By Jim Rossignol on May 14th, 2012 at 9:00 am.
As mentioned in our sprawling Eve Online interviews, the next expansion, Inferno, is all about what makes Eve tick: warfare. It overhauls the war declaration system, factional warfare, killmails, missiles, and creates a “mercenary marketplace”. There’s plenty more though, with some graphical and UI tweaks, work on the character creator, overhauled incursions, and a bunch of new toys. This is the seventeenth Eve expansion, and it really is a big one. Hnngh. So tempting. Trailer should be up soon, too.
14/05/2012 at 09:07 Alexander Norris says:
That screenshot doesn’t include a Rifter, Jim! And that’s bad.
14/05/2012 at 09:10 jkz says:
The changes to the war dec system look good. The carebears should be able to get help easier now, hopefully it will increase the amount of more fair (for eve) pvp in high sec. The removal of neutral repping is also a good move.
Shame I don’t have time to play any more, they have been going in the right direction lately, but mmo = time sink.
14/05/2012 at 18:52 diamondmx says:
The changes to the wardec system are a small fix to a huge problem. They’re not nearly wide reaching enough to made a dent in the real problems.
But it is a start at least.
14/05/2012 at 09:14 President Weasel says:
EVE with less broken war mechanics. Do want.
Must… resist….
14/05/2012 at 09:19 Meat Circus says:
IT LOOKS LIKE A BIG GUN LOL
14/05/2012 at 09:57 stahlwerk says:
And sometimes a phoenix is just a phoenix.
14/05/2012 at 16:02 Azhrarn says:
Considering it’s designed as a station shattering missile platform (it’s a Dreadnought, a dedicated Siege Platform), that sort of makes sense. ;)
14/05/2012 at 09:20 Meat Circus says:
I mean, but good Christ those are some fugly ships. Some of them are triple-baggers.
14/05/2012 at 09:33 The Godzilla Hunter says:
Way to go dash my self-esteem. If those are not good, the I am hopeless.
14/05/2012 at 09:38 Kollega says:
I agree with this man. The shame from piloting half of these would burn so much that i’d turn into a neat pile of ash if i were ever to pilot them.
14/05/2012 at 09:41 Apolloin says:
Those are Caldari ships. It is rumoured that Caldari ships are not only designed by committee but that each ship is split into half and then each half is designed by a DIFFERENT committee and the two committees are not allowed to see each others work.
Then the two halves are welded together and the ship is launched.
14/05/2012 at 11:18 Jae Armstrong says:
Yes, Caldari are not the “pretty ships” race. To build on this, all of the races have an individual aesthetic philosophy:
Caldari: dull gray utilitarian boxes
Amarr: golden stately ostentation, many beaks
Gallente: smooth sleek colourful front-heavy blobs (…usually with one stray feature that ruins the whole thing)
Minmatar: scrap metal and duct tape
Jove: strange, alien, organic (lot of overlap here with Gallente)
Sansha: spikey, twisted, evil, dark, curvy
You’d be surprised how many people like the ISO Standard Human Spaceship look. I think they must be mil fic readers. :/
14/05/2012 at 11:20 Jae Armstrong says:
That pic also picks probably the worst possible angle to show them off from. Just, y’know, in fairness.
14/05/2012 at 16:04 Azhrarn says:
To be fair, that is a section of the EVE Ship chart, it was made to show the relative sizes of all of EVE’s ships to each other. Which is why all of them are shown in profile.
The more up-to-date version even includes the lengths of the ships in meters.
15/05/2012 at 04:00 aethereal says:
Sansha are by far my favorite. Nightmare, mmmmmm…….
Though it may also have to do with my love of shields and pew pew lasers….
14/05/2012 at 09:45 f1x says:
Whats the problem with the designs?
Sometimes you just want to pilot something that looks like a huge piece of debris or a leftover of an orbital space station designed by a drunk baboon and just relax around
14/05/2012 at 10:51 Bilateralrope says:
That’s what Minmatar ships are for.
14/05/2012 at 10:28 Alexander Norris says:
Here is a thing silly people often forget about space: there’s no aerodynamics in space.
It’s a thing EVE’s designers haven’t forgotten, so their spaceships look all kinds of cool and odd and unique rather than being boring, generic rocket-ships.
14/05/2012 at 11:02 Jae Armstrong says:
Pity they never took things into account that would be important in space. Like, say, distributing your thrust evenly around the centre of mass, or having a shape that isn’t going to fold up like an accordion the first time it tries to make a sharp turn. :P
14/05/2012 at 11:59 asura kinkaid says:
or, for that matter, heat exchange
14/05/2012 at 09:21 wodin says:
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14/05/2012 at 09:36 The Godzilla Hunter says:
This is the second time that this has happened. The prophecy shall be fulfilled when the Sunday papers fail to arrive on Sunday for the third time. Then KG will return and devour the world.
14/05/2012 at 09:59 Luke says:
Also sprach Horace, most endless of bears.
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14/05/2012 at 10:29 Alexander Norris says:
All hail Our Lord Kieron, Ender of Worlds.
14/05/2012 at 09:57 stahlwerk says:
Looking up jim’s twitter might provide clues. (hint: they were delayed to today)
14/05/2012 at 11:38 roobar says:
Unfortunately the police have responded to allegations of phone tapping of eve veterans, sky rim widows and progaming “Celebrities” and as a first measure RPS is stopping its Sunday paper in the hope they won’t notice the other six days of posts.
14/05/2012 at 12:06 The Godzilla Hunter says:
Proof: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2011/07/11/rps-says-sorry-for-phone-hacking/
14/05/2012 at 10:21 wodin says:
The Badger series looks like abit of plumbing.
14/05/2012 at 12:12 Retorrent says:
Oh Eve how I use to love playing you! My character was a miner, that was all I would do I would, I would scout for rocks and then come back mine everything I could find of worth for my corp. I just fond it relaxing just to mine, most people hated it, but to me it was fun. Then my fellow corp mates got lazy, no one wanted to run escorts/ guard duty for me so most times I would risk it and go on my own. Well needless to say an undefended ore miner is a big juciy target and I got poded . After that I just couldn’t play anymore my heart wasn’t in it.
Maybe someday I will pick the ol mining laser and find a corp worth joining who will help out the guy who dose the work the most consider boring.
14/05/2012 at 17:09 jellydonut says:
You’re in luck seeing as they’re trying to make mining the primary source of minerals again!
Minerals are already more costly as well.
15/05/2012 at 21:02 PsyComa says:
RPS Holdings is recruiting!
Find us in RPS Community chat channel in-game, but don’t bring the mining laser!
14/05/2012 at 17:11 jellydonut says:
Should’ve used a screenshot of the new launchers and effects instead of a player-made pixel art chart to illustrate this post. :p
14/05/2012 at 18:42 Dhatz says:
you missed the perfect opportun ity on the pictere alt. WAT. THE. SHIP.
14/05/2012 at 20:04 Kazz says:
Don’t forget that Rock Paper Shotgun Holdings are always looking for new corp members!
http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/forums/showthread.php?246-Eve-Online-RPS-Holdings-is-looking-for-new-pilots