It's easy to criticize, but it's more difficult to think of better alternatives. What better alternative would you suggest?

Confirming all new players should blindly fly the Gnosis. It's got the capacity for practically everything, therefore it's a newbie ship!

Two completely different phrases from one word? Son, only the English language is that warped and you know it.

No, not for that reason - it's a newbie ship because it's not the best ship for the exploration role (strategic cruisers probably are) and it requires no skill points to pilot. Hence it fits into the category of 'newbie ship'.

Can't say i support the idea of an exploration battleship, but the general idea of recieving a unique ship that can only be found in the collectors edition (and not simply realised again under a different format at a later date) would certainly go a long way to encourage me to spend cash on it. As it stands, its quite alot of currency for what you actually get.

Eh no. It's better than strategic cruisers because it can actually do exploration in highsec, and newbies will not be able to make good use of it because they don't have the skills and equipment required.

The gnosis doesn't require any skill points to fly.

GǪand if you fly it without any skill points, it does nothing. To use it as an exploration ship, you need to fit it with exploration equipment for which you need exploration skills, and to find anything, you need to get those skills up.

It's a battlecruiser. Battlecruiser are not newbie ships, no matter how few SP you need in order to activate one.

I don't think an exploration BS is a good idea. But I do think special items available ingame or otherwise should not be available afterwards or via another release.

But it's a moot point because you can fly the Gnosis (to whatever standard) on your first day playing Eve. Whereas it would take a person a few weeks to get the skills to even sit in a strategic cruiser - and even longer to earn the ISK to buy one (most people anyway).

GǪand in doing so, you've transited from a much better (for vets and newbies alike) exploration ship to a much worse one. Fancy that. The only thing that could potentially be worse would be an exploration battleship.

Not that T3 are veteran ships anyway GÇö after all, when they came out, people derided them for the silly low skill requirements.

I would rather have an eve novel/book, store poster or ship key chain, anything physical really. Ingame items if I had to choose though, i'd sooner see more vanity clothes/tats/scars/hairs than ships. Just my opinion of course but to be honest i'm happy with the collectors edition as is.

Just take a Machariel and rig and fit it for exploration.

Voila! Less powerful Machariel that does exploration.

Sure let's add a ship no one will ever use ebcause it will be the biggest gank bait ever seen. Makes a lot of sense to design a ship with such limited use.