jove are almost dead, soon enough they'll be like talocans and sleepers, dead and extinct. 'Cept maybe we can salvage their ships.

The Jovians are only there for 2 reason.
1) so the devs have their own space to play around in.
2) because they balance the odds between the races ( like it was said in Clear Skies ), one faction may never poses technology that could topple another and so the Jovians share their technology, up to as much as is needed, to keep things even.


One more thing, opening the EVE wormhole again ( and the Jovians as a playable race of course ), will lead to massive imbalance ( unless of course, through some magic way, the "earthlings" did not evolve their technology ).

The Jovians are only there for 2 reason.
1) so the devs have their own space to play around in.
2) because they balance the odds between the races ( like it was said in Clear Skies ), one faction may never poses technology that could topple another and so the Jovians share their technology, up to as much as is needed, to keep things even.


One more thing, opening the EVE wormhole again ( and the Jovians as a playable race of course ), will lead to massive imbalance ( unless of course, through some magic way, the "earthlings" did not evolve their technology ).

The problem with the Jove in EVE terms is essentially the same problem Star Wars Galaxies had (pre NGE):

If you give people a way to access something which is designed to be better than everything else, as the number of them increases, they end up ruining the game for everyone else or becoming so common that they render everything else obsolete.

On the flipside, if said item is designed only to be equal to everything else and offer nothing more for extra difficulty in getting access to it, you have to ask, what's the point?


(*as a side note, I'd imagine as SW:TOR has flopped that Lucasarts might now realise this and make the next SW mmo explore the actually rather rich SW universe, rather than focus on Force Users).

(*as a side note, I'd imagine as SW:TOR has flopped that Lucasarts might now realise this and make the next SW mmo explore the actually rather rich SW universe, rather than focus on Force Users).

everyone knows jove ships are 8/8/8. They must never be unleashed

Even worse... they are 24/24/24.

everyone knows jove ships are 8/8/8. They must never be unleashed

So we keep getting told the Jove are out there, and nothing ever happens. It's coming up on a decade of EvE online. Are we ever going to see the Jove? I mean honestly?

...and how cool would it be if the EvE gate opened again and various Terran empires came through? If we hit a million paid accounts would you start considering an expansion like that?

Anyone else want to see Jove ships?

Anyone else want to see Jove ships?

No because they would either be overpowered or dissapointing. Nothing more.
There's enough intra-galatic depth and storyline that you don't need to introduce Terrans as well.

I vote to leave these alone.

yk

I used to fly in Jove space, until I discovered Smirnoff.

what

Everyone are retards when they talk about the Jove... look back a little, it wasn't long ago that the jove were actually flying macheriels, cynabals and dramiels... those were the old version of Jove ships...

If anything, adding new jove ships would be awesome because of the designs, and really... you guys are retards when you expect a single Jove ship to be so powerful, they are far from immortal.

I think having overpowered ships in game could work and it would create interesting gameplay if done right

An idea i had a while ago would be to have one randomly spawning wormhole in New Eden that leads Jovian space and once a certain number (between 1-5) of people pass through it, it closes.

In these wormholes you could stumble upon an archaeological site that contains an abandoned Jovian ship that has some unique and overpowered functions. Only 4 (for example) of the ships could exist in New Eden at one time. When a pilot enters one of these ships, they gain access to a private chat channel where they can communicate with the pilots of the other 3 Jovian ships

On their own the ships would be comparable to a T3 but slightly better in almost every way but when these Jovian ships work together, they have the ability to link there weapons together producing massive damage, with the maximum damage output being equivalent to a doomsday when all 4 ships link their weapon systems.

The catch... you can't dock in a Jovian ship and when it's destroyed, it returns the archaeological site in the Jovian wormhole.

The ships would never leave Jita and you're back to square 1... I can't understand why a Jovian ship would be left toiling at an arch site, with skill books conveniently left in the glovebox.

AK

No not unless there was a valid gameplay mechanic pertaining to them.

Story wise I don't really care. Jove is better as an enigma.

The Jove are there as a plot device, and that's the best use for them

Kinda interesting if they opened up Jove space eventually...But have multiple entry points from all sides. Meaning a whole lot of people are going to rush in to take completely neutral territory.

MOTHER ******* LAND GRAB BITCHES!!! Go all second colonial age on jove space like africa.

The Jove are there as a plot device, and that's the best use for them.

The problem is that CCP appear to have once again literally lost the plot.

I made a nice post about my feelings about the topic

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1082997

Newfags don't know 'bout Admiral Ouria / Misu Baniya

You want to use an alt to bring up some stupid fictional sidenotes and put them on parity w/ expanding the game?

Pod yourself. Troll rating 1/10

I didn't know pirates cared so much about canon/lore.

I think it could be balanced and knock out the bittervet cries for more content at the same time. What if to fly a Jove frigate you had to have all race frigates at 5 to train jove frig 1? Jove ships should have omni-stats, meaning like the sensors on the apotheosis at +10 to all sensor strengths. However, you could only give them a slight advantage, maybe say (just as an example) shields would have equal resists to all damages but only 35%, and there is an added penalty to boosting resists to all non-jove modules (including T2). In that way, yes you could have a f*** off jove frig fitted with all jove tec, but it would be a hero fit like that 80 billion isk mission runner BS that got ganked in empire the other week. Crazy expensive because jove mods (the ones that don't receive the penalty and only fittable on jove ships) are really rare. So Jove BS would require all race BS at 5 and only give the slightest advantage... it would still be fodder for any small low sec gang of pirates.

Jove are dead CONCORD dude from the "Templar One" novel said that, it must be true.

Considering that the Terran Corps/Empires have had hundreds or maybe thousands of years to develop their tech unless the collapse of the EVE Gate affected them the same way as New Eden.

jove are almost dead, soon enough they'll be like talocans and sleepers, dead and extinct. 'Cept maybe we can salvage their ships.

Everyone are retards when they talk about the Jove... look back a little, it wasn't long ago that the jove were actually flying macheriels, cynabals and dramiels... those were the old version of Jove ships...

If anything, adding new jove ships would be awesome because of the designs, and really... you guys are retards when you expect a single Jove ship to be so powerful, they are far from immortal.

An idea i had a while ago would be to have one randomly spawning wormhole in New Eden that leads Jovian space and once a certain number (between 1-5) of people pass through it, it closes.

In these wormholes you could stumble upon an archaeological site that contains an abandoned Jovian ship that has some unique and overpowered functions. Only 4 (for example) of the ships could exist in New Eden at one time. When a pilot enters one of these ships, they gain access to a private chat channel where they can communicate with the pilots of the other 3 Jovian ships

On their own the ships would be comparable to a T3 but slightly better in almost every way but when these Jovian ships work together, they have the ability to link there weapons together producing massive damage, with the maximum damage output being equivalent to a doomsday when all 4 ships link their weapon systems.

The catch... you can't dock in a Jovian ship and when it's destroyed, it returns the archaeological site in the Jovian wormhole.

[quote=Alexa Coates]jove are almost dead, soon enough they'll be like talocans and sleepers, dead and extinct. 'Cept maybe we can salvage their ships.

wow wasnt aware it flopped

when did that happen? It still looks going to me
(though iot IS funny they tossed out the storyline before the first expansion... allowing Sith to be jedi lol)

I did love all the star wars fans crowwing how theyd be the first mmo to have a full million subs all their first year tho (as a bioware I think guy said tat was what was required JUST for them to break even)

So we keep getting told the Jove are out there, and nothing ever happens. It's coming up on a decade of EvE online. Are we ever going to see the Jove? I mean honestly?

...and how cool would it be if the EvE gate opened again and various Terran empires came through? If we hit a million paid accounts would you start considering an expansion like that?

Anyone else want to see Jove ships?