Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I think the forum ate my post.... ?

I know I'm late to the party, and after reading almost all of the posts I sit in the vast minority. But over the years I have seen changes proposed that have made me want to strangle CCP, but have for the most part kept my mouth shut. This one though, requires my first post to the forums.

As a drone pilot, when the myrm was first introduced I was hands down all for it. Flying the vexor, even after the it's huge nerf (max 12 drones to max 5 drones), was still my go to for many years. I have loved drone combat, even with all it's downfalls, but after flying the myrm for a while it quickly became my most hated hull, next to the Dominix. It looks nice when it's standing still, but as soon as you turn, it turns from cool monolith of death to stupid, wtf sideways wing. weaving back and forth on some god awful off axis, and the damn texture seam running down the middle make it look incomplete, ugh. My only consolation prize for a sub battleship drone hull was the Eos but it was out of reach due to skills. So, I sold the Myrm and kept flying the vexor until I could fly the Ishtar. I eventually was able to fly Eos but quickly found that it was complete suck as both a gun ship and a drone ship. I put the Eos in mothballs and went back to the Ishtar again and eventually the flying potato (Dominix) for level 4 missions.

Now that these changes are coming plus the changes to rails, I'm really looking forward to pulling the Eos out of mothballs and putting it on the field again, but as a myrm hull, HELL NO. I'll fracking reprocess it before I fly another Myrm, no matter the paint job. I may even go as far as to buy them just to reprocess them to avoid seeing them on the field.
Again, it feels like CCP is handing me a cookie as a drone pilot then slapping me in the face when I reach for it.

If CCP plans on changing the hulls anyway with new art, then don't bother changing them now. Leave the Eos as is until the new art is ready, then we will talk, and maybe I won't spend my time playing eve reprocessing every Eos I find, but if it is just a derivation of the Myrm, don't bother. Spend the time redesigning the Dominix instead which is old and just as ugly.

As far as the Nighthawk is concerned, I've loved the Ferox hull for as long as I could remember. Changing to the Drake is just rather lame. It's not that I hate the look of the drake, but on the contrary, I'm rather fond of it. But the nighthawk has always had the feeling of being a beast/brawler and the Ferox hull matches that feeling perfectly. The drake is more of a sleek, long range, kiter, which does not match the feeling of the Nighthawk at all.

With the minimitar CS and Amarr CS, I really don't care either way. I dislike the fat chicken and the Harbi hulls equally, and the Cyclone hull always felt like it was flying backwards anyway, so after flying them I sold them almost the same day.

Again, if the new hulls are going to be changed anyway with new art, don't bother changing them now with old hulls and new skins. It's not enough. If the new art is just slapping antennae or little bits to the old hulls, give the artists something else to do.

I would like to see the updated models with something like an added "Flag bridge" separate from the standard bridge. I think it would make it look like something a Fleet Commander would be flying.

Wallpapered

Tuff one to be honest.

I love the current Sleip look. But I would like to see the other command ships use the suggested hulls from Fozzie's post. SOOoo

YES please.

This is tough because I just love the Absolution model, but it would be neat to see the hulls more varied.

+1, go for it.

You get my vote Mr Obama.

Bit weird to base things off your feeling when that feeling is the polar opposite of what the ship is. I mean the nighthawk had the bonus for specifically the long range missile system and has less ehp than the drake which was always great with hams yet you thought it "felt like a brawler in comparison". Isn't that just you being weird?

Really feeling like the minority of the forum here but i am very strongly against changing the EOS model, and others for that matter.

How a ship looks does play a big part of training for a ship. And i like the EOS and hate the Myrm.
I even thought the EOS has been around longer then the Myrm.

I could be wrong here and would like someone to clarify, but i cannot recall at anytime in EVE a ship has had its model swapped for another ship. its a drastic change.

I do recall the stealth bombers got a model update - however the difference there is an entirely new and unique model was given to them.

Again, feeling very strongly about this.

Wonderful Idea. +1 Yes please!

+1 lets do it based on the drake/nighthawk change alone.