EVE General Discussion

This doesn't hold water. If they wanted fewer drones out there, why would they introduce two new drone boat destroyers, and at least one drone boat frigate in Retribution? And in upcoming patches, Prophecy will become a drone boat as well. If anything, they're pushing for more drones, making Amarr arguably a superior drone race to Gallente.

Honestly 2 years ago I would agree, but with the rebalancing and the new cruisers overhaul Gaylente are just as much fun as most races. The only thing which continues to suck pvp-wise is the monodominance of speed/buffer + projectile turrets. Every race needs to have every damage type - that would go a long way to helping. Also CCP really needs to fix armour tanking.

A velocity buff for Gaylente hulls would also be awesome. They really are insanely slow compared to everything else.

National fleets need bonus.

Passive high slot module on a Black Ops or Command ships with racial bonus. Sin/ Astarte with a bonus module that only effects Gallente ships. The bonus could be an Afterburner speed buff or MWD sig rad penalty reduction, goal being to help Gallente fleets to get to range.

I'd love to see battles revolve around the four fleets instead of the Armor/ shield platform.

I'm afraid I don't have access to Eve right now, perhaps you can tell me which Gallente hulls accelerate faster than their amarr or minmatar equivalents?

The only thing wrong with hybrids atm is medium rails every other area is fine. Drones need a revamp but that is well know and not just limited to Gallente. When they fix Armor tanking you will see how deadly they truly are.

Talos is the agilest BC in EVE measured in align time.

Gallente is the second fastest race, and agility is better or as good as Minmatar, Amarr and Caldari follow behind these two.

In Retribution this becomes more pronounced- Thorax is more agile than Stabber, Vexor is the most agile combat cruiser.

How often are you expecting them to make changes to hybrid turrets?! This is from two patches ago, come on!

Hybrid Turrets

Reduce CPU usage:

XL Turrets: -5 CPU
L Turrets: -3 CPU
M Turrets: -2 CPU
S Turrets: -1 CPU

** Exception: 75mm Railguns (they already have very low CPU requirements.)

Reduce Powergrid usage:

All hybrid turrets: -12% Powergrid usage. Rounded to nearest whole number.

** Exceptions: Light Electron Blasters, Light Ion Blasters, 125mm Railguns, 75mm Railguns (they already have very low Powergrid requirements.)

Reduced Capacitor usage:

All hybrid turrets: -30% capacitor use

Tracking Speed Increase:

All blaster turrets: +20% to Tracking speed

** Exception: XL turrets (they already have good tracking when compared to other XL turrets)

Railguns

Damage Increase:

All railgun turrets: +10% to Damage modifier
** Exception: XL turrets (they already have good damage when compared to other XL turrets)

Hybrid turret ships

While I am hesitant to boost individual ships right now, I do think that a small speed boost to hybrid turret ships in general is needed. You will notice that a few hybrid turret ships are not mentioned here. The ones that are not listed are either fast enough already or they have range bonuses to hybrid turrets, which means that they are meant for longer range combat and as such should not need a velocity boost as much as other hybrid turret ships.

Max Velocity +10 on the following ships:

Arazu, Astarte, Brutix, Catalyst, Deimos, Dominix, Dominix Navy Issue, Enyo, Eos, Falcon, Guardian-Vexor, Helios, Incursus, Ishtar, Lachesis, Maulus, Megathron, Megathron Federate Issue, Megathron Navy Issue, Thorax, Tristan, Utu, Vexor, Vexor Navy Issue, Vigilant

Max Velocity +5 on the following ships:
Cormorant, Federation Navy Comet, Hyperion, Kronos, Sin, Vindicator

Inertia Modifier -5% on the following ships:

Adrestia, Arazu, Ares, Astarte, Atron, Brutix, Catalyst, Celestis, Cormorant, Daredevil, Deimos, Dominix, Dominix Navy Issue, Eagle, Enyo, Eos, Eris, Exequror Navy Issue, Falcon, Federation Navy Comet, Ferox, Guardian-Vexor, Harpy, Helios, Hyperion, Incursus, Ishkur, Ishtar, Kronos, Lachesis, Maulus, Megathron, Megathron Federate Issue, Megathron Navy Issue, Merlin, Moa, Phobos, Raptor, Rokh, Sin, Taranis, Thorax, Tristan, Utu, Vexor, Vexor Navy Issue, Vigilant, Vindicator, Vulture

Tech II Ammo

I did some comparison between the tech II ammo types and found that one hybrid ammo type did indeed need some work. I also found that the other turret types had some very underwhelming ammo. Rather than limit myself to only boosting the hybrid ammo, I will also be making some changes to other tech II ammo types. Javelin is quite obviously underpowered. The correlating laser and projectile ammo, Gleam and Quake, are equally underwhelming and they all need some change. Additionally, Hail sticks out as terribly underpowered.

Javelin (all sizes): Removed cap penalty
Javelin, Gleam and Quake (all sizes): Removed tracking speed penalty, added 25% tracking speed bonus
Hail (all sizes): Removed falloff penalty