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Six new ships for summer expansion

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Frostys Virpio
State War Academy
Caldari State
#21 - 2014-04-25 16:28:32 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
Here's your hint:

One category provides more advanced version(s) of one of the most popular ships classes in EVE.


Pirate Dread line.
Destoya
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
#22 - 2014-04-25 16:29:38 UTC  |  Edited by: Destoya
Dracoth Simertet wrote:
CCP Fozzie wrote:
Here's your hint:


One category provides more advanced version(s) of one of the most popular ships classes in EVE.


Pirate Battlecruisers!

o7
Drac


There's 6 pirate races now, so it would either be an incomplete set which would be odd, or more likely be something different

I was initially thinking a reveal of the 2 prize ships for this year's AT (blackbird and condor), as well as command ship destroyers, but that doesnt fit with Fozzie's hint either so vov. Considering the content of summer's patch, a T2 version of the Orca, new variants of the mining barges, and the prize ships are also an idea.
Bagehi
Science and Trade Institute
Caldari State
#23 - 2014-04-25 16:31:32 UTC
Altaen wrote:
Harvey James wrote:
CCP Fozzie wrote:
Here's your hint:

The ships each fall into one of three categories.

One category will be fairly low impact for most players but still represent cool addition(s) to the game that I think many players will enjoy seeing.
One category fill a void that we've wanted to cover for quite a while.
One category provides more advanced version(s) of one of the most popular ships classes in EVE.



the last point sounds like a T2 battlecruiser/


That implies BCs are popular anymore. That, and there are already T2 BCs.

Might be pirate BCs. I'm really curious about that "void comment" though. Because I've heard some interesting things about "ship voids" from various CCP types. Soundwave claimed, at one point, that there was a void in the form of a capital-class interdictor.
HVAC Repairman
Hedion University
Amarr Empire
#24 - 2014-04-25 16:32:04 UTC
Abrazzar
Vardaugas Family
#25 - 2014-04-25 16:32:48 UTC
A T2 Venture, a T2 Orca and 4 Empire faction Freighters.

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New Mining Mechanics
Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#26 - 2014-04-25 16:35:03 UTC
Pirate barges.

Member of CSM9 and CSM10.
Bienator II
madmen of the skies
#27 - 2014-04-25 16:41:04 UTC
catalyst with 16 highslots but nothing else?

how to fix eve: 1) remove ECM 2) rename dampeners to ECM 3) add new anti-drone ewar for caldari 4) give offgrid boosters ongrid combat value
Nalelmir Ahashion
Industrial Management and Engineering
Mouth Trumpet Cavalry
#28 - 2014-04-25 16:42:20 UTC
Sugar Kyle wrote:
Pirate barges.


Make it happen.
Now.
Sugar Kyle
Middle Ground
#29 - 2014-04-25 16:49:19 UTC
Nalelmir Ahashion wrote:
Sugar Kyle wrote:
Pirate barges.


Make it happen.
Now.


But then Concord be hating for you riding dirty. They'd have to be banned from high sec for bling mining.

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Kaeda Maxwell
Stay Frosty.
A Band Apart.
#30 - 2014-04-25 16:49:47 UTC
Assault Dessies. Because it would make me happy and I m feeling selfish today. Pirate
Altrue
Exploration Frontier inc
Tactical-Retreat
#31 - 2014-04-25 16:50:57 UTC  |  Edited by: Altrue
Edit : A new pirate faction Caldari / Minmatar composed of the rogue caldari that were hunted for the live events.

Faction BCs? (Most likely, but dissapointing because no real opportunity to fly them, will be too expensive!)

Pirate Destroyer?

T2 logi frigates?

T2 Destroyer-stealth-bombers?

T3 frigates/BC?

T2 orca with jump drive?
or T2 industrial ship with jump drive?
T2 shuttle with jump drive? Lol

T2 BC that are not command ships?

T2 BS heavy interdictor?

T2 logi destroyer?

T1/T2 Exploration destroyer?

Faction Destoyers?

BATTLE-ORCA!!!!!!!TwistedTwistedTwistedTwistedTwisted

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John Henke
Decompression Services
#32 - 2014-04-25 16:51:34 UTC
I would gess:

T3 ORE ship
a new Minmatar-Caldari missilebased Piraterace
Echo Mande
#33 - 2014-04-25 16:53:22 UTC  |  Edited by: Echo Mande
T2 specialist logistics battleships
redone transports (blockade runners and DSTs) and T2 Orca

Wallet remarks everywhere
Kyt Thrace
Lightspeed Enterprises
Goonswarm Federation
#34 - 2014-04-25 16:56:38 UTC
CCP Fozzie wrote:
Here's your hint:

One category provides more advanced version(s) of one of the most popular ships classes in EVE.


Look at it like this.

T2 Frigates: Assault, Covert Ops, Electronic Attack, Interceptors

T2 Destroyers: Interdictors

T2 Cruisers: Heavy Assault, Heavy Interdiction, Logistics, Recon

T2 Battlecruisers: Command

T2 Battleships: Black Ops, Marauders

Looking at this list both T2 Destroyers & T2 Battlecruisers need more advanced versions. Nice to see at least one more T2 Battleship version too.

So with CCP Fozzie's statement about being most popular ship class, I would say we get more T2 Battlecruisers versions.

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Escobar Slim III
YOLOSWAGHASHTAGDOLLARBILLZSWIMMINGPOOLICECREAMS
#35 - 2014-04-25 17:00:16 UTC
I truly believe that one of the ships will fully be a destroyer ship that is better than a tech 1 and better than a tech 2 like a sayber but doesn't do combat fully but instead is like a mini command ship for on the grid links and that is okay because not everone has a map but the ship will be coool and in gangs perhaps at all?

The second ship might be nice if it was for a ship that was like a frigate but not a frigate like a mian combat frigate but maybe it could do covert ops and can also do 100% infinite points on farm workers in the dungeons and at the same time reduces farming.

The third ship might be a minning barge more advanced of the friagte type but not a venture but bigger. I can't specualte too much but I think if it was it would be nice.

The number four ship could be a pirate battlecruiser with like spikes and sharp bits maybe a bit like a dramiel but not a dramiel if that makes sense?

I don't know what the other two will be.
Beofryn Sedorak
#36 - 2014-04-25 17:00:59 UTC  |  Edited by: Beofryn Sedorak
My speculations:

CCP Fozzie wrote:
One category will be fairly low impact for most players but still represent cool addition(s) to the game that I think many players will enjoy seeing.
One category fill a void that we've wanted to cover for quite a while.
One category provides more advanced version(s) of one of the most popular ships classes in EVE.



CCP has mentioned that they would really like to add a missile based [pirate] faction to the game. (3 ships filling the "void")

There's already a t2 model and a name (Prospect) for an "Advanced version(s) of.." the venture (1 or 2 ships)

As for the low impact additions, I'm a bit stumped. If my previously stated speculations were to be correct they only leave room for 1 or 2 other ships which leads me to believe they would be best suited in the ORE faction as to not upset the "Balance" of ships across factions and would fit nicely with the industry theme of the expansion.

My other speculation is the Warbarge for the EVE/Dust link, But unless it's going to be a single ship instead of faction based variants, it doesn't fit in with my main speculations.
Berluth Luthian
Sebiestor Tribe
Minmatar Republic
#37 - 2014-04-25 17:02:01 UTC
Black Ops destroyers or BCs?
Jai Valentine
Aliastra
Gallente Federation
#38 - 2014-04-25 17:03:15 UTC
Category 1: two alliance tournament prize ships, Serpentis, we had Minmatar, Gallente, Caldari, Amarr, Angel.

Given Angels are the Minmatar primary pirate faction I posit Serpentis will be next.

Category 2: ?? Just two ships? Not a clue, would love to see T3 battleships but that would be 4.

Category 3: two different T2 mining frigates, probably gas and mining variants.
Xuixien
Solar Winds Security Solutions
#39 - 2014-04-25 17:13:14 UTC
Last Wolf wrote:
Tech 1 Destroyers that can use medium weapons, and tech 2 destroyers than can use command links would be nice.


I've been thinking about this since I did FW years ago - squad command destroyers. Each destroyer can fit 2-3 links and only boosts one attribute (Amarr boost Armor, Minmatar boost Speed, Gallente boost Interdiction and Caldari boost Shield, as an example).

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Destoya
Habitual Euthanasia
Pandemic Legion
#40 - 2014-04-25 17:17:46 UTC
Jai Valentine wrote:
Category 1: two alliance tournament prize ships, Serpentis, we had Minmatar, Gallente, Caldari, Amarr, Angel.



The AT prize ships for this year are all but confirmed to be guristas, using condor and blackird models

http://imgur.com/a/QMLbl
http://i.imgur.com/WvZRRp9.jpg

Note the placeholder model for a T2 Venture (Prospect) as well as skinned versions of all the ORE ships.