Mobius Kaethis
Molon Labe.
General Tso's Alliance
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Posted - 2014.06.09 07:05:00 -
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CCP Rattati wrote:We want to introduce the fun scifi weapons earlier into new players hands. The Gallente Assault Rifle doesn't really strike you as epic scifi, more like the trusty Garand than anything.
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We want to create militia variants of the following weapons for now:
Scrambler Rifle
Rail Rifle
Combat Rifle
Laser Rifle
Mass Driver
Plasma Cannon
Heavy Machine Gun
2)
The second part of the roll-out would be to actually racially theme the starter fits so each race has it's proper choice of weapon. Please comment on this, and whether it should maybe be the Assault variant of the racial rifles.
3)
The third part would be to allow all races to have access to the Frontline Suit of the other races, maybe a limited number or unlimited. Please comment on that as well, from lore perspective etc. I feel it is important to show new players they are not limited in weapon selection by their race of choice.
Remember, that the militia variants are to test a weapon, and should not be used after skilling into it, so these will have both some limitations to clip-size, heat buildup and increased PG/CPU requirements.
Discuss.
1)Excellent
2) I think that each race should start out with its preferred varient so:
Amarr - Scrambler (the tactical one not the ASCR)
Gallente - AR (assault)
Caldari - RR (breach)
Minmatar Combat Rifle (burst)
As far as support weapons are concerned I think you should start making that determined by the clan (at least that is what they are called by minmatar) the player selects on creation. Support based clans (I'm going to have to look up the general Eve term because I want to just say Brutor but that is way too specific) should get support weapons on their starter fit (ie massdrivers, PLC, lasers, etc...). Make all of that stuff matter in some tiny way again, it was fun.
3) I don't know about this one since it seems to break with lore but perhaps with an intro saying something to the extent of: "You are a mercenary, beholden to none but your self and the isk your weapon commands. While you may herald from (insert name of race's home planet here) you have forsaken your cultural ties and can choose the best tools for a job." Clearly that needs some work but it would give new players the idea. If you are going to give access to starter fits regardless of race you should make it limited since there is no reason why we should have access to such a wide variety of starter fits if we really do need to start using better gear as soon as we can. Too many people are willing to switch into starter fits to make isk and having access to a greater variety of starter fits will only make this worse.
Fun > Realism
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