Ships & Modules

If they can release t3 frigates without obsoleting the current line of frigates i'd welcome them.

But they cant

I wouldn't mind T3 Frigates but hey what about T3 Battleships? Pretty please?

^^ Pretty much this, but to iterate expand on it…

EVE does not need any new ships whatsoever. None. Going down that road is just a waste of effort.

What it needed is new roles, where space might be made for new ships. Hell, it's pretty much always about the roles, and that is where any kind of addition pretty much must start. Without roles to fill, any new ship will either immediately fall into the tier-1 cruiser/frigate category of uselessness, or they will push some other ship into that category — end result, one ship added, one ship (effectively) removed, zero net increase in ships.

As it happens, we already have tons of ships that have no useful roles, and fixing that issue would immediately add maybe 20-30 ships to the pool of stuff we see flying around.

For instance, compare T3 with ORE Industrials. The Noctis was given a very specific role and could be designed to fill that role perfectly. It could be argued that it somewhat pushed the cheapfit salvage destroyers out of business, but they actually still have that particular role — they are cheap (and fast, for situations where you can't rely on those bonused tractors). The T3 ships, on the other hand, have no roles. So what happened was that they either pushed other ships out of the way (hello Tengu) or they were considered subpar and not worth it compared to the traditional alternatives (hello Legion, and even Proteus).

In keeping with the 'roles over ships' point;

The above fix is unnecessary and manually firing defenders has been the foremost reason (imo) no one ever uses them as it is a contradiction to how all other missiles work (in game). If a ship can fit a missile launcher, it can load defenders, that should not be changed. What should be changed is that defenders become autofiring, using the ship's maximum targeting distance (including skills/mods), the ship's signature resolution (including skills/mods) to dictate the time to auto lock-on, but the missile's maximum possible travel distance (including skills/mods/ship bonuses) to determine when the missile launcher filled with defenders begins to fire at incomming missiles. This means that every race can have multiple ships/ships classes available as a dedicated missile defense boat if they so chose.

Na. I don't agree with "there are no new ship needed" at all.

Also, T3's have one overriding role above everything else: best fleet boosters. Say what you like about a Legios offensiveness, but it's fleet boosting is REALLY welcomed by fleets. Same for the Loki with it's great bonuses of lower sig radius, better agility/speed etc. And who could pass up the Proteus' better scan res?

Ships that ARE in game and are not flown have no roles; EAFs. They seriously need fixing. Other thips like the Scythe need a different bonus than tracking links, it is one of the most ridiculous bonuses in the game.

Also, CCP have wanted more people in 0.0 space. There are lots of ways to attract people there and one part of that is new ships. For example, a capital ice miner might be handy to fuel a POS. A small corp would not want to demoralise corpies with the task of ice mining, and there is virtually no ice on the market in 0.0 anyway. So if they had something to take the pain away... Then you have corps that like to PVP. If they are new (or not) they might only want to do it in sub caps, or might not even have capital skills. So having a decent way to get ships out there or making ships available to them could be important.

And what about blue prints? Personally i find the whole experience of transporting capital BPOs around in a cheeta pretty hairy. What about a small, long range jump capable ship for that purpose?

Want to get into a cap like ship but can't be assed buying a billion isk in skill books and BPs? I personally think there is a lot of room for semi capital ships similar to Blops. Ones that are expensive, but give good rewards for users of them (less skils needed, more firepower, versatility etc).

And there's plenty of people wanting a dedicated ship transporter, something to move 6-10 assembled BSs would be hella handy.

Looking at what either discourages players or makes life hard work can show gaps in the ship lineup

A special Corvette-class would be nice - a few pods can dock in it so you can move other players (or your alts) too,
not just your pilot. Also fitted with a 30sec ECM-burst as a role bonus but no weaponry at all.

List of ships missing in EVE:

T3-Frigates alias Tactical Frigate: Should be not more powerful than an AF or EW but it should be more flexible. For example they should have many low/med/high slots but they should have a limit on how many modules can be put online at once. With this you could tactically change your ship within a few minutes to adapt to a different situations. Imagine you have a ship with 5 moduls for low, med and high slots but in total you can only have 8 modules online at the same time.

Nomadic Ships: Ships which support nomadic life style for a small set of ppl including some limited manufacturing and refining capabilities.

Shield Generator Ships: Similar to Homeworld where you can use ships to create a bubble around another ship for protection. This constellation should be able to jump together as one etc. so that you effectively can protect transport ships. Together with this change jump bridges should be removed. I want to see convoys in low-sec and 0.0!

Love this idea.

A mining ship with similar drone bay and bonuses to a navy vexor would be cool. Couldn't give it as much ore munching power as the hulk, obviously, but it'd be nice to see the miners able to fight back against marauding velators.

I would like to see a dedicated Gas Mining ship. Something that could do both the work of a covert ops ship (although not as well) as well as field a a rack of bonused gas miners.