Zabby Gabby
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Posted - 2010.05.23 09:57:00 -
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Currently, every single faction ship is geared towards combat. This includes (Forgive me if I miss some out):
Imperial Navy Slicer/Augoror/Omen/Armageddon/Apocalypse Caldari Navy Hookbill/Osprey/Caracal/Scorpion/Raven Gallente Navy Comet/Exequror/Vexor/Dominix/Megathron
Plus loads of others, including faction pirate ships. Thats 40+ faction ships just for combat.
So why not give Industrialists some love?
Faction Industrial Ships
"Imperial Navy Sigil"
"Caldari Navy Badger"
"Gallente Navy Iteron"
"Mammoth Fleet Issue"
As with all faction ships- they would be slightly better at their job that their regular counterparts, while they wouldnot be as good at T2, but to be honest, there are many industrialists who don't have the ability to fly Transport Ships.
Bonuses could be, but not limited to;
1) Much better defensive abilities (Such as being able to fit multiple turrets/launchers, which would make sense, considering that they are military versions)
2) Lower Signature radius (Make it harder to probe down)
3) Increased cargo space
Faction Scanning Ships
"Imperial Navy Magnate"
"Caldari Navy Heron"
"Gallente Navy Imicus"
"Probe Fleet Issue"
The Empires' Navy need prober/Scouts too! Once again, these would get better bonuses than their T1 counterparts, while not being as awesome as Covert Ops. they would not be able to use Covert Ops cloaks either.
Bonuses could include things such as:
1) Increased Scan Probe strength
2) Increased range of Directional Scanner
3) Increased warp speed
4) Bonuses to using non-Covert Ops cloaking devices
I would also have thought up a faction mining ship, but considering that Mining barges are already "faction", as they are classified as "ORE" Ships, its a bit hard. Possibly if CCP introduced an elite division of ORE? (The l33t Mining division) Who can supply 'faction' Mining barges.
"Retriver ORE Issue"
Bonuses could be something like:
1) Double the amount of Strip miners fitted, but with only about a third to half of the cargohold.
2) Better ability to tank/survive the next Hulkageddon
3) Or, remove all highslots, but give it a much larger drone bay, and a large bonuses to mining drone yield (So that it would harvest the same, if not more ore than its T1 counterpart)
Just some random concepts
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