Isn't that what Sins is around?

Its acutally about the same for eve thankfully,,,

We can work on the mod without the permission of Eve to start it, we just cant distribute it until we have promission from what i understand.

I dont know who has talked to them, but we need to do it from an advertising standpoint... IE give them free ads on the mod's website and all the credit to them for the models.. but CCP has been known to be ghay a time or two so they may say no... but i dont think that should stop us from working abit....

get a working prototype with 2 races frigs and cruisers, then run it by CCP -this way if they say no you're not out much work.  if they give the ok, you've gotten the basics down and are ready to mwd in vagabond style with guns blazing.

Minmatar Example:
Frigate Factory:

Frigate section: 8 slots: 
Slasher (Scout + MWD)
Rifter (AC  + MWD)
Vigil (target designate)
Breacher (long range missile)
Thrasher (high damage long range projectiles)
Mammoth (colonize)
Bellicose (long range missile + cluster)
Scythe (extractor takeover)

Cruiser Section: 8 slots:
Claw (MWD + Long range Artillery)
Jaguar (MWD + AC, good shields)
Vagabond (MWD, high shields, tackling/immobilization)
Scimitar (Shield restore -Dunov Style)
Cyclone (long range artillery, good shields)
Hurricane (MWD + AC -poor shields, moderate armor)
Claymore (AC's + fleet speed increase, target disruption (sig reduction), high shields)
Huginn (Immobilization + missiles, artillery)

Capital Factory:
Typhoon (Ac's + Neuts, fighers/bombers damage bonus, MWD -moderate armor/shields + tackle)
Tempest (MWD, AC, a smartbomb effect, moderate shields/armor, power surge)
Maelstrom (tons of long range damage, high shields)
Naglifar (Planet Siege, extreme damage -slow as hell -no nanofag dreads)
Nidhoggur (Ability to Spawn 20 Drones [7DS warhammer style], spawn 4 rifters, spawn 2 stabbers, massive shield restoring)
Rapier: (Very Very Expensive to build "1 capital cost; 300 fleet cost", but ability is to "Spawn" the Ragnarok titan)
**Rapier -the Ragnarok Titan Spawn ability cooldown is 9 hours to prevent spamming
**Ragnarok Titan -slow, doomsday weapon, high shield, low armor, ability to spawn 2 cyclones, spawn 1 hurricane

Hows it sound?  sure, the abilities and such are just my musings, but the overall idea might work.

On quick note a siege mode for dreads will be a fun addon to sins. Same general bonsus but your ship is stuck for lets say 5 minutes instead of 10... So who is uhh going to convert these babies to sins... i can get them out of EvE and looking purdy..but im at my wits end with getting them to work in Sins.

Being an EVE player for around 4 years now id like to make some personal alterations to your tech tree suggestions

New Tech trees

• Define specific race weapons and offensive abilities
  
  • Amarr = Beam/Pulse, Antimatter buffs and neutralizers (Beam = huge damage but slow refire rate. Pulse= high refire rate lower damage output per shot)
    
  • Caldari = Ecellent Missiles , Strong ECM and ECCM as said
    
  • Gallente = Devistating but very short range plasma weapons(Blasters) Strongest fighters/drones
    
  • Minmatar = Projectile, awesome speed, medium powered missiles
• Define specific race defensive buffs
  • Amarr = Armor buff, Hull restore (strongest armour/hull)
    
  • Caldari = Shield restore/buff (stongest sheild HP and recharge rate but very poor in armour/hull)
    
  • Gallente = Hull restore/buff
  • Minmatar = Mix of Shield restore and Hull restore
    
  Note: i have left this alone as it is pretty much spot on
  
• Define race specific ability areas
  
  • Amarr = Antimatter, Hull/Armour restore rate
  • Caldari = Targeting, ECM/ECCM, Shield boost/mitigation
  • Gallente = Fast Hull/Armour repair rate and increase in drone/fighter amount damage and defence
    
  • Minmatar = Speed, Shield buffs
• Civi stuff
  • Amarr = slave labour making ship and structure build time and costs reduced. religius fanatics making there culture spread stronger and making the Amarr more resiliant to hostile culture spread. being the largest of the 4 empires and having a reputation for the largest navy could give Amarr Logistic and cap ship slot increase research. being great builders as they are Amarr could get research increasing structure and civi ship hull/armour HP. Max Alligence increase research
    
  • Caldari = caldari should have a trade port very early in the tech tree with additional cash making research similer to currant TEC trade port research. research for making additional money from taxes on planets/asteroids. black market discount research and pirate bounty collection increase. (ok this is all i could think of for the time being for caldari as making money is all i could think of for the caldari, the rich basterds)
  • Gallente = above avarage resistence to hostile culture. research for max allegence (exotic dancers anyone ) and larger populations on planets as well as additional stages for developing additional civi infastructure. above avarage resource collection research ( ORE or Outer Ring Excavations was originaly a Gallente corp) 
  • Minmatar = Strongest culture resistence research bonuses (in all honesty i couldnt really think of anything else that would go for minmatar im sure someone else could help me out here though, sorry )

Well thats what i could think up for now i thank you anyone who botherd to read all that

x me up, I'll start having a look at caldari ships as they are mostly missile based anyway...   exceptions are rokh (sniper railguns) and the smaller t2 hybrid frigates.

-edit

"Sins of new eden" anyone?

true true....   I hate to admit it as i'm a chimera pilot at heart but in eve I took the time to train up the minmatar skills for the recon/hac's as they are really superior to the caldari for pvp in small engagements...    the drake ftw over the ferox tbh, but yeah.   -Comorant?  ohh, you mean the salvage boat

I'm just going through the strings file atm to see if I cant get some eve feeling from it...   already got the credits to isk and antimatter to capacitor, but I'm going to have to try and figure out how to decode the ship files now

-edit Sorted the race names for tec now, using tec as basic model as they are most human imo, going to see about getting the kestrel, merlin, caracal and rokh in game before doing any more, as stated these ship files dont make much sense

Actuly factories should only produce T1 ships. T2 should be upgraded from T1 in space by paying more resources after having done the reasearch.

T2 sips can be unlocked with high tier research in military.  If the "Empire" research -colonization, travel, mining enhancement is only 1 block, then a massive block can be "Research" that might have some basic T1 fundamental research that leads to tier 3-5 level T2 stuff that allows BPO research that will unlock the T2 ship in the military tree somewhere in the tier 3-6 area.

In 7 Deadly Sins, the Rogues start with the basic pirate ships but unlock the AFG series heavy cruisers with impressive abilities with tier 5 military research of the prototype.  With an EVE mod, unlocking the Vagabond wouldn't involve just having 5 military labs, but might involve having to research 2-3 items in the research block that are tier 3-4.
This way the ships themselves aren't very expensive, but the research is the kicker.  Most players will be using a lot of Tech 1 stuff and very little Tech 2 due to high research costs until late game.  Players wouldn't roll out a Titan spawning T2 ship without some extensive and pricey research to get that recon ship.  Seems like a lot, but keeps the TITAN from being a capitalship that can be created quick and cheaty via "First capitalship is free" feature.  Much of this prevents overpowering ships (most T2) from hitting the field too soon.

This nice side of all this lies in map creation via the GalaxyScenarioDef file where templates what NPC's spawn at various places and what sorts of "home planet" start fleets players have.  Not very difficult to create templates so players can start with just about anything.  Also with GalaxyForge 1.1, automatic scenario template creation/integration, starting fleets can be set damn easy. 

Gabriel, not sure if sec status could be applied to world made in GForge, but templates can define what is present -which is totally possible and very easy to do.  1.0 to 0.8 spawns can be very light frigates, 0.7 to 0.5 a few more frigs, maybe a cruiser or two, 0.4 to 0.2 more frigs, cruisers, a few BC's, 0.1 stack the prior spawn with the chance of a BS spawning too.  For 0.0 the template can be set to regularly spawn 2-4 BS's (.8 chance with 2-4 groups having a BS, BC, cruiser, 2 frigs), then carry the pattern downward in chance of T2 ships spawning.
It's doable via templates.

As far as capturables that are pre-req's for T2, that's not possible as far as I know and not very feasible.

POS draining resources... not sure that'll work either, but a combat POS -deathstar - would be a large tactical unit a'la starbases.  Stations can be repair and antimatter regen -perhaps a combination of Trade Port, Refinery, and Repair/AntimatterRegen.

Get the "Empire" ships in for each race and I can get the GSDef file worked up properly.  Get Pirate Faction ships set up as NPC races and I can lay them out as well as planet owners or just "rats" at a planet. 

If you really want to replicate "Cyno"/Hot-dropping a dread fleet... Take that rapier's ability to spawn a titan and instead modify it to spawn 10 dreadnaught that are basically like the ability that spawns a missile platform.  The immobility replicates SIEGE MODE perfectly -now just make them immune to everything except weapon damage.  This prevents the dreads from moving to another planet, they're sole purpose is to take down starbases and super-structures.  Set the Dreads (which have massive range and able to hit anything in the grav well no matter where deployed) to last for 5 minutes, then vanish -I think currently they explode/die but that can be looked into.

or give the rapier the titan spawn ability with antimatter cost of 5000 and Cyno Dreads a cost of 4000 to prevent spamming dread fleets.  I'm just suggesting ways to free up as many build slots as possible by spawning capital class vessels.

I'm just throwing out ideas.  If you deploy a beacon, it might not work properly and allow your dreads, carriers, titans, and mom to jump to it.  Besides, you want the ships arriving/spawning on top of the cyno ship, not entering at the edge of the gravity well.  Spawning prevents them from having to be mass produced in cruiser slots, cause if capitals you can only build so much.  Also, I see nothing wrong with that "Rapier/Cyno" ship being tier 6, 7, or 8 military research with some back-research to unlock it -AND- being as expensive as a capital, it's not gonna spawn more afterwards, so if not pwnd you can scuttle it or get antimatter feeds on top of it (logistics ships?).

just my cents