Player Features and Ideas Discussion

the only way we can expect more tech 3 ships any year soon, is if we beg and nag for them.

we are more likely to get tech 3 frigates than other classes. as they would be easier to fit into the games balance than larger ships. which also means they would be more likely to get more than 4 different types of module per subsystem.

their relative cheapness would make them more accessible to new players. (CCP has focused on catering the games new content to be accessible to noobs.)

with tech 3 frigates, it would be possible to have PvP tournaments that involve hundreds of players. where tech 3 cruisers are too expensive for most players to be interested using them for that.

players might view them as customizable remote control cars.

or might use them as a type of appearance-configurable rich mans shuttle.
which would make players that much less likely to get randomly podded in HiSec, by someone who just wanted to see if the target had good implants.

and if tech 3 frigates were implemented, than that would be a bragaining/nagging chip, in favor of asking for additional tech 3 ships.


there are many reasons to huge numbers of players, to ask CCP for tech 3 frigates.
tech 3 frigates alone could reasonably justify an entire expansion from CCP, all by themself.




CCP has been encouraging more players to move into wormhole space anyway.
which is where their building materials would be found.



i ask you as one floating chunk of space-metal to another !
to please beg and plead and nag for tech 3 frigates !
as loud an as often as possible !

Do we?

I can't really see a good place for them at the moment.

Even with the (incredibly loose) plans CCP had for them – low cost, no SP loss — they'd still not be for newbies, nor would they be particularly interesting to old players since that entire segment is shock full of ships that will do what such a frigate can offer, only better and for less ISK.

Uh.

Agreed, I think...



Talk about destroying the market for all other frigates...

I think the problems you describe with the current T3 cruisers are going to be fully resolved when the rebalancing is done.

They can't even balance T3 cruisers decently and more T3 would create more problems than they would solve. We don't need more stuff we need better balanced stuff so more current ships become viable.

One frig to rule them all...

Tech 3's are broken

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People make suggestions like this without really thinking through for the big picture...

Yes, you want T3 Frings, we don't.

We want a fix for existing ships, so every ship get a viable role and not OP compared to others within the role class.