Great, I love that there are ships as rewards BUT why give us generic “SOCT” ships when we can buy those from the market??? This event is unique, there won’t be another one like it - so why didn’t you make the ships unique at least in their base unwashable looks like you did with the ship reward of the Gallente election track???
Or You could have gone a little further and given them an extra stat per level which could have been the same “flavor” for all of them - for example they could have gotten + to shield points or + to shield recharge rate or + to shield resistances, if the he player have trained the respective Caldari skills:
Metamorphosis - Caldari Frigate
Sunesis - Caldari Destroyer
Gnosis - Caldari Battlecruiser
Praxis - Caldari Battle ship
And next year another set of ships with unique matching skins and per level bonuses, etc.
So you are saying nobody at CCP thought to give us different versions of the same base ships, instead for 23 years or whatever they decided to start this event, they gave us the same ships? And then someone in another thread justified CCP wasting time on some side project like EVE: Vanguard and EVE: Frontier, because it is a good thing to “diversify”! LOL
Unique hulls like the AT ships would feel decidedly less so if CCP were to hand them out to everyone every couple months. Giving us SOCT ships is a tradition, and they fit that role well, everyone gets something out of them. Newbies can fly them well without spending a lot of time training skills, you can brick-tank the Praxis to have a decent tanky highsec hauler (well, 10km³, but still) without having to train a character into DSTs, the Gnosis is an ever-popular boat for alphas, the Sunesis admittedly is pretty worthless right now, the Metamorph is a popular explorer, or you can sell them for someone else to enjoy.
Half the point of EVE is fitting your ships. If CCP just hands out a “Gnosis Mark.XXIII” this year that only boosts lasers or whatever, well, that Gnosis is going to feel less unique, because all of them will be fitted with lasers. A base model Gnosis can be fitted for missiles or any of the three empire turrets, or optimised for drones, it can be shield or armour or hull tanked, and so on. You can make a Gnosis your own in a way you couldn’t with a “Gnosis Mark.XXIII”.
Sure, but what makes Chosis III different from Gnosis VIII or Gnosis XXIII??? NOTHING! As I said
which you missed - they could have AT LEAST painted them differently! If you and others are so worried that you would fly ships with the same builds, then they could figure a way to to still make Gnosis X different from Gnosis Y. I suggested bonuses to shields, and why is it a problem for you that Gnosis X the one for + to turret tracking would be different from Gnosis Y + to missile explosion radius? The only one that should complain here is CCP because every year they would have to add extra 5 ships on the market that they have to worry about. Or here is another suggestion - they could make the SOCT ships like the strategic cruisers by allowing them to fit subsystems, without the change of looks as far as the shape of the ships go, they could still make them have different skin patterns based on which subsystem is equipped, so in addition to the same ships, the track also rewards a subsystem that would be connected to those other skills.
And bringing the newbies into the argument so you can win it is lame, as a newbie I flew a Myrmidon fitted with rail guns because even being so deep in the skill tree I still had a lot to learn, newbies won’t know the difference, they would appreciate it years later.
you type stuff but you don’t seem to think about what you type!
The frigate - Metamorphosis - costs 40+ mill, and this is now when there is abundance of it! What newbie is going to afford to pay for ship that expensive that has only one turret/launcher slot?!? Outside the 'promotion" the price can go over 80+ mil! I don’t think new player line up to join the game only during the month when this reward track is active.
This ship is too expensive for the new players and they won’t even know how to make the best use of it. So regardless of it being your own opinion or quoting what a CCP developers had said about it and what CCP intentions were when the ship was introduced for the first time, this ship is not serving its purpose!
ALSO if CCP really wanted this ship and the rest of the SOCT ships to be used by new players, they would have made them to be the rewards in the carrier programs, that new players are encouraged to do, and not as rewards in a one time per year a month long track!