Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I'm not sure if anything like this had ever been posted but if it has, well too bad, I've got to talk about this new ship class I had just thought about while getting back into EVE...

I do know what it takes to implement something of this scale which is the only reason why I don't have too much faith on this being included in one of the new releases, but here goes:

Think of having a "blank" ship, something without pre-set "Skill Bonuses".

So, where do the skill bonuses go?

You chose which of your skills to use in the ship!

For example, I love drones, so my choice of example skills would be 'Drones' and 'Drone Interfacing' these two being my two "offensive skills" I would chose Shield Management as my third and final skill as my "defensive skill".

Keep in mind that you are only able to choose any skills that are at level 5 and you only chose 3 skills. (Not including your race specific frigate skill)

So, back to the example; Choosing 'Drone Interfacing V' will add something like (10% bonus to drone damage, drone mining yield per level.) and then also having 'Drones V' it would be something like (+1 extra Drone controlled) along with 'Shield Management V' add maybe ( 5% bonus to shield capacity)

I'm thinking that the ship class would have to be frigate for both story implementation and balance. Also I'm thinking that it could be a Faction ship too since then only one hull would need to be designed. What would be new about this is that any race can use it, and then this is where the next great part comes along.

For example... The 'Attributes' of the ship will have one set-base value, but once choosing for example 'Gallante Frigate V' it will add what that race is specialized in, say for example, it will increase your armor hp and add in a drone bay.


Having this level of customization is exactly what our community needs and having it put into this kind of format is great, as it could be completely written into the storyline as being developed by a cybernetics company which connects the pilot to the ship. Also, I believe that this would be great for everyone to mess around with to see different combinations of skills to get different effects, you'll see more top speed tanks, range tanks, even electronic warfare. It will make you be able to truely customize your ship to play the role you want!!

I hope to be seeing a lot of positive replies to this idea, I'm sure everyone reading this agrees, it is balanced or can be made balanced easily by chosing which skills and what is taken from other ships Skill Bonuses.

Fly safe everyone!

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Seems interesting. I would support it, but this idea belongs in the Features and Ideads forum

No...

CCP is not happy with t3 cruisers, adding a t3 super steroids fly exactly what you do well frigate of doom wont happen.

Plus they already have the basic outline of the next 18 months or so sketched out, and that does not include spending massive resources to add original models, systems, module and fitting methods, new prereqs, and then balance it all on a massive variety of possibilities. Thank Cthulhu.

Also anyone with numbers in their corp name needs to be exiled to somewhere awful... maybe Geminate.

So you mean spend all that time they could be using to make some actual useful content on an expensive faction frig nobody will use cause it's mediocre?

Problem with this is that

A: ship crews would just become one more part of any fit, optimal effects would end up for each ship hull/use and not much would change overall.

B: Adding completely new content like ship crews, adding slots to all ships for them, working them out so none are too overpowered on any ship, and testing all the bugs out would require a good chunk of the manpower dedicated to a major expansions. Adding this would come at the expanse of something that people want a lot more, Like Module POS's, Ring Mining, increased PvE content, t2 Manufacturing rework, or Industry changes.

I certainly would like to see ship crews, but like most of everyone else in eve, there's a lot of items higher on my priority list, and I would be seriously pissed if they spent a ton of time for what is tbh, a "flavor" addition.

Wow... first off... thanks, maybe a moderator will stumble on this one soon and move it for me... I was looking for it but must not have looked hard enough... lol

OK... now the point I'm trying to get across is that this is not an "easy" frigate to be able to pilot, you have to have level 5 in which skills you pick, and where naturally, the more days it takes to learn that level 5 skill, the better the skill.

So for example, say you pick a skill that takes only 5 days or so to learn at level 5, naturally that would be a non-specific skill and offer less to the piot... Something like Drones Interfacing 5 is a 21 day skill to learn, so naturally you should get more out of it on your ship.

In the long run it is just something I thought of that was different, the way that you use the ship would be completely different from other ships when you enter it, when you enter the ship you choose which "Skill Loadout" you want to use or chose from a set of pre-chosen skills that would be balanced.

You would also need Level 5 in at least 4 different skills to be able to choose the loadouts, otherwise there would be a specific base amount of skills which will all need to be at least 5.

As for being balanced, you are pretty much making the ship into a custom T2 of your choice, if you choose to be strong in one thing, your weak against something else...

It would take a lot of extra work, as I said right off the bat, but I was just wondering what other people thought of the idea of a faction ship you can choose the skill bonuses with. I just went a lil more into detail about how it could


EDIT

Where did ship crews come in? I did not say anything about ship crews...

I agree it would take at least another year to work out everything for crews as said... you'll need to add the slot into the fitting panel somehow... which means changing the whole fitting panel... etc. etc.

I'm saying the most they have to do is make ONE spaceship model, a simple series of codes which links what the skill increases to the ships "Skill Bonuses" section. They would also need to add in the panel for when you first enter the ship, it would pop up and allow you to choose your skill loadout... it would be a different type of ship like I said



ALSO


It could be a DESTROYER!!!

Nobody talks about a t3 or new faction Destroyer...

While im sure no one uses frigates in your wonderful null-sec, they are used. I see tonnes of frigates and destroyers in FW

Moving this from General Discussion to Features and Ideas.

wow, absolutely fantastic idea^^ Love it! +1
The only downside is that it becomes to much like any other regular skill based game out there with a skill tree. Your skills that you choose to train will determine your characters abilities which is your ship. However it is already slightly like that , this will make it leaning a bit more to that effect. But limiting it two just 1 frig , cruiser and perhaps BS could be possible. Defiantly something new and innovative.

+1