EVE General Discussion

I tried creating a special launcher for Gallente ships that shoot white flags at the enemy, but CCP Rise and Fozzie used their veto against that idea.

But that's ok, I'll find a way around them. Need to talk to the Art guys to change the Megathron hull to a croissant.

Only if the ship's cap can be filled with Brie 800's

Came for the Blue, was not disappointed.

Simply not true, I have never had a problem getting and winning fights using missiles. My Drake gets 650dps cold (thats with incomplete missile skills) and my condor and hookbill are brilliant for kiting / brawling respectively.
Not to mention the fact that stealth bombers are much much fun!
Plus you don't have to worry about tracking disruptors or not being able to fire because you're capped out.
Then there's the fact that Caldari do also have ships that utilise hybrids.

I hear the Gallente will accept anyone these days.

Unless of course you are building off world colonies that they want the rights too

Funnily enough the gallente can't even beat the caldari even when they outnumber them 10 to 1 during the gal-cal war. Also the gallente are genocidal that they even bombarded us caldari from orbit. I'd rather be enslaved under amarr than join the federation.

May I request, you lobby the art team to change all Gallente drones into frogs of different sizes?

This one made me laugh. I monitored some stuff for a while.

I recall these statements "back in the day" - while the Drake sat as the #1 used PvP ship on killboards for 20 weeks strait, with 12 of those weeks showing their missile launchers as the #1 used weapons system for PvP kills - people still kept tossing the "missiles suck for PvP" mantra out.

As for the OP - it's a fun topic.

Hybrids are very power hungry - just under lasers. Both these weapon systems can be neuted off line while missiles and projectiles can't. They also are limited in their damage types, hybrids are just "better" types than lasers - in most people's opinion.

In the very long ago days, before my time, Gallente were really powerful - the most powerful EWar in the game. There were no stacking penalties for EW so sensor damps could take targeting down to virtually nothing.

They added stacking penalties and ECM jumped to the top of the heap as being so OP that EW and ECM were often used interchangeably - synonym style. Then that changed to bring it back in line.

Minmatar were easily seen as top of the heap for quite some time but early on they were seen as the underdog - weakest of the ships. From a battleship, using short-ranged ammo with AC's, I could tap ships at over 90km out. "Well you aren't doing much damage like that!" - didn't matter. SOME damage was better than NO damage and no other short ranged weapons system could hit those ranges - even today, many projectile users don't bother using any type of ammo outside of the hardest hitting short-ranged stuff. Why? It all loses damage as most combat is done in falloff vs optimal.

tweak, tweak, tweak...

Across my 5 years here, I haven't seen a single race that has not been "preferred" at one time or another with this or that hull for a different type of combat - small gang through fleets... The amarr BS fit with projectiles - a popular nullsec fitting a few years back.... So on and so forth. They all have "flexibility" on fitting them to one degree or another.

It's a fun thing to look at.

Best T2 and T3 resist profiles.
Best drones and drone ships.
More drones on their turret ships than the other races.
Highest tracking close range weapons combined with the highest number of viable/versatile tracking bonused hulls.
Highest DPS.
Versatile slot layout, simple to fit.

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