Originally by: Illectroculus Defined

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So it sounds like you need all the parts of the ship, early on people had been speculating that you could just take the core out on its own, or perhaps the core + propulsion.

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Originally by: Gnulpie

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Yay \o/


Balancing will be tough though, very.

Also I wondered about:

"Once the ship has been assembled, players are free to switch out the subsystems completely at will, given they are docked at a station."

How about using a ship maintainance array at a pos also?

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Originally by: silken mouth

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will it be possible to combine subsystems of different races? also will each race have its own skillset?

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Originally by: Kuranta

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Edited by: Kuranta on 12/02/2009 16:42:37
Can the sub system skills be trained parallel with "normal" skills, as it is atm on Sisi?

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Originally by: Shadowsword

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We'll be able to "save" our setups?

Like, auto-fitting a ship if we have the modules alaivable?

That would be so nice...

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Originally by: Avalira

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Oh yeah, will carriers/MS/Titans give us the ability to change the subsystems while "in space". I know you only said stations but it would be cool to be able to swap them out too. Same thing with POS's.

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Originally by: Lubricious Cain

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Perhaps my brain isn't working correctly, but could someone clarify the skill point loss for me? It says a random skill point loss to one of the racial sub systems. But then it says its one level.

Does it mean to say that you lose 1 level from a random subsystem skill? Or could this random loss of points actual lose more then 1 level?

Thanks

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Originally by: Leumas Kharzim

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Originally by: CCP Lemur

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Originally by: Lubricious Cain

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Perhaps my brain isn't working correctly, but could someone clarify the skill point loss for me? It says a random skill point loss to one of the racial sub systems. But then it says its one level.

Does it mean to say that you lose 1 level from a random subsystem skill? Or could this random loss of points actual lose more then 1 level?

Thanks

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It is one level from the top of one of the related subsystem skills. Skill is chosen randomly.

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How does that work with partially trained skills?

Let's say, for an unrealistic example, that all 5 skills are partially trained and stopped befor completing the next level (stupid, I know, but still a valid question). How does the system determine what to take away?

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Originally by: Rhys Onasi

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Edited by: Rhys Onasi on 12/02/2009 18:55:10

Originally by: CCP Lemur

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It is one level from the top of one of the related subsystem skills. Skill is chosen randomly.

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1. Is that the racially related subsystem skills? Or after losing your ASC (Amarr Strategic Cruiser- Look ma, I made an acronym!) could you lose some of your Caldari Racial Subsystem skills instead?

2. In previous statements on Tech 3 a while back, one of the Devs stated that dissasembling a SC would cause skill loss/ experience. Considering that was a couple months ago, a lot could have changed. Are we still going to lose SP from dissasembling? (I'm thinking no, that was a relic of an idea from back when you wanted to have the t3 ships themselves contain SP?) Can you confirm that the ONLY way to lose SP is to be sitting in the ship as it reaches <0 structure hitpoints?

And that any other way of escaping that scenario will prevent loss of sp?

and finally:
3. Who came up with the names?

EDIT: And 4. Please answer the poster directly above me who has a question that I have wondered about myself for a while, and forgot to add.

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Originally by: Mikal Drey

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hey hey

firstly the loki is a sexy little bugger. I went for the caldari style spikey front and the slender subsystem 2 frame. ofc i completly fitted for looks :)

Although the real stats arent currently available its looking like a real fun ship to fly. Just a couple of Questions tbh..

1. What are the plans for the availability and pricing for them ? from the production blog in game dev its looking to be a real expensive cruiser but we dont know how hard/easy/rare the parts will be to aquire or how much of a sink the "reverse engineering" process will be. is it CCP's intention that they are rare or commonplace. as someone said if anyone if flying one in fleet it will be primary for sure just fot he expensive loss to its pilot.

2. will there be an additional bonus if you fit all subsystems of the same type ? If you managed to get all subsystem 2's will there be a benefit to have them all working in unison ?

atm ive described the Loki as a vagabond on steroids. but SISI stats are placeholders atm so its hard to tell :)

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Originally by: Shadowsword

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Originally by: CCP Lemur

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Originally by: Shadowsword

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We'll be able to "save" our setups?

Like, auto-fitting a ship if we have the modules alaivable?

That would be so nice...

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That is the plan. Player can save their own fittings and corps can save fittings for their members too. And if you have all stuff available you can just click "fit".

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Nice nice nice.

Will it do the same with ammos and drones?

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Originally by: Hitachi Morimoto

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Edited by: Hitachi Morimoto on 12/02/2009 20:27:08
Hi, Couple of questions for Dr. Awesome the dev.

1: Reverse engineering. Will it require a special lab or structure to produce the necessary BPCs? (BPOs?)

2: I heard that to actually produce using said BP a special structure will be needed. Will there be changes to the high sec assembly lines to allow empire dwellers to produce these ships and subs?

3: Will the subsystems change the amount of dronespace, hardpoints, etc? (IE can i make a glass cannon with 8 launcher hardpoints and 125 dronespace + bandwidth?)

4: The sleepers will apparently be tougher than a concrete creme brulee. Will they be utilizing T3, making their tactics and weaknesses a crapshoot?

5: Will the SP loss include the skills required to fly T3, or just the subsystem skills?

6: Do you ever get tired of reading threads?

Thanks for your time.

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Originally by: Niccolado Starwalker

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If I have level 1 in all subsystem skills and then dies. Will I then loose no xp, or do I have to get the skill again or..?

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Originally by: Finnroth

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Edited by: Finnroth on 13/02/2009 04:43:36
I believe to have read something on the forums regarding the ability to manualy change light and colour for Tech3 ships. Some dev seems to have said something about that on EVE TV, though i didn't watch it myself and people on this forums tend to talk trash for fun all day.

So a simple question - are/were there plans to do this? It would certainly be amazing.

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