Assembly Hall

So I have been playing eve for a few months now, my character is much older than his skill point level reflects as I was turned off at first by the steep learning curve of the game. Having been begged by friends to come back I can't help but notice a number of things that drive me absolutely batty. The first of these is ship design, while I understand that developers have children that build things with duplos or make finger paintings of space. These things belong attached to your fridge with a magnet, not thrown willy nilly into the game you are making. That being said I find the most difficult thing about eve is tailoring a ship for a mission, everyone says to switch ammunition types, tank modules, and even drones to match the mission at hand. I fly gallente ships because the few ship models that are not intolerable are actually very good. The problem here is that all of the bonuses are directly related to the racial module, a bonus to hybrid turret damage for example. I find that this prevents me from using other weapon modules, artillery for example, to their full effect when mounted on my ship. So really my questions is whats up with that? Is there some underlying game background that prevents starship captains from wiring their ship hulls with electronic components from other races? Would it actually unbalance the game if players could put weapon modules of one race on ship hulls from another without suffering a penalty? Is there any kid of idle chat about making ships customizable in some way so that players who like to enjoy the way their starship looks can have their cake and eat it too by also fitting the weapon modules with the most pleasing effects and not suffer a penalty for it? Just something for y'all to ponder. Those who feel it necessary may troll away as I will just ignore you.

Not to mention that ships that are fully and equally customization will all sport more or less the same fits and use similar tactics against one another...

as opposed to the "rochambeau game" we currently have where each ship can be fitted for certain tactics that other ships can be fitted to counter and so on and so forth.

I'm not saying ships can't have roles I just mean that ships for each race that fill essentially the same role. The tier 3 battlecruisers for example what is the underlying issue with the percentage bonus to hybrid turret damage of the Talos applying instead to all large turrets so that I could fit artillery if I wanted a more satisfying boom or the choice to choose ammunition with a different damage type on a hull that was also aesthetically pleasing? As it stands right now my options are, fit medium hybrids to the talos and throw away any advantage the talos really has in effect making it an expensive cruiser, fly a ship I dont like to get the bonus for the guns I do, or just fly it as is using the rail guns. At no point am I allowed to have my cake and eat it to. I mean I would be perfectly happy if there was a way to customize so much as a color scheme on the ship to make it more appealing. On another note, whats up with the specialized ships being the same hull as a non specialized ship with very minor changes? I mean sure a navy issue version of the ship I get but the enyo and the incursus are entirely different ships yet the only real difference in appearance is color and a minor change tot he engines. Or the vagabond? Its just a stabber with some camo paint and extra wingy bits glued on the sides? Im sure there are more examples these are just the ones I am familiar with.

Duh. Welcome to Eve - you will likely be very unhappy for the short time you are here.



That fact that you think that the only difference between the stabber and the vagabond is the paint job and a couple of frills means that you are either:

A) A troll so obvious that even other obvious trolls are calling you an obvious troll, or
B) So ill informed on the topic at hand that we can safely ignore any input you might make.

Actually they amount to the same thing.

Seriously, l2playthedamnedgamebforemakingdumbasssuggestions.

Additionally, the next time you want to use an amalgamation of words longer than my arm you can precede it with a hashtag and post it to twitter where it belongs. Your reading comprehension level is worse than my niece in kindergarten.

See now this was more helpful in dispelling my negative feelings toward ships, the flavor text fails to explain that they used the original ship as a design model, it just says so and so was paid to develop this to solve this by this. In fact the ship flavor text is very "cookie-cutter" all the way around. I just figured there would be more people that would hire some space junkies to float about in the hangar and repaint their ship if they could.

Okay... so it does say that it was based on the stabber hull and I have overlooked it completely. Don't I feel sheepish. Still the fact remains that I think there should be some method of changing a ship's appearance so that you can have a ship that both serves a specific function and is pleasing to the eye. In most cases I would settle for a 'make symmetrical' button.