How about introducing the Typhoon, which has already been promised by CCP?

Tornado?

Pretty sure the phoon is already in game.

I don't think we really need any new ships. We already have plenty of ships. Just fix some of the balance issues with the ships we already DO have, and ensure that every ship has a viable role (no more "useless" ships), and I'd be plenty happy.

Those two and fix/rebalance everything else, make command links only work on grid, and things would be peachy.

T3 frigates

Frikkin ship hauler that is highsec capable and has enough ship maintenance bay for battleships.

Try the orca.

Pretty please

I don't think we really need any new ships. We already have plenty of ships. Just fix some of the balance issues with the ships we already DO have, and ensure that every ship has a viable role (no more "useless" ships), and I'd be plenty happy.

I don't think we really need any new ships. We already have plenty of ships. Just fix some of the balance issues with the ships we already DO have, and ensure that every ship has a viable role (no more "useless" ships), and I'd be plenty happy.

Or say a destroyer that shoots down incoming missiles for the entire fleet like a phalanx cannon we see nowadays.

In keeping with the 'roles over ships' point;

The above fix is unnecessary and manually firing defenders has been the foremost reason (imo) no one ever uses them as it is a contradiction to how all other missiles work (in game). If a ship can fit a missile launcher, it can load defenders, that should not be changed. What should be changed is that defenders become autofiring, using the ship's maximum targeting distance (including skills/mods), the ship's signature resolution (including skills/mods) to dictate the time to auto lock-on, but the missile's maximum possible travel distance (including skills/mods/ship bonuses) to determine when the missile launcher filled with defenders begins to fire at incomming missiles. This means that every race can have multiple ships/ships classes available as a dedicated missile defense boat if they so chose.

^^ Pretty much this, but to iterate expand on itGǪ

EVE does not need any new ships whatsoever. None. Going down that road is just a waste of effort.

What it needed is new roles, where space might be made for new ships. Hell, it's pretty much always about the roles, and that is where any kind of addition pretty much must start. Without roles to fill, any new ship will either immediately fall into the tier-1 cruiser/frigate category of uselessness, or they will push some other ship into that category GÇö end result, one ship added, one ship (effectively) removed, zero net increase in ships.

As it happens, we already have tons of ships that have no useful roles, and fixing that issue would immediately add maybe 20-30 ships to the pool of stuff we see flying around.

For instance, compare T3 with ORE Industrials. The Noctis was given a very specific role and could be designed to fill that role perfectly. It could be argued that it somewhat pushed the cheapfit salvage destroyers out of business, but they actually still have that particular role GÇö they are cheap (and fast, for situations where you can't rely on those bonused tractors). The T3 ships, on the other hand, have no roles. So what happened was that they either pushed other ships out of the way (hello Tengu) or they were considered subpar and not worth it compared to the traditional alternatives (hello Legion, and even Proteus).

Defensive ships that have 0 offensive capabilities.

If they can release t3 frigates without obsoleting the current line of frigates i'd welcome them.

But they cant

Watching a falcon and 2 Caracal Navy Issues nullify an entire drake blob would be fun. Epic lulz for sure. Which is why it won't happen. A true catch 22.

Medium sized T1 industrial with 200,000 m3 cargo space and able to transport rigged ships.

Love this idea.

Shield Generator Ships: Similar to Homeworld where you can use ships to create a bubble around another ship for protection. This constellation should be able to jump together as one etc. so that you effectively can protect transport ships. Together with this change jump bridges should be removed. I want to see convoys in low-sec and 0.0!

I look at CS as the next tier BC, so canGÇÖt see the point of adding to the class. Why not have the developers decide on a model change. Carthum Conglomerate suddenly announces the Damnation hull is to be replaced by the harbinger one. Line of thinking is make the stronger standard BC the weaker CS as far as an offensive role is concerned


Absolution GÇô Prophecy hull
Damnation GÇô Harbinger hull

Nighthawk GÇô Ferox hull
Vulture GÇô Drake hull

Astarte GÇô Brutix hull
Eon GÇô Myrmidon hull

Sleipnir GÇô Cyclone hull
Claymore GÇô Hurricane hull

Attributes stay the same. Cosmetic change that effectively adds 4 new ships. Simples

Defensive ships that have 0 offensive capabilities. Rather think of a ship like shield frigates or drones that linked together in homeworld to provide a shield around the fleet or a ship. Not logi which is active support.

Or say a cruiser that shoots down incoming missiles for the entire fleet like a phalanx cannon we see nowadays.

Actually one of the really cool ships in the homeworld series have a repellent drive that pushed ships out to a certain radius. (Think of pushing frigates or small ships outside tackle range)

The problem is, the Abso is basically a beefy Harbinger, The Nighthawk is a beefy Drake, The Sleipnir is more like an insanely tanky Hurricane. (with regards to primary weapons systems and ship bonuses)

I would think a Siege Monitor class vessel designed to bombard POSes would make sense, especially as a way to threaten highsec towers. These ships would be geared towards dealing a large quantity of DPS to stationary targets, but be significantly handicapped so as to need careful support.

You mean like what dreads where intended for?

The problem is, the Abso is basically a beefy Harbinger, The Nighthawk is a beefy Drake, The Sleipnir is more like an insanely tanky Hurricane. (with regards to primary weapons systems and ship bonuses)

I love his pairings for exactly that reason. Everyone associates the tier 2 hulls with pwnmobiles. Relegating them to gang boosters while letting the tier 1 hulls have some fun in actual combat is actually quite awesome.

Besides which, if anyone touched my NH or my Sleipnir I would be very seriously upset.

Oh, this is probably a good time to mention that reverting to the old Helios would also make me unspeakably happy.

Somthing I have always thought we needed was a destroyer hull that would operate like the destroyer escorts of WW2. Sub hunters. They would have a new module based off the bubble launcher that would be a decloaker with a range of 15/20 km. They would also get a modified probe launcher that would get them on grid with a cloaked target and at all lvl 5s (have 2 or 3 skills that affect this launcher/probe) get them within 30km of a cloaked target. They would still need to drop their probes to decloak the target and if said target was accually active they could easily get away.

Granted this looks and probably is a massive anti-cloakyfag whine. Though historicly I have been one of those that are on the side of "cloakyfagging is part of the game, run around with escorts in 0.0 or goto another system etc."

Of course this thing shouldn't be as strong as it's interdictor counterpart (too many electronics in the hull or somthing).

Needs alot of thinking through but I do think it is somthing that this game could use.

Clearly we need T3-Supercarriers, because supercarriers are not overpowered enough, we need to go completely over the top

Watching a falcon and 2 Caracal Navy Issues nullify an entire drake blob would be fun. Epic lulz for sure. Which is why it won't happen. A true catch 22.