Maybe this has been suggested before (i feel like it must have been, surely?), but is there any chance we could get the option of adding a column field for the ship class (frigate, frigate II, Battleship etc) to the overview ? EVE has like what, 300+ ships ? Knowing its an X isn’t super helpful for newer players. It be nice to know which of the items on the overview are interdictors, which are battleships etc without needing to remember the names of them all.
Doesn’t the overview already use ship icons to distinguish between ship sizes like frigates and battleships?
I’m pretty sure it does.
You will quickly get used to those icons!
I agree that for more detailed roles it takes more time to get to know which ship names are interdictors and which ones are heavy assault cruisers. But this too is something you will learn as you play the game more, just like people get to learn the roles of hundreds of different champions in a game like League of Legends by playing.
At least in EVE there aren’t that many unique move sets, an interdictor does interdictor things regardless of whether it is called ‘Flycatcher’, ‘Eris’ or ‘Sabre’.
And checking a ship’s role is only a rightclick away. I still often use that for pirate ships, I rarely see them and tend to forget their bonuses.
Honestly on a laptop screen we’re talking a low number of mm in size and they don’t help too much for new players in particular. It just seems like a pretty easy thing to add as text. I know it would help me a ton.
At the moment i’m checking each ship type by hand, but it definitely puts you at a big disadvantage in terms of pvp. I can only really remember the ship’s i’ve flown myself, but something like amarr which i’ve never flown is more difficult, and faction stuff even more so.
Actually see the same kind of thing with the alliance tournament. They throw ship types around left right and center, a ton of which are exotic faction types, but rarely mention the classes and it’s not displayed on screen anywhere either. Kinda an oversight to me.