Here was the question and answer in the months ask cryptic.
Q: (tpai99) Will there be a Fleet version of the Vesta? What about the new ships that you guys design yourself? Will there be more possibilities to create your own ship?
Dstahl: We haven?t made a final decision on the Fleet Vesta, but it is one of the ships we are considering for a Fleet refit. We do have several new ship designs in the works, along with some older designs from both the TOS and Enterprise era. One of our long term goals is to allow Fleets the ability to customize and/or create their own ships, but we want to make more customization parts for existing ships before we implement that.
Now that last part says to me that one day we will be able to create our own ship from every body part from every playable ship. As apposed to swapping body parts from the 3 or 4 variants within the class. That sounds pretty cool to me but am I reading this right or did he mean something else?
When I read this, I cannot really put stock into it as something that will happen in the future. Dstahl has always been very good at musing about what they'd like to see, especially in terms of long term goals, etc. Whether or not these things are put on somebody's schedule is an entirely different matter. Unless it's part of some major season push, it's probably not going to happen.
I'd file this under, "What we'd like to see on Andoria," stated in a three year old interview. Or, file this in the same box as the long term goals of the foundry, PVP, the KDF, and crafting.
Granted, this sounds more doable than a cut-scene editor for the foundry or a 3d editor that can deal with scaling, given the engine.
But, I'll have seen about everything, when I see this elephant fly.
First of all they need to fix the hulls/saucer alignments/fittings of many ships -for example the fleet dssv unique saucer or hull will not work with any other dssv hull/saucer combo without pattern/feature alignment
That said, I could imagine some gorgeous ships if any part could be added to any ship...especially if you could resize them (voquv with bop wings? yes please!)
Here was the question and answer in the months ask cryptic.
Q: (tpai99) Will there be a Fleet version of the Vesta? What about the new ships that you guys design yourself? Will there be more possibilities to create your own ship?
Dstahl: We haven?t made a final decision on the Fleet Vesta, but it is one of the ships we are considering for a Fleet refit. We do have several new ship designs in the works, along with some older designs from both the TOS and Enterprise era. One of our long term goals is to allow Fleets the ability to customize and/or create their own ships, but we want to make more customization parts for existing ships before we implement that.
Now that last part says to me that one day we will be able to create our own ship from every body part from every playable ship. As apposed to swapping body parts from the 3 or 4 variants within the class. That sounds pretty cool to me but am I reading this right or did he mean something else?
One of CCP/EVE's main goals almost since inception was ground combat to complement the space combat. Nearly 10 years later, they finally realized that goal....and that's a company who has their **** together.
Wouldn't hold my breath over anything being 'considered', he's a master at being vague and dangling carrots in front of players. The only decisive thing about what he says, is being indecisive. The ship models in the game now have problems, like how my Hephaestus seems to turn into a Prometheus upon separation and reassembly, my AC still has edge rendering issues which let me see inside the saucer of my ship with the Borg set equipped, and the obligatory comment about the Gal-X not having saucer sep....Cryptic is their own worst enemy when it comes to content.
What I'd like to see (but won't happen, most likely), is at each new ship level you pick a chassis, not an actual ship. The chassis determines how many weapon slots, innate abilities/stat changes, BOff slots etc the ship has, and then you're completely free to use any ship costume part you've unlocked on it.
Want to fly an escort's stats but look like a Galaxy class. Go for it.
A ship that looks like a Defiant but with 4/4 weapons and the tankiness of a cruiser? Fine, but it'll still ACT like a cruiser.
How about a Miranda that flies like a Bug ship? Or a VoQuv with all the stats of a Kar'Fi?
One of CCP/EVE's main goals almost since inception was ground combat to complement the space combat. Nearly 10 years later, they finally realized that goal....and that's a company who has their **** together.
We're still waiting for WiS though. Incarna, you had so much promise :P
What I'd like to see (but won't happen, most likely), is at each new ship level you pick a chassis, not an actual ship. The chassis determines how many weapon slots, innate abilities/stat changes, BOff slots etc the ship has, and then you're completely free to use any ship costume part you've unlocked on it.
Want to fly an escort's stats but look like a Galaxy class. Go for it.
A ship that looks like a Defiant but with 4/4 weapons and the tankiness of a cruiser? Fine, but it'll still ACT like a cruiser.
How about a Miranda that flies like a Bug ship? Or a VoQuv with all the stats of a Kar'Fi?
We're still waiting for WiS though. Incarna, you had so much promise :P
It's more than likely that you'll simply be able to mix and match from ships of the same type from that rank.
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I wish it were like building spaceships in Spore.
I'd file this under, "What we'd like to see on Andoria," stated in a three year old interview. Or, file this in the same box as the long term goals of the foundry, PVP, the KDF, and crafting.
Granted, this sounds more doable than a cut-scene editor for the foundry or a 3d editor that can deal with scaling, given the engine.
But, I'll have seen about everything, when I see this elephant fly.
That said, I could imagine some gorgeous ships if any part could be added to any ship...especially if you could resize them (voquv with bop wings? yes please!)
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One of CCP/EVE's main goals almost since inception was ground combat to complement the space combat. Nearly 10 years later, they finally realized that goal....and that's a company who has their **** together.
Wouldn't hold my breath over anything being 'considered', he's a master at being vague and dangling carrots in front of players. The only decisive thing about what he says, is being indecisive. The ship models in the game now have problems, like how my Hephaestus seems to turn into a Prometheus upon separation and reassembly, my AC still has edge rendering issues which let me see inside the saucer of my ship with the Borg set equipped, and the obligatory comment about the Gal-X not having saucer sep....Cryptic is their own worst enemy when it comes to content.
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Want to fly an escort's stats but look like a Galaxy class. Go for it.
A ship that looks like a Defiant but with 4/4 weapons and the tankiness of a cruiser? Fine, but it'll still ACT like a cruiser.
How about a Miranda that flies like a Bug ship? Or a VoQuv with all the stats of a Kar'Fi?
We're still waiting for WiS though. Incarna, you had so much promise :P
It's more than likely that you'll simply be able to mix and match from ships of the same type from that rank.