The Velator at Cynosural Field Theory III (140 m3 of LO), the Ibis and Reaper at Cynosural Field Theory IV (120m3 of LO), and finally, the poor Amarrian noobship the Impairor at Cynosural Field theory V.

Of course any of them can be used at lower levels with a cargo expander or two. Compared to the cost of the generator, those are essentially free.

Just think, cyno locations can be seeded with some generators and LO, and cyno toons just need to dock up in their pod, strip ship, add cargo and generator, and they're ready to go. No more hunting about for a suitable replacement ship.

i wonder about the missing neut bonus on the amarr noobship

These frigates should be capable of running level 1 missions and career agents

As a counter to all the "rookies will be confused by the role bonuses," I'd have to point out that a rookie probably won't really know what any of the bonuses do anyway, if they even realize there are bonuses at all. Rookies tend to be overwhelmed, and unless the career tutorials (not just the crash course tutorial) are being significantly changed, the noobships will only be used for 3 tutorial missions and then thrown away when they get their first free T1 ship with the career agents. Which brings up another point: why bother updating the noobships anyway, when they are only every flown for the first 30 minutes of anyone's EVE career?

:( Rookies get free ships these days. Makes me sad. I don't think new players are as attached to the noob ships as us vets are, because "back in the good ol' days" all we got was a reaper, 5,000 ISK, and a slap on the ass. And we liked it!

Basically, what I'm saying here is that I agree with mkint, and that while giving noobs better instruction on how to play is a good idea, giving them free stuff might not be.

Edit: Also, Aura used to be cool and make jokes about "thumb" rules. Now she doesn't have much personality at all.

Well just saying they wouldnt be naval editions just like Ibis is a civilian version while the egbert (a crane like waterfowl in the US) is the militarized one with matching tech 1 performance to boot. Then there could be a caldari navy Egbert you get the idea.

Then we can give all the civillian ships thier own paint schemes to detract from current miltiary standard ones such as the old gallente orange and white for the velator whiel military edition gets the standard tech 1 colors.

It would be pretty cool if the noobships can do all the tutorial missions just as well as the current T1 lineup (with noob skills), and then just not give them the freebies any more (including cutting back the isk... I understand by the end of the tutorials or into the epic arc, you should have enough isk to buy a cruiser, which sucks a big one.) As far as updating the tutorials go, do any of the responsible devs ever hang out in rookie help chat? Because it's always the same 3 questions and 2 complaints. And they are a direct result of problems with the tutorials. But I guess my beef with the tutorials is off-topic for this thread. :(

It would be pretty cool if the noobships can do all the tutorial missions just as well as the current T1 lineup (with noob skills), and then just not give them the freebies any more (including cutting back the isk... I understand by the end of the tutorials or into the epic arc, you should have enough isk to buy a cruiser, which sucks a big one.) As far as updating the tutorials go, do any of the responsible devs ever hang out in rookie help chat? Because it's always the same 3 questions and 2 complaints. And they are a direct result of problems with the tutorials. But I guess my beef with the tutorials is off-topic for this thread. :(

Count me as another voice for T2 and faction (e.g. pirate faction) rookie ships!

Also, in general I'm in favor of buffing the existing rookie ships. I don't know about the specific numbers, but Up With This Sort Of Thing.

That would be interesting to eliminate the freebies. I remember being a bit shocked that you got a Destroyer out of the tutorial.

Otherwise the noobships should probably be able to do all but the final two military missions. Those last two should still probably require the Combat Frigate and Destroyer that they give you. (Actually you can do the Destroyer mission in the combat frig if you know what you are doing, but don't think it should be compatible with the noobships.)

Well either way.

For some reason the idea of Navy Noobships really amuses me.

International safety orange noobships that go beep when moving and have STUDENT PILOT emblazoned on them also amuses (you didn't say that but what you said inspired that thought).

Nova Fox, I unironically thank you. You are the inspiration of much entertainment today.

IBIS:

Role bonuses:
20% bonus to Small Hybrid Turret optimal range
10% bonus to missile kinetic damage
30% bonus to ECM Target Jammer strength
10% bonus to shield resistances

I like that they are all useful(ish) now, but I worry about the strange role bonus. New players might look at them and not realize their bonuses won't work the same as other ships do...

EXECUTIONER:

Frigate skill bonuses: -10% to small energy turret capacitor need and +5% small energy turret damage per level
Role bonus: 80% reduction in Propulsion Jamming systems activation cost

cool you've made the velator the perfect cyno ship

IMPAIROR:
Cargo capacity: 115 (-5)

about noob frigs...

I live in 0.0 in a remote station and I have other ships in my hangar, so if I dock up CCP will never give me a noob ship, I have to travel to a nearby station were I have no ships to get one.

Can CCP put a "give one noob ship" button in each station?

to avoid abuse and accumulation, just give one if there is none in your inventory.