El Yatta
Mercenary Forces
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.01.13 13:56:00 -
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Not a major expansion has gone by without new ships: Exodus brought BC and destroyer and barge, Cold War dreads and freighters, RMR had titans, carriers, ms's, recons, dictors. exhumers and command ships, and revelations brought us tier 3 bs and tier 2 bc.
However, what do we need now? People always desire more ships, but most of the tech 1 ship classes have a t2 class, and not many people are calling for T2 capitals. A lot of missing roles are filled now (interdictors, advanced gang-links, assault BC, and EW t2 ships were a godsend, really).
So, what roles are missing?
1) Jump freighter. Carriers being used says it all really.
2) ORE capital (could combine no.1 as well). We know this is coming.
3) Junker/salvage vessel. This is definitely needed, fleshes out the profession a bit. Could either be the t2 mining frigates (bantam inquisitor burst imicus etc), but personally I'd quite like a nice t1 model, perhaps either from all races, or a one-off like Ammatar or ORE again. IT should be suitably beaten up and look like the trash-heap that it is.
4) Archaeology/hacking vessel. Again, either the missing t2 frigates (griffin navitas probe, add a new amarr one), or a nice one-off t1 design, all blinky lights and high tech, civilian-style (make it look like the science vessel from starcraft), say from Society of Conscious Thought or Mordus.
5) Tier 2 destroyer would go down well in many parts.
6) Well, we're down to T2 BS now, and we know how controversial that idea is. I dont personally see the need for any kind of flagship/ubertank/ganglink ship when we have carriers, mothers, titans, AND command ships for more-advanced-than-BC leadership.
So, any more ideas? New ships are always coveted by the playerbase, but now it seems the "obvious" choices (pad out empty categories, make t2 versions of most ships) are running out.
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El Yatta
Mercenary Forces
Exquisite Malevolence
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Posted - 2007.01.13 18:58:00 -
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 Originally by: ee21k
We need a dedicated science vessel, bonuses to scanning, probing, ECM, exploration and maybe even salvaging.
why?
FOR SCIENCE!
As long as it looks like the one from starcraft ofc. "Arrggh, who let these lab monkeys out?" "E = M C... doh, where's my notepad...?"
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