Originally posted by: Malladine
So where exactly are T3 ships going to fit in New Eden? All powerful everyone wants them, highly specialized or simply something different and unpredictable?
Time sink / money sink PvE ships I think, with rich / very high SP chars using certain fits for PvP, at least for the start. The whole 'lose SP when you get popped' thing is kinda crap, and CCP's suggestion of ejecting before the ship pops is kinda bunk as well unless they've fixed the lag.
I don't plan on skilling up for them for a while, but I'll be out there wormholing away supplying those who will
I just don't really like the whole need for Cruiser V to get in one... One of my chars is spec'd in frigates, the other is a Gallente drone boat mission runner / gankathron pilot. Neither one has gotten me anywhere near Cruiser V, and a month spent skilling for it is a month wasted for me. Maybe in a month when I finish up T2 heavy drones on one toon and finish up all the secondaries I've got planned out on the other I'll look at getting in T3 cruisers, but for now I don't see myself spending a month training an otherwise fairly useless skill (useless to me at the moment, that is) - although, it would bring my that much closer to an Ishtar.
*noob moment* I haven't actually been on sisi as of yet, haven't been able to get on, so this is all second hand from my (much higher SP) corp mates who have been. But at this point I don't see much use going for the T3 cruisers with my 6mil and 7mil SP chars.
So to better answer your question, I think we'll see a lot of high SP chars in them flying them well, and a lot of low SP chars in them, flying them terribly.