choices restricted even more. Players will take much fewer risks flying new ships, and you'll just be stuck with the same old metagame over and over, because now when you wanna risk trying something new, you've goto deal with half a month of training.

Fix the balancing issues before you look to streamline it.

I like the idea. I just wish CCP had waited until it was thought through and soon to be tested (thoroughly) on Sisi. CCP is its own worst enemy

Then after that I did carrier IV, all the drone skills, Energy management V, energy systems operation V, tanking skills to IV, all the remote reps to IV, CET to IV, CAR to IV, JDC V (ohgod) and on and on.

Even a suicide triage fit isn't going to be THAT much quicker - you're still going to need semi-decent capacitor skills and you'll need logi V.

If this made it so that it took half the time to get into a carrier I'd be worried. But the more I think about it, the more that I think that BS V was just a hurdle, and not a particularly large one compared to all the other things you have to train to use it.

If you are changing the ships up, what about doing a selectable bonus. This will not be anywhere near as configurable as T3's, but could really mix things up turning each T1 ship into a few different ships.

For example, the Bellicose:

7.5 bonus to target painter effectiveness

Choose between:
5% bonus to Medium Projectile Rate of Fire
10% bonus to targeting range per level

The bonuses are picked when you unpackage the ship. At that point is locked into its configuration until you repackage it. This will let you guys deploy multiple ships without any changes to artwork and people will have to guess between which 2 bonuses you picked.

The above is just a crude example. I would expect CCP already has some idea on different roles. This is simple enough that a person only has to know option A, B, or even C of each ship. Its not nearly as diverse as T3s, but can turn a ship from front line to support or vice versa. It could also turn a ship into a all tank, all gank, or half and half versions.

So... My dear CCP devs.....
I can fly all races T3 cruisers...
and comandships...
with perfect leadership skills...
What am I going to loose ?

CCP Soundwave has repeatedly said you'll lose nothing. I suspect that you may lose ISK when you get podded because it'll push your total SP high enough to need a new clone type! :P

-Liang

ok now im scared whats clashing ?

Can we get a CSM rep response?

/o\ Of that list, only the Cane, Tempest, Oracle, and maaaybe the thorax and myrm depending on fittings can do anything like 'hit and run'.

Hit and run Armageddon..? The brick tank with 8 low slots? What?