Netcraft confirms it. Pirate Rookie Frigates are on Sisi, along with a SocT-style Battlecruiser.

Pirate Frigate Screenshots:
http://imgur.com/a/yAWU6#0

Found in the market section: Ships > Special Edition Ships > Special Edition Frigates

SocT Battlecruiser:
http://i.imgur.com/4socR7Z.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/O34P6Pa.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xdHASWO.jpg

Found in the market section: Ships > Special Edition Ships > Special Edition Battlecruisers

The unique hulls still don't have prerequisites. And I can't check sisi tell late today. But it seems they are just fleshing out ship info when you look it up so it wont just say "pirate frig 6" and proper stats for ccp actors for events.

10th anniversary gifts perhaps?

On a side note:

Under Trade Goods there are 3 "Aurum Tokens" with 100, 500, and 1000 values with coin-like icons.

Loot drop ? LP Store ?

These aren't actually new ...

These aren't actually new ...

I would've noticed them previously as it's a main category designation under Trade Goods, and I've not heard discussion about it before, BUT whatever. They aren't on TQ for sure.

lol ^^ I didn't burst.

Sure they are. Trade Goods > Aurum Tokens.

58m/33m in Jita for the 1000 Aur Tokens at the moment.

Well, how about that.

I thought this was something that certain players would have made screaming hissy fits about and I heard nothing.

Oh well, learn something new every day.

Why would anyone care that CCP gave out free Aurum as one of the options for the Christmas gift?

Go bother someone else. All you ever do is ask idiotic questions and/or b**ch about literally everything. It's astounding.

This was a thread about ships and other things found on Sisi and YOU are the one making it personal. What a freakin' ego. I find it creepy that you find me so magnetically fascinating. Wanna go on a date ?

You complain about his ego, but fail to see your own.
Seriously, he posted quite normal, but you now behave like a sissy as if he touched you or something.

Your ego is far more bloated than his and the Aurum stuff above just proved it.

Try understanding that there are times when you simply do not know better.


Thanks. Now stop being annoying.

(inb4 him being even more annoying now, because his bloated ego can't handle it)

Wrong.

He has baited me before many many times in the past, and this was going straight there. There are reasons why he was banned for a while there.

But it takes always two for this.
The guy who baits the fish and the fish that can't resist to bite.

If you were the more mature person, you would have simply blocked him ... but instead, you BLAME him.
You BLAME him for biting to his bait ... does that make sense ? No !

Ignorance is Strength.

Wrong.

He has baited me before many many times in the past, and this was going straight there. There are reasons why he was banned for a while there.

Reasons which have nothing to do with you. Or this imaginary feud you seem to think we're having.

Seriously, I don't "find you magnetically fascinating." You post on GD a lot. I post on GD a lot. Of course we're going to post in the same threads a lot. The fact that you make easily rebuttable claims means that rebutting your claims is easy (tautology is tautology), so I tend to do so, especially since you tend to double down on your claims when they're challenged, regardless of their soundness.

At the risk of feeding the rumor mill to much... word on my streets is that CCP is going to expand FW to pirate factions, and that player w/ accounts 2 years old will be able to create pirate toons that in turn get these pirate rookie ships. They said they were going to do that from the start with FW... and to me this looks like what's happening here with the rookie ships.

I have been betting the Genosis would be involved with the 10th anniversary for years though. It just kind of follows. They turned the SoCT 1 frigate into the Apotheosis for the 5th... so SoCT Cruiser for the 10th... right?

They all look pretty baller, and I think the idea of a limited (but wide) issue of a competent fighting ship is an interesting choice from a market perspective.

Will it behave like the Genolution Implants where people fly and die in them regularly, or like the primae which sits in hangars doing nothing?

Is it just me or are those pirate rookie ships totally OP?

I mean... who are they gonna gank? Other rookie ships? lol!

I'd really love to be able to declare allegiance to a pirate alliance for my existing characters. I've got one in particular that should just be declared Sansha and get it over with. His standings are utterly shot with everyone else. Starting a new character could be fun too.

-Liang

I hope it's not just for older accounts, I'd really love to participate in some good pirate faction-y goodness without waiting another year.

It would be awesome if instead of getting noobships determined by your starting race, there was a little button that can give you one noob ship every half hour or so (per station). However, the noobship given to you when you press the button is determined by the owner/type of the station.

Gallente stations would give Velators. Caldari stations would give out the Ibis. Serpentis stations would give out the violator, and so on...

I've supported this idea before. The argument against this was based around the skills not being there to use frigates of other races, and their weapon systems. I'm fine with pods docking and frigates only being given if skills and standing are good enough.

This would be awesome> Is it still ingame?

Or CCP can just remove obsolete frigate skill requirements from noobships, because bonuses not depend from them anyway. Currently Styx and Echo doesn't have any of those requirements, and Hematos, Taipan, Violator have them (only because on early stage they were created as copies of existing rookie ships).
And there is no problems with weapons, because fresh rookie ships are pre-fitted with civilian gun/mining laser. It's up to pilot how to fit their ship after that.

yeah, he just got revampe in V3 graphics, but all the traditional ships for the pirate factions still exist, the Ixion, the Medusa, etc..

according to Gogela's every ship page it's been removed, and i've never seen it before anyway

according to Gogela's every ship page it's been removed, and i've never seen it before anyway

No it's still there... the ones in black are just ships that are only available to Devs. (You won't find it amongst the frigs b/c on TQ it's classified as a cruiser) You can still pull up the stats by clicking on the ship in your in-game browser. My list represents the TQ database... not SiSi

Ah i see it, just has the red crossbones and skull saying removed from database. Can't seem to pull up info in IGB either

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOoooooooooooooooooooooo..............

The Ixion has been V3'd

Please give it an Artillery/Railgun Bonus and a nice Tracking Link bonus

EDIT: Blog it was taken from

2nd EDIT: Not V3'd but just a premium client model.

that is assuming they're making it flyable. and why a hybrid bonus? and a link bonus used on logis?

Does it use projectiles? Artillery then. The link bonus is there for err because it's different and because they took it off the scythe

The Ixion has been V3'd

Please give it an Artillery/Railgun Bonus and a nice Tracking Link bonus

EDIT: Blog it was taken from

2nd EDIT: Not V3'd but just a premium client model.

I think its safe to say with 99.99% certainty that the Gnosis will be a tourney ship.
god knows what 2nd prize will be.

pirate rookie ships for 10th eve birthday pressies to the populace.

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3) The logical next iteration of faction warfare is to take it to the pirate factions. CCP has been talking about that since the inception of FW. That would be the vector for distributing pirate rookie ships. Either that or letting people choose a pirate bloodline when they create a character (also a possibility).

I wonder how that will work? Where will the pirate militias fight? Will they be at war with all the hisec empires (and thus pirate militia pilots will get shot at from the navies in hisec)? It will certainly be interesting to see!

So the pirate rookie frigates look like great orbital bombardment vessels. They only get one turret slot, but it does 100% extra damage. This could mean that they would make mean bombardments for their size.

that makes the equivalent of 2 turrets. use a destroyer

Can't you only use one turret at a time when you bombard? If you can use more, then I agree with you.

Nope you can use as much as your ship can fit, and for now, skills and damage bonuses mean nothing.

So if you fire with 6 turrets do you do 6 turrets worth of damage or one?

The damage on the ground is the same regardless of how many turrets you use or what your skills and bonuses are.

Well than that's pretty ******* broken

These look like they'll be one-time limited edition ships. I just noticed the OP found them under Limited Edition Ships folders on the test server.

Yah... but we're talking test server too. Honestly, I've been following spaceships for a while now and I honestly think there's only a few people at CCP who even know what ships go in what category. The database category's mean nothing to them. At all. One thing to note too is that there is no "market" category for rookie ships. I mean, these faction rookie ships could easilly be reclassified as frigates.

I'll give you a good example: The Apotheosis. Lets take a walk down memory lane: The model started out as the SOCT1 frigate, a ship that still exists today under the T1 frigate category. Then they issued it as a shuttle. Then they put it on the market as a frigate. Then it was a special edition frigate... a category it's still in today despite it being a shuttle and there being a "special shuttle" section for it now.

CCP just isn't concerned with labels. Maybe it'll be a one-time issue thing, maybe it won't. What I can say is that the category it's in on the test sever isn't the deciding factor. In fact... it's not a factor at all.

For that matter, in the name of "cleaning up the market" they moved non-capitals (ships that do not require nor are affected by capital skills, are able to use jump gates, are able to enter high-sec, and are able to built in high-sec) into the capital ships category, confusing countless newbies that don't know better (and even some oldbies.)

Those rookie frigates have life of 14 days or month as far as I know/was told.
So only rookie can use it or something like that.
Anyone can confirm that?

Those rookie frigates have life of 14 days or month as far as I know/was told.
So only rookie can use it or something like that.
Anyone can confirm that?