Hands Off, My Loots!

Welcome to the eleventh installment of the EVE Blog Banter, the monthly EVE Online blogging extravaganza created by CrazyKinux. The EVE Blog Banter involves an enthusiastic group of gaming bloggers, a common topic within the realm of EVE Online, and a week to post articles pertaining to the said topic. The resulting articles can either be short or quite extensive, either funny or dead serious, but are always a great fun to read! Any questions about the EVE Blog Banter should be directed here. Check out other EVE Blog Banter articles at the bottom of this post!

This month’s banter comes to us from Joe Brusati a long time reader of CrazyKinux’s Musing, who asks the following: CCP states that T3 Strategic Cruisers are just the start for the T3 line-up. In future Eve expansions what would you like to see as the next T3 ship type. Please be specific on details about what role this ship would play, cost of manufacturing, and the different modules that would be available for it, and of course you must give your T3 ship a name!

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I’ve been delaying this post for a bit now, and I think I might be late already…not sure if it’s 7 days after CrazyKinux sends out the mail, or 7 days after the 31st…either way…here it is.

Truthfully, I’ve always been the kind of person that plays the game I’m given.  I don’t whine about nerfs, and although sometimes I think certain things would be neat to see…I never really mention them in any formal way simply because I believe that it should be up to the Devs to choose what they want to do with their game.  Yeah, we pay to play the game…but all those people who think that means they get a say in the way the game is made are crazy…we pay to play the game…not to make it.  But now I’m rambling…so on to the real meat and potatoes.

I’ve also decided, for once, to write my response before I read anyone elses (I’m cringing at reading the 207 post in my google reader at the moment…I’ve taken the week to sit down and actually play eve a lot and ignore everything else…now to get caught up!)…that way it’s original to me and I can’t be influenced by reading other peoples ideas.

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It’s been hard to determine if I want to see T3 Frigates, or T3 Battlecruisers.  On one hand, Frigates are awesome and can do quite a lot of stuff…but then Battlecruisers can put up some awesome tank and dps….good for PvE or PvP.  I think though that I’m leaning more towards wanting to see a T3 Frigate…and then Battlecruisers after that.

Since as I said above about not being much of an imaginative person when it comes to thinking of new game features…I’m going to go over what I think the role of these ships could be, rather than thinking up 4 different ships and 5 different subsystems for each like there are for T3 Cruisers…I just don’t have the time or imagination for that at the moment.  And naming…hmm…I’ll take the easy way out on that…

Let me introduce you to my T3 Strategic Salvaging Frigate.  Notice…this is only one use for a T3 Frigate…and the only one I’d really like to see at the moment, so I’ll just stick with this one and let you use your own imagination for all the other roles a T3 Frigate could fill.

As it stands right now, I either use a Vigil, or a Dramiel for salvaging, and switch to a Covert Ops ships for scanning.  Both are fast, and both are weak if someone decides to shoot at me.  What I would like to see, is a frigate that I can select my own stats on via subsystems.  Speed/Agility Bonus, Salvager and Tractor Beam bonuses, Cloakiness, Scanning, and a little bit of tank.

The ability to combine the Ninja Salvaging career (yes…it is a career…all you full on carebears can suck it up and stop complaining about it please) into one ship would be awesome!  Some may say it would be overpowered…but I don’t see how it would be…it’s not like I’m asking for pew abilities on it too…just enough to fill one role perfectly.

I’m thinking something along the lines of a 25% speed bonus (with at least a 420m/s base speed) per skill level, 5 high slots, 3 lows, 4 mid, 100% tractor distance/speed, 100% salvager distance, and ability to use a covert ops cloak.  That would be nice.

Discuss.

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