Arcata Steiner
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.08.22 21:22:00 -
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CCP BunnyVirus wrote:thanks
Bridges. A ship needs one. I know I'll probably catch flak for being an RPer, but if I was a ship captain I'd want to have windows, and they would need to be forward facing. Some ships this has been done very well on (Gallente Velator for example), even on larger ships like the Megathron. I don't care for the front end of the megathron, but that's completely a person preference thing, at least it has a superstructure that looks like it could have a bridge on it. But so many ships, especially the larger ones, it is impossible to tell where it is being commanded from, and it gives no sense to the scale of the ship. Are they lights or windows? On some ships it's impossible to tell because their arrangement serves no purpose.
Some ship designs appear almost like laziness. Take Caldari ships for example...being asymmetrical is not necessarily a bad thing, as long as it looks like it serves a purpose. Look at the Kestrel and Heron vs the Moa and Blackbird. All four designs are asymmetrical but the heron and krestel are at least believable, and their form seems to follow function. The Moa and Blackbird seem like they have no function. As another poster put it, if they are asymmetrical at least give them balance. The Caldari being a corporate and uncaring race doesn't mean they have to look like junk.
Colors. I know you try too keep with a theme, but couldn't there be a way to have color options available for ships to better fit some pilot's persona? We're not all corporate pilots. Couldn't a pirate purchase a red Rifter with shark teeth on the front?...Or a white Kestrel with racing stripes? Allowing color modification while keeping the model the same would be an easy way to incorporate individuality without too much headache. And if you want to keep most of the color "themes" as they are currently, make the color mods very exclusive/ expensive/ hard to earn. That way it wouldn't be abused, but if someone had a particular ship they loved to fly it would give them something to work for. |
Arcata Steiner
The Scope
Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.08.23 19:20:00 -
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Sin Pew wrote:Arcata Steiner wrote:CCP BunnyVirus wrote:thanks Bridges. A ship needs one. I know I'll probably catch flak for being an RPer, but if I was a ship captain I'd want to have windows, and they would need to be forward facing. As a pod pilot you're in ... wait for it ... a pod. You see the surrounding through camera drones, besides "windows are structural weaknesses".
Not me. I'm looking out my ship windows during the battle. When the klaxon goes off and I start hull tanking I sprint for my pod.   |