Ships & Modules

In before "different ships are different, you can't just compare stats like that, we lose damage to falloff" etc.

That said, I agree with you. It really is quite ridiculous. We'd all be infinitely better off if they had just nerfed scorch and called it a day.

I'm terribly sorry.
Sleipnir = 18 slots
Absolution = 17 slots
Is that better? My point remains.

Also, that was a side note and I was comparing Minmatar to all other races rather than specifically Gallente.

The idea is that the higher up resists go, the harder it is to increase it further, and the more weight is given to it. So races with the most evenish resists ends up with highest total resists when you add it all up.

It doesn't hold up in practice, of course, especially for shields, as invulnerabilities give far more total resistance than hardners. Evenish resists is an advantage, not a drawback. Minmatar's evenish t2 shield resists means it can be rounded up without holes with only invulnerabilities, using fewer slots to achieve higher resists.

No, it wasn't.

i'd love to disagree, but i can't

that being said, the issue wasn't so big before the projectile overhaul

Let's look back shall we? Since minmatar got buffed, obviously they've been quite good (no, not OP, they're more or less on par with amarr atm). Prior to that, amarr reigned supreme for a fair while after their buffs and changes to the metagame (the nano nerf alone was enough to make pulses kick ass, did they really need another 25% tracking and a lowering of EM resists?).

Prior to that, we had the nano age. Each race had a few good choices, and matar were definitely not at the bottom, and this was after the first nano nerf, because the things you could do with a nano-nos domi or phoon were absurd. During most of the nano-age, it was amarr who were the laughing stock of the game, not minmatar. I can't really vouch for anything prior to that, as I only started messing around with pvp about 5 years ago, but I think my point is made

It actually was, it just wasn't the only issue. Back before ACs and arties got buffed, the general opinion floating around the forum was that lasers were OP, and that CCP was either going to have to buff projectiles and hybrids, or nerf lasers. They chose the former, but forgot the second half of it.

Any reason why you didn't add up the EHP instead?

Might have something to do with the benefits of remote-repair or the fact that adding a plate or extender module gives a larger percentage increase to low-hp ships than large-hp ships.

^This

Of the shield races:
Minmatar gets EM boost to shield
Caldari gets 0% EM to shield and boost to... thermal.

Of the armor races:
Amar gets explosive boost to armor
Gallante get 10% explosive resist to armor and boost to kinetic.

Incidentally, nonsucky races on top

One would hope it would have better EHP. It gets a resist bonus. The Sleipnir gets an active tank bonus. When you ignore one of the ship's bonuses, it's going to look defensively gimped.

The fact that the Absolution almost manages to catch up in DPS is a reflection of the fact that lasers have higher base DPS -- you know, to compensate for the absurd powergrid and capacitor requirements, the worse tracking, and the inability to select damage types. If the ships were properly balanced, the Absolution wouldn't be "close," it would be the leader in raw DPS figures by a decent margin -- until you considered the drawbacks of the turrets themselves.