[Suggestion] Expanding SoE Environmental Bonus Effects to the Full Sisters Ship Line

EVE Technology and Research Center Player Features & Ideas
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Explorers,

With the introduction of the latest Sisters of EVE vessel and its environment-based bonus effects, I started wondering why this elegant mechanic isn’t present, at least in smaller form, across the rest of the SoE fleet.

From a roleplay and lore standpoint, the Sisters have always pushed the frontier of adaptive exploration technology. Their ships respond to space the way a living organism responds to its environment: quietly, subtly, but meaningfully. Carrying that philosophy into the existing hulls would reinforce their identity without turning them into monsters on the battlefield.

Proposal:
Add reduced-strength “Environmental Bonus Effects” to all existing SoE ships.

  • Frigate (Astero): 1–2%

  • Cruiser (Stratios): 2–5%

  • Battlecruiser (Odysseus – Exploration Commander variant): 10–20%

  • Battleship (Nestor – standard): 20%

These bonuses would remain exploration-oriented, not combat power creep and would scale according to the environment.

Why?

  • Strengthens the unique identity of the Sisters of EVE as adaptive explorers.

  • Gives exploration-focused capsuleers a thematic advantage without breaking balance.

  • Opens creative RP space: SoE hulls feel more “alive,” tuned to the signals and anomalies around them.

  • Provides a compelling reason to choose SoE ships specifically for deep-space journeys.

As a Signaleer who lives half his life among wormholes and ruins, this kind of small but meaningful interaction with space would make the SoE line feel even more like home.

— Fritte Cornelius
Signal Cartel Explorer

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For the sake of having as few unnessessary “exceptions” from general rules in the game, I have to agree here. I like simple and streamlined designs.

However, I’d probably giving a 10% role bonus flat to all of them. Mainly because I am of the opinion that complexity should only added where it has a clear advantage.

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Maybe, in time, I would agree with you.

For now it’s a completely new effect for a completely new (and expensive) ship.

Let’s not water that down by giving this to something much cheaper like an Astero as well immediately. Let this bonus instead encourage people to fly the new Odysseus, at least for a while.

Eventually if it is a well-received and fun bonus I could see reason to maybe add it to the other SoE ships as well, but asking for it right now feels as if you want to experience the new bonus for cheap in an Astero instead of paying for the Expedition Command ship.

The bonus is one of the things to make the Odysseus worth it’s price tag, and is something to make long voyages to various landmarks worth it. This fits the Odysseus much more than the other SoE ships.

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Every single time CCP comes out with something new, someone always asks for it to be expanded to everything else in the game.

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