EVE General Discussion

The Caldari just sold their Garbage-scows to the Minnmatar at dumpingprices. The Matari, creative geniuses as they are, turned these obsolete garbage-scows into lethal destroyers, by cramming power generators in the roomy cargoholds & jammed up turrets on the extended space this former Caldari hull provides them compared to the old trasher.
The extended hull surface even allows them to expand the number of heatsink fins on it!

This is my headcanon for this new trasher design and I stick with it. Yes it looks very Caldari, specially when you remove the heatsink fins and honestly, it reminds me of a spaceship version of a garbage truck....

Ive been going the tantrum #2 rpute pretty strong for several years.

I am adverse to any kind of change with anything.
So i guess i will continue with how i handle these situations the same as always...


OMFG DONT TOUCH MY ICONIC THRASHER.
WHATS NEXT CCP, GONNA MESS WITH MY RIFTER? MY MERLIN?

SLIPPERY SLOPE. JUST ASK THE INCURSUS

The Thrasher redesign doesn't look any more Caldari than existing Minmatar ships. Hurricane is angular, oh must be Caldari! Hel and Nidhogg are the same basic shape as Drake. Typhoon looks like Tengu. There is already overlap. It's probably inevitable that there is some perceived overlap since they are both hard-edged races compared to the soft edges of Gallente and Amarr. And vice versa. A lot of Amarr ships are front-heavy like the Magnate and Maller, this is a typically Gallente aesthetic. Amarr also has some shrimp ships like the Inquisitor and Tormentor to go along with Gallente's Ishtar.

The Thrasher redesign looks too junky to be Caldari, I think. It has a lot of greebles on it, which Caldari does not. It also has blocky, angular, and circular shapes. More shape variety than typical for Caldari, aiding in it's junky look.

It also doesn't fit into the bird or I-beam design language of Caldari. Though Minmatar does have some bird-ships (there's that preexisting overlap again), the new Thrasher very much fits into Minmatar's dragons and fish theme. Stabber/Vagabond (dragon), Hurricane (sawfish), various other ships with "fins". The new Thrasher kind of reminds me of the American Gar fish with it's long body and low-slung snout. Then of course the gill-like fins are similar to the Cyclone and current Thrasher. The "head" on the Thrasher redesign also somewhat resembles the "head" on the Maelstrom.

If you want Minmatar to look like a precarious hodgepodge of crap with random wires sticking out, forget it. That era is long over. It came to an end when they introduced the Hurricane. Since then Minmatar ships have been steadily solidifying. Thank goodness.