Zeba
Minmatar
Honourable East India Trading Company
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Posted - 2009.09.16 22:35:00 -
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 Originally by: patrick726
CCP when are we going to see some faction Battlecruisers...there are faction cruisers,frigs,and BS.
Originally by: CCP Ytterbium
We are already working on revamping 20 faction ships while adding 4 new navy battleships for Dominion; the changes are not even finalized and yet you are still thirsty for more?   
Ummm, let me think for a sec... YES!
Originally by: CCP Ytterbium
Ok then, let me teach you how NPC corporations build navy ships.
You will need:
* A standard battlecruiser hull
* A 5cm long paint brush
* A paint bucket filled with navy color of choice
* A small rock pick
* A small wood gavel
First, move your favorite battlecruiser in your hangar like that. See how I do it? Good. Now, take the small rock pick and wood gavel, and start carving an extra low/med/high-slot in the hull like this. Be careful, otherwise you may end cutting that antenna there, and you really don't want that to happen unless you want to wait twenty minutes to lock something with your ship.
When you have finished adding the slot of your choice, press and hold your left mouse bouton with one hand, and with the other, using the 5cm long paint brush, slowly start applying the camouflage skin theme of the chosen Empire Navy to the hull. Be gentle, otherwise you may overlap that bridge window or launch bay I point here and there, and may not be authorized to pilot the vessel, unless you previously obtained permit A 38 from CONCORD.
Do not release the left mouse button and do not spin the ship until the paintjob is dry, otherwise you are going to ruin it. It usually takes a few days before you can safely release the button, so be prepared.
When the paint is dry, don't forget the race navy decals on this spot here. Zoom out and voila! You are now the first owner of this magnificent <insert Battlecruiser name here> Navy Issue ship.
Well CCP paints its ships a bit differently I hear.  You already have the art assets 99% done in the form of the current tier 2 hulls and textures so adding some faction paint is as easy as loading up the textures and retinting the relevant areas. With the labor and rl isk intensive work now done in a relative flash you can now grab a dev and have him look at the navy bc's role and how it should be fitted with relevant bonuses. As your ship balance team is already worked up and ready to gogogo with all the sprints you are doing they should already have a good idea of how to insert it into the current lineup of ships. Just have them do a quick brainstorm session(if there havent already been several;) and make a dedicated thread in the test server forums asking for feedback with no promises it will make it into Dominion but as a definite release for one of the incremental patchs a month or so down the line or as part of the next expansion. Its doable. 
Originally by: CCP Ytterbium
You can now safely take it into the nearest friendly low-security system and tell everyone in local to come have a look at your excellent craftmanship skills; with little luck the natives will happily celebrate the birth of your new vessel with plenty of explosive fireworks.
Enjoy  .
You make this sound like a bad thing? This is why it needs to be a fw only navy ship as the buzz over the new ships is starting to get really loud as more and more ingame players are clued in by us forum whoors. Many of us are running missions like crazy to stock up on the new ships not to sell but the use. Its awesome tbh as I have never been around players so excited about an expansion in all my years of eve. Adding in the long wanted navy bc would simply make heads explode.
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