EVE General Discussion

I think with the overhaul to amarr ships that's talked about in the dev blog they should look at giving amarr 2 ship bonuses like every other race has.
You only get 1 ship bonus because the other one is always essentially "you can use your racial gun, lasers." That's like if projectile turrets all took 700 pg to equip so min ships had to have one of their two bonuses as a reduction to pg cost of turrets.

It's just silly that amarr gets half the bonus on their ships. It also cuts down drastically on variety and eliminates so many ships as being pointless to even try flying when compounded by the inability to ever fit properly sized weapons. In the dev blog they talk about some ships completely outshining others and ships not being able to fill roles. Well for amarr a big part of that is this need for one bonus to always be "you can use the weapons you use." The other issue is that anything under a battleship size absolutely must under-size their weapons.

So fix lasers to not have such ungodly requirements so ships can have a mix and match of two ship bonuses instead of one and can actually use weapons of the appropriate size. This will allow for ships to have more variety and distinguish themselves in roles from one another.

Amarr are fine. Caldari could use more mid slots.

I think we're just trying to say your complaint is invalid.

All I read was "I want to mix weapons on my ships."

The theory was that all Amarr ships had the bonus built into their lazers, as they were already extremely powerful in most aspects, and the high cap use kept other races from using them easily.

Perhaps we've gotten away from that, or perhaps we need to embrace it more strongly.

Or perhaps they are fine as it stands.

And Tachyon beams.

Actually i do agree with the OP, laserz right now arent the powerfull they should be, so the bonus for capacitor is sort of dumb, as he said, is just a bonus to allow amarr use their own native weapon. but they might as well just use other weapons and have the same effectiveness.


Gleam and conflagration needs a DPS boost also, currently navy multifrequency makes all the damage DPS crystals useless.

and last maybe there should be a global laser capacitor reduction need, ships that lack the capacitor bonus, just cannot use lasers at all really, or else they drain themselves in a few seconds.

This, i could not get it more right than this guy, amarr were mean to have uber capacitors so this makes a lot of sense.

I agree with this completely! And this is a much better way than using up one of the 2 ship bonuses on what essentially amounts to "you can use the weapon you're supposed to use."

I'm a noob so I don't pretend to know everything. But it was plainly obvious that this was one of those things that meandered away from it's original intent and is now a vestigial limb. It makes it very hard for amarr ships to have niches it seems since the developers only really have one bonus to work with when developing ships.

Amarr identity of active rep and neut use sounds awesome and much more clearly defined than it is now.

Ahh you made me believe there was a new dev blog I hadn't read yet.... Shame on you.

So to re word because it wasn't exactly clear... You want more bonuses besides cap efficiency?