Speechless (and busy)

Well, okay, I’ve dropped the blog for a while. Mainly due to being rather busy with work related stuff, the (now ended) Battlefield 3 Beta, some real life stuff, etc. Well, I guess you get it (in case you’re interested at all).

Anyway, back to EVE. Over the last few weeks I wasted my skill time obtaining the prerequisites to the Tier 2 versions of Large Projectile Turrets, specifically Autocannons. There are only 3 more days to go and this new information regarding the winter expansions made me happy I finally did it.

To explain this a bit more, I’ve always been a fan of smaller crafts in EVE, specifically Cruisers and Battlecruisers. This has been one of the reasons they became the first T2 ships I’ve been able to fly (except Covert Ops). However they definitely lack the firepower for some Level 4 missions which finally got me into obtaining my own Machariel. Then I finally got myself into training for Large Autocannon Specialization to maximize my damage output even a bit more…

And now the joy… they announced the new ships going to be released this winter will be Battlecruisers, T3 Battlecruisers to be specific. Hooray! Wait? Did I just waste weeks improving my Large Projectile Weapon skills just to get excited about a new medium hull? Well, no, and that’s the part that sounds really interesting. According to CCP Guard, the new ships will indeed feature oversized weapons – specifically large weapons on a medium hull. This is something hinted at earlier with some forum discussion going on about the Tornado introducing a new Battleship class featuring capital turrets as oversized weapons. This isn’t exactly the same, but to be honest, I like it even more.

Despite the fact I haven’t had lots of time for EVE over the last weeks, I’m really excited and can’t wait for the winter expansion. I looked forward to establishments, but new spaceships? I’ll take that any time as long as they’re of any use to me and I like their job/design – which is the case here. Although I have to admit, I’d like to see some redesigns of older ships (I’m looking at you, Tempest!) as well.