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OK i guess i have to say it again why use rails when you can use the much better arty or autocannons buffing the ship isnt going to make the gun any better

Edit: I wish people would read past posts because this "make the ships faster" is becoming a dead horse

I would normaly agree with you but I dont think you read the post. It wisely suggest that the speed and aglity boost be placed on the Hybirds not the ship. So the real question is will Winmatars pick auto cannons for range and dmg selection or blaster/rails for more speed?

There is this place called the Sphere of Commitment. In this place of hell you are subjected to energy neutralizers, scramblers and stasis webifiers. This place, is extremely hard to escape. This place of pain and suffering is where Gallente blasters live. Their optimal range is smack in the middle of the sphere. It is the only short range high damage weapon platform that can not live outside of the sphere or it will do nothing for damage. Chances are, you took some damage getting to this place where your damage can be applied. Being scrammed and webbed means you will not be coasting out of the Sphere of Commitment anytime soon without dying.

I see some people say to give blasters better optimal range to fix them. To what extent? Even if it was double, you still would be in the sphere if you wanted to do any meaningful damage. So change to longer range ammo with blasters? OK, but then your damage will be pointless and why are you even there? So if the optimal was increased where Gallente blaster ships could apply antimatter damage and not be inside the sphere they would basically be something like auto cannons, except no damage selection and you burn cap shooting. At that point, you might as well just fit auto cannons and save yourself the trouble.

I see some people say increase the alpha. OK, but why would you go with blasters with artillery does the same job, with no cap usage and at incredible range, well outside the sphere? Again, you might as well just go with artillery.

So what about tracking increase you say? They are already getting an increase, but it really is not making it worth getting that close. Increase it more you say?? So then it will be a support murder machine. No thanks.

Different damage type selection? *sigh* Like missiles and projectile ammo? Why? That still wont fix them. Why would you go with blasters to pick damage type when missiles and projectiles do the same thing from the comfort of being outside the sphere?

There really is only one thing left. DPS. Yes they already have the best, but it is only by 7-10% better. Hardly worth getting into a tackled situation for such a tiny edge. Now some of you who do the solo thing or even very, very small skirmishes will blasters will swear they are great now. OK, but what about larger fights? Medium to large and extremely large?? Bottom line is they are horrible at those. No reason what so ever to take your 7-10% DPS advantage and try and chase down the enemy ships who are mostly faster, more agile and have been pissing damage all over your face the whole time while you try and get into optimal range to do any real damage.

The only choice really is to increase the DPS more. And by more I don't mean some **** poor 10% or some crap like that. I am talking upwards of 20-25%. Time to make it really worth getting into that sphere of hell. Time to make that sphere of hell be what the enemy calls being close to you when your ripping into them with blasters. I know some of you will cry out and say things like, "But, but the Vindicator will become a monster!" Yeah well the Nightmare and Machariel are monsters in their own right so why not the Vindicator?

Now in order to not do the cheap and easy way out and give them larger alpha strikes, the way to go is dramatically reduce ammo size and cost evenly. Then increase the rate of fire of blasters a lot. Adjust the base damage and rof till you wind up with 20-25% DPS.

Just please do not turn blasters into some wannabe version of something we already have on another weapon platform. Blasters is all about getting in their face and doing large amounts of DPS and melting them. Not insanely over the top tracking or long optimal range or really good falloff or any of that.

Blasters is MASSIVE damage per second!

boosting blaster ships mobility would solve this issue. don't forget that the blaster issues are not from the guns alone.

so my eagle will be able to chase down a zealot?

I said blaster ships, not hybrid ships in general.


buuuut, maybe caldari gunboats could get a bit more of mobility too...

Tried to read as much of this threadnaught as I could... Sorry if reiterating.

Having been flying blaster boats for years, and as well having tried to use rails in PvP. Awful.

Here are the biggest issues for Gallente ships.

1. Too slow.
2. Not very agile.
3. Not enough tank if they are going to be slow and not agile.
4. Hybrids are pretty much fail across the board.
5. Drones not good enough.

Blasters:
1. Not enough damage output
2. Not enough range
3. Not enough tracking

Rails:
1. Not enough damage output
2. Not enough tracking

For a drone-centric society, Gallente are as well awful nerfed in the drone department. Gallente ships should be bristling with drones and have major drone bonuses, more than they currently have. Gallente ships should make drones faster, hit harder, and they should make them tougher. They do to some extent now but not nearly enough.

How do we fix these issues?

1. Give gallente ships a webber range bonus
2. Make them more agile
3. Give blasters a range bonus - even small blasters should hit effectively out to 10 km. Every other small weapon does.
4. Tank bonuses if they are going to be slow. Major tank bonuses.
5. More drones, more drone CPU, more drone buffs
6. Make rails do more DPS than blasters but unable to hit at close range. We are talking about higher technology weapons here supposedly. Why are they so fail? If not this then at least more tracking for rails and more DPS for rails.

Not saying all of these must be adopted, but a combination of these ideas must be adopted. It's illogical to think that ships as badly nerfed as Gallente have been would even be built in our "future culture" of EVE as is. They suck too bad.

I'm a Gallente Pilot, and I find Rails to be kinda disappointing, but I guess I have to ask, even if my ship goes faster, why would I want to use Rails, if Artillery is so much better and have less draw back on cap and such? From what I've seen, though the ship itself may need some love, the Gallente weapons need alot more....

If just a dps buff makes blasters viable ill eat my hat. They need utility/versatility otherwise they will continue being the race that just kills one or two targets then spends the next 5 -10 mins moving to the next target. Travel time will ruin any dps advantage you have if you survive long enough to even get in range.

This is of coarse only going to matter in medium to large battles So if you want them to only have a spot in solo and very small group pvp, a dps buff is fine.

Please increase base t2 webs to 75%.