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Rhavas Future Corps Sleeper Social Club 281	Posted - 2014.04.25 19:03:00 - [1] - Quote There could well be more than six. CCP Fozzie wrote: Here's your hint: The ships each fall into one of three categories. One category will be fairly low impact for most players but still represent cool addition(s) to the game that I think many players will enjoy seeing. Two ships - the Alliance Tournament prizes. These have been spied on various test servers. CCP Fozzie wrote: One category fill a void that we've wanted to cover for quite a while. Four ships - the long-missing battleships. Check out the right side of this picture Amarr Combat BS (Apoc moved to Disruption and to Attack since the pic) - Focused on missiles Caldari Attack BS - Maybe a larger anti-cruiser brother to the Caracal Gallente Disruption BS - Focused on points and damps Minmatar Disruption BS - Focused on target painters and webs CCP Fozzie wrote: One category provides more advanced version(s) of one of the most popular ships classes in EVE. This smells like Tech 3 Frigates or T3 industrials. In lore they most likely connect back to this little news item about the miniaturized gravity well generator that will power them. There are three names that have been discovered already that may be these. We also may know the names of these ships - I did a bit of speculation on this a few weeks ago in this post. Author of Interstellar Privateer Shattered Planets, Wormholes and Game Commentary
Rhavas Future Corps Sleeper Social Club 282	Posted - 2014.04.26 02:40:00 - [2] - Quote Ranamar wrote: Rhavas wrote: There could well be more than six. Rhavas, since you're the guy who wrote up the three-witches post, I feel like you're smarter than this. For one thing, you've got at least 7 ships here there if you're expecting 4 new battleships. Yeah, that's why I said there could be more than six. I'll admit I'm swinging for the fences here, but Falcon & Fozzie love to troll this sort of stuff out there, and I have fun biting on it (I'm sure it provides some good humor in the frozen north). But I've also seen CCP on more than one occasion "hint" one thing and then do another (example: There once was a ship contest to design "a ship" - in the end they picked four designs, which became the Tier 3/Attack BCs). I wouldn't put it past them to say "six" and then show six at Fanfest and the AT ships a couple weeks later, for instance. Ranmar wrote: If we take as given that the low-impact ships are the AT prizes, that gives us 4 ships left to work with. We know at least one of them is an advanced upgrade to a popular ship. Now what I would of course love to see is one of several concepts I've been floating for years. Like a rework of the Primae to allow it to be a POS stealing and hauling ship. Or a ramming/boarding ship. Or a pure-play fitted ship "relocation hauler" (maybe a T2 Orca?) Ranmar wrote: I really don't think we're going to get more T3s of any sort until they figure out what they actually want to do with the existing T3s, which are very powerful but I'd say are still at least somewhat controversial. The only singleton ships out there that could get a T2 treatment are from ORE. I don't know how popular the Venture is, but we've found a T2 Venture model, and apparently even a name for it. We have? That's new news to me. What's the name? Ranmar wrote: That just leaves the three witches. My money is still on Caldari/Minmatar missile pirates While not as lore-appropriate, I can't say that's a bad guess. It's probably a more mechanics-likely guess but the names wouldn't make sense. Long story short - the real power behind my Magic Crystal Ball is crowdsourcing. Usually the way it works is someone finds something. I dig and get about 30% of the reality. I post, and a pile of other people tell me what I missed. I re-theorize and re-post, and then we're at about 50%. A bunch of other people shoot holes in that. I end up about 60%-80% sure of things in the end. Right now we're right around 60% - I think the answers are in this thread. But regardless, isn't the speculation fun? Author of Interstellar Privateer Shattered Planets, Wormholes and Game Commentary

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