Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hello everyone, this is my first go on this forum, so be nice :)

I've been thinking about the hybrid turrets, and the way they use cap for shooting.
Afaik, the theory behind the hybrids is that they are a sort of middle ground between the winmatar non-cap guns, and the cap-hungry lazors. Now with the 5 sec reload time, it seems to be even more balanced as far as being a middle thing goes.

So, this is my suggestion to how we could make them even more half winmatar / half amarr.
The way railguns fire their projectiles in reality is by charging up huge capacitors, and then realease such a hell of electrical current, that the railgun itself tends to break from the power the projectile has when fired.

The guns in themselves have their own capacitors that takes a lot of time to charge up, so I have a bit of a hard time seeing why railguns in EVE even have a reloadtime, other that having to add another projectile into the barrel which doesnt take long. This is because there is no cap recharge time involved, since the cap is taken from the ships "main cap" so to speak.

What if the guns had another attribute, namely "Capacitor charge level" and " Capacitor recharge rate". This would change the way hybrid guns fire in the way that when they are activated, no cap is drawn directly from the ships main capacitor instantly, but the main regeneration of the capacitor is lowered, so that is the ship is being neuted, or are otherwise out of cap, the guns will not stop shooting all together, but will only draw the little capacitor that the main capacitor manages to generate. The guns will not be able to fire before the guns internal capacitor is fully charged, so if under heavy neuting, a pair of small hybrid guns could have a RoF of 5-20 seconds, depending on neut-cycling and base cap recharge.

Before everyone starts crying because this may seem like a really huge boost to blasters again, by being able to fire constantly as the autocannons can, think about this. A battleship with railguns, using cap hungry ammo keeping his guns activated at all times while being neuted. The railguns in themselves are hard enough on the cap to keep it more or less at 0 at all times, which will make it impossible to use tackling mods of any sort because you keep feeding all the cap to your guns. So this is just as much a drawback in certain situations as it is a buff in others.


So that is that. Hope you have some constructive comments to share! Fly safe, and may you never fall short of cap :)

Why have capacitors on each gun when u can just wire it to the ships capacitor. All those engineers who worked hard on simplifing the ships capacitor harnesses are rolling in their virtual graves.

Give charge time = dmg. For a rack of large rails that has 800 dps, charging it for one minute to produce a volley of 48k.

Psh, I would fit one time use guns for that purpose. Do or die. Gallante fix.

Guns in Eve are supposed to do instant damage. Now, if this was pre-release or another game, I would be behind it. A lot of balancing would have to go around it. Projectiles would have to take time to reach a target like missiles. Lasers would be the only true instant strike weapon. That just isn't how Eve works though. For the sake of simplicity, it is not very realistic.

My understanding of the idea is something like this:

Click button... wait for charge... fire

That is delayed damage; you have to wait. With sufficient enemy alpha, you could die without getting off a shot even if you hit fire first. In lag situations this would be... bad. It would further weaken hybrids from an alpha strike perspective, an area in which they are already weak.

Practically speaking, we could argue that the first volley is charged automatically and the cycle time includes the charging time for the next round. That would be the way I would do it.

isn't that what hybrids already do basically?