EVE General Discussion

Better make every ship unique then redesign the unique ones.

Everything Caldari, starting with that frying pan: the Drake.

If yr comment refers to my entry #361 (I am not realy sure whether that indeed is the case) then there obviously exists some misunderstanding on yr part with regard to my comment: in fact it was some kind of plea of mine to introduce the Gnosis (which obviously has an artistically great shape!) as a standard vessel in EVE i.s.o some (non-qualifying?) limited edition one. (but maybe I better make some day a separate thread for the Gnosis, voting players)

By no means I stated that other ships should be re-shaped with somewhat lookalike shapes of the Gnosis. I fully concur with your statement about unique (shaped) ships!

But about this thread, well, if you ask me: pretty difficult issue at hand here (re-shaping), I mean: players from the first hour want to re-shape a lot ships since they have been looking at those ships for say approx. 6 to 10 years already(!)hahaha, whereas players of later date could well like 95% of all the ships (shapes) they encounter since those are all new to them.

I must say, I myself like almost all ships, I realy do. There is only one ship I saw (as I recall some Amarr battleship) which I disliked: the thing looks like some giant flying cockroach. But then again, there must be others who like it(?!), otherwise it would not have been introduced in the first place. Rgds

Thank you for the info, its a shame that it can't be done that way. Mainly because I like what y'all create and am looking forwards to any redesign we get. With one caveat, that the ships keep some of the original lines. Keep up the work.

Caracal and Moa are amazing designs. Same for the Condor. If anything, the Space slug should be redone, but it's just such an Iconic ship now. Maybe I'm just nostalgic but if anything I'd like to see the 'old' ships touched up, and just new models added for new ships instead. :P

i'm sure all those gallente camoflage ships will hide really well in all those jungles we have up here in SPACE
..oh wait...



i think the dominix looked quite cool BEFORE they changed the color on it, IMO the copper/dark red thing was quite nice
it does definatly not look good in GREEN

Moa (the ugliest ship in the game)
Bantam

Is that something from CCP or fan-art, because it looks like a Merlin doing the splits.

Bridges. A ship needs one. I know I'll probably catch flak for being an RPer, but if I was a ship captain I'd want to have windows, and they would need to be forward facing. Some ships this has been done very well on (Gallente Velator for example), even on larger ships like the Megathron. I don't care for the front end of the megathron, but that's completely a person preference thing, at least it has a superstructure that looks like it could have a bridge on it. But so many ships, especially the larger ones, it is impossible to tell where it is being commanded from, and it gives no sense to the scale of the ship. Are they lights or windows? On some ships it's impossible to tell because their arrangement serves no purpose.

Some ship designs appear almost like laziness. Take Caldari ships for example...being asymmetrical is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it looks like it serves a purpose. Look at the Kestrel and Heron vs the Moa and Blackbird. All four designs are asymmetrical but the heron and krestel are at least believable, and their form seems to follow function. The Moa and Blackbird seem like they have no function. As another poster put it, if they are asymmetrical at least give them balance. The Caldari being a corporate and uncaring race doesn't mean they have to look like junk. The Ferox is a prefect example of what a Caldari ship should look like...Functional, utilitarian, everything looks like it's there for a reason, yet still looks cool.

Colors. I know you try too keep with a theme, but couldn't there be a way to have color options available for ships to better fit some pilot's persona? We're not all corporate pilots. Couldn't a pirate purchase a red Rifter with shark teeth on the front?...Or a white Kestrel with racing stripes? Allowing color modification while keeping the model the same would be an easy way to incorporate individuality without too much headache. And if you want to keep most of the color "themes" as they are currently, make the color mods very exclusive/ expensive/ hard to earn. That way it wouldn't be abused, but if someone had a particular ship they loved to fly it would give them something to work for.

Edited to add: OK, now that my rant is over about what needs to be improved, I realized I never put up my vote so here goes:



REMODEL the THORAX! Please. I couldn't care less if some butt ugly ship like the Moa gets remodeled or not, it's sort of a lost cause to begin with. I want to see the Thorax remodeled because it had so much potential to be one of the best ship designs in EVE, and fell flat on its face. Get rid of the stupid pod on the undercarriage, and shorten the front section by 1/3 to 1/2 and you could have the best looking (and original) ship in the game. As it is, the space dildo is embarrassing. Someone on the EVE art department obviously has a phallic symbol fetish, and it is downright unprofessional. Its sad to have a ship that I'm embarrassed to be flying when my kids walk in the room. It's a shame that someone's name can be reported for being offensive but a ship design can't. When there are more people in the game calling your ship a "space dildo" than by the name the developers gave it...that should tell you something.

Add the Rohk to the list of "had great potential" ships. The back 1/3 is absolutely awesome. The choo-choo train front 2/3 have got to go. If I were a ship captain I'd be totally pissed off that someone welded a freight hauler to the front of my battleship.

As a pod pilot you're in ... wait for it ... a pod. You see the surrounding through camera drones, besides "windows are structural weaknesses".

Also, please change the prohecy hull.