Adel Sorra
Gallente
Steel Beasts
Cold Steel Alliance
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Posted - 2007.10.14 00:44:00 -
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 Originally by: Orgust Brem
Molecular-Based Researching
Able to research stronger materials, which can be used for higher Armor or lighter structure for better warp. It ends up in different material costs in the BP. You need for example special componentes for the construction of the ship. Or you need less materials so the ship is faster and easier to produce, but it's not that strong (mass production).
It's nearly the same like Rigs but for BPs. Maybe the Calibration points should lower, while using molecular-based components. Or maybe it needs a rig-slot. Target here would be to have a standard-BP, which has automatically something like a rig but you don't have to produce and fit it in another production way.
You can use moon mining for gaining the resources of the components, research them and construct them. Or maybe using the materials allready on market.
Branding
Originally by: Assens Letta
what about branding ? with a small degree of costumization and branding i think a couple of venues would be possible and even interesting. the branding process could be done by adding some kind of information on the descrition of the ship, like in the bottom. a second degree of branding could then be added by costumizing the ship, for instance:
Build by - [corp or char name here]
Enhanced by - [corp or char name here]
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I like this idea. The manufacturer, the researcher (idea above) and so on should be seen while buying the item. I personally don't want to buy a ship from someone called "As* Enterprises" or "Legolas123" 
Your idea gives me an idea . it may be nothing new doh, i was just browsing a little in this thread for the first time.
It's very simple. you can use rigs when building a ship (the already existing ones, ore maybe a new set of predefined bonuses). Because they're build-in instead of hacked in somehow later they have a smaller drawback or a better bonus. but they would eat up rig-slots and calibration.
Now you'd have cheap mass-production ships and specialisations, which, of course, would need some kind of branding .
The good thing about it is that it is very simple. It does use existing stuff and adds new functionality. Rigs are already in the game, and a lot of houres of tweaking has be invested in fitting them in savely.
I don't think ccp is ever going to let us tweak the attributes of ships and equipment ourselfes, because it would be much to complex. Not the functionality to do that, but the outcome of it. Its very likely within the millions of resulting settings some would be extreamly overpowerd. And a game with a bad balance will die (exept everyone enjoys to fly the same few nber-ships..).
In my head it works perfectly, so feel free to point out what i missed
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