Originally by: 0oO0oOoOo0o

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Originally by: MeBiatch

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Edited by: MeBiatch on 06/07/2011 19:35:33
Turns out CCP Soundwave wants to add more cap ships and high level skills:

"I think with the lack of new skills, ships etc weÆve partially neglected the veterans. There are probably a lot of players out there who havenÆt had a meaningful training goal for a very long time. IÆd like to put some more skills into the game, and possibly even cap ships. WouldnÆt necessarily have to be better caps as such, just more variety to give people some goals to work towards."

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Where do you have this quote from ? I hope it's a legit official statement and that it will be implemented, not just a thought or wish by CCP Soundwave. Anyways, realizations like this one tell me that there is still hope for EVE.

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Originally by: Tippia

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Since they're meant to be "training goals" for vets, it wouldn't make much sense to make them part of the existing ship progression, but rather start out a new one that doesn't begin with the frig→cruiser→battleship tiersà

If all they added was a new cap ship and maybe some cap-sized () modules, people would tick those off in a week or two. To give people something to actually aim for and set as a goal, they'd have to add stuff where everyone beings at square one, tier one, and there are many squares and tiers to go (and many new and odd pieces of auxiliary equipment to go with those tiers).

That would mean a seventh weapon type in S/M/L/XL sizes. A new ship role in Frig/Cruiser/BS/Cap sizes (but without really relying on those skills). And preferably a new type of role equipment of different sizes as wellà

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Originally by: Baraka Saibot

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How about fixing the balance on the existing ships instead of adding pimp crap?

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Originally by: CCP Soundwave

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This thread has some cool ideas, keep them coming guys

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Originally by: Dogma Rex

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Explorer/Science ship

This would be able to scan a system using advanced sensors arrays to locate sites and other ships without the use of probes. They would have a limited number of weapon slots with a damage bonus allowing it to accommodate salvagers and tractorbeams. It would also need large resistances to protect the ships on-board labs and factories. It could also have some bonuses to codebreaker and analysers. Maybe corporate hanger and ship maintenance bays. Also could have a 15% mass reduction ability per skill so it can enter any wormhole.
(Not sure if that makes it too powerful a ship for WH exploration, but also means that you only need one ship to do it well)

ORE Gas Mining ship

A ship with bonuses to gas mining enough said.

Smart Mines

Cloaked mines that use smartbombs to take out ships, there could be a limit to maybe up to 6 per gate and do the same kind of damage as a bomb. They donÆt re-cloak for 60seconds after use and have a variable recharge time that can be set to balance damage and rate of fire.

Escort Carrier

Orca sized ship that can deploy 5 fighters (maybe fighter bombers), and maybe have a few weapons slots, but defiantly able to work in empire.

Drifter Colony/Mobile Stations

A ship that is designed for wormhole living it can anchor its self and act as a station, it is equipped with labs, factories, refinery and reactors, allowing it to harvest and construct T3 ships and limited other items. The ship would have a 20% mass reduction per level to allow it to access even C1 wormholes. In station mode the weapons modules can be refitted and they have up to 500% damage bonus to help protect the station and similar bonus is also applied to shields and shield boosting these should work even if the owner is offline similar to a POS. In ship mode it has a limited warp speed, which makes moving it slow and it can use stargates and has a jumpdrive. It doesnÆt use fuel like a POS only for jumping it around. (yes this is to replace POS's but I would like to see that happen too, they need to be fixed )

T3 ships

More Please

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Originally by: Hungry Eyes

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u kidding me?

cuz we need more cap hot drops on small roaming HAC gangs.

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Originally by: TedStriker

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Edited by: TedStriker on 07/07/2011 17:10:15
Yes, because if this game lacks anything its Capital Ships...

damn, would you PLEASE play your game for once?

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Originally by: Vincent Gaines

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Edited by: Vincent Gaines on 07/07/2011 21:29:30

Originally by: qwijJibow

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Originally by: Vincent Gaines

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If any ship class should be designated as a capship bomber, it should be the destroyer class.

another option is the ability to hunt cloaked ships (historically destroyers were designed to hunt subs).

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ok but dont make it easy... have a special scanner for it maybe like old school prob scanning or something...
i just dont want to see a gate camp and a pining destroyer that uncloaks my arazu without any effort... want to scan me down in a ss fine... but the cloak is a gate camp killer and should stay that way...

anywho if they do add missle turret graphics it would look silly on a destroyer... thats why it would look cooler on a tier TWO bc like a drake...

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I completely agree... I love flying black ops, love bombers and recons. I posted an idea I had about a year ago but it's been lost. If I remember right it either gave only the general grid, or took an extended time. I can't recall but I agree that it shouldn't be point and click easy.

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Originally by: Dr Caymus

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Imagine a fleet of 10 Charons, each loaded with Tritanium, gracefully passing through space under the control of a single pilot!

I'd like to see a ship called the Tugboat that would enable you to undock and control multiple freighters at the same time. A couple of skills, Tugboat Command and Advanced Tugboat Command, would enable the Tugboat pilot to control one additional Freighter per level, up to a maximum of 10 Freighters. Other skill prerequisites might might include drone control and fleet management skills, as this new functionality would be a natural extension of those two current mechanics.

The Tugboat system would be a boon to industry, greatly easing the burden of moving the minerals needed to build components for all of the other cool new capital ships.

Dr Caymus
-=ATI=-

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