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Posted - 2010.12.05 04:59:00 -
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Originally by: Kyra Felann Honestly, what bugs me the most is the fact that battleships, capital ships, and even cruisers generally only fit one size of weapons instead of most fictional space ships, which have tons of weapons, point defense, etc. I can see why this is from a gameplay balance perspective, but it still bugs me. It just seems silly that a battleship would only have 5-8 large guns (plus drones). It'd be neat if they added superficial extra gunfire as an optional effect, just to make the battles look better.
I gave a lot of thought to what a spaceships game would look like if I designed it. There's a lot of differences between it and EVE, but one of the main things I thought is that you could have different size hardpoints. This opens up a lot of variety in ships. So like imagine if Battleships could fit 6 large guns, and Battlecruisers had very similar hulls but could fit 2 large guns and 10 medium guns (Or however many it would take to give them similar DPS, but at shorter range and much better chance to apply it to cruiser-sized ships). Then you refuse to give most ships drone bays (make that a ship class-defining feature), and bam! you have two ships in the same class that play radically different roles.
You could make anti-frigate ships that are bristling with small guns even though other ships the same size would have a smaller number of medium guns.
Quote: one thing that has always irked me about EvE is the frigates, they seem more like Heavy Fighters than frigates, example, look at the Condor, when i first saw that ship i assumed it would be a fighter, not a frigate. also Stealth Bombers and Interceptors need renaming, sound too much like fighters, not frigates.
The frigate name is the one that bugs me most. The most EVE Online-like game I've played is Pirates of the Burning Sea, which is kind of like EVE if it had a traditional class/level system and was set in the Caribbean. (Also, if it sucked.) In that game for most classes their endgame ships are frigates. The only bigger combat ships are rated ships of the line. (And yes I realize, pre-modern ship classes don't quite fit.)
Quote: Thinking in 3 dimensional terms here since thats how space operates.
I was personally thinking Ship of the Plane, but that sounds equally stupid. Plus, I'm not sure a plane would be as effective in 3D combat as a line was in 2D.
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