Ships & Modules

Rails are fine.

The point of rails is that they do damage at extreme range and sacrifice DPS to do so. Please provide solid proof that rails do, in fact, need a buff before a buff can be considered. If you have nothing more to go on than "I feel like they don't do enough DPS", then it's all in your head.

I just cant see any reason to use them, the damage is too low to use outside of special circumstances. Why bother with long range when you can fit an MWD to your mega and close the gap? Why do Moa and Rokh have such crazy tanks? They're out of range of their enemies anyways. Rails may have great range on Caldari ships but what good is it if they can't dent their enemies.

Not everyone Does 0.0 though

Rails need 10% more damage and 20% more range!

-Liang

and no cap usage all types ammo as well as a webber and a scram ammo, this combined with the dps increase Liang wisely advocates would allow a Rokh to fit 6 rails with antimmater doing same dps as 8 do today (almost) while another turret shoots webbing and another shoots scramming of the target. IDK if it's me but that would definately make them very viable snipers in all environments.

The only problem is that their primary advantage is range. In cruiser and larger classes, that means 150+ km . Given how easy it is to get a warpin on a target >150km away but still on grid (e.g. have someone with a probe launcher, press a button), trying to snipe from that range is very dangerous.

It's a deeper problem that can't be fixed until ongrid warping is looked at.

If you just increase rail damage, then you'll still think the Gallente railboats are better than the Caldari ones.

The problem comes down to individual ships. For example, as rail platforms, the Naga works but the Ferox doesn't, while the Rokh is okay. It comes down to bonuses and ship fittings (and tiers, tbh). So a blanket change is, as usual, inappropriate; you need individual fixes for individual ships.

Explained succesfully since 2005: 4xNeutron Blaster II, even better now with 5xNeutron blaster II and buffed to boot... woohoo!

2x range bonus does mean you can throw high-damage ammo at people who have to shoot back with lower-damage ammo if you're talking same-class, but it also means you have a minimum effective range that's a lot easier for smaller targets to get under and a lot closer to where larger targets want you. And that high-damage ammo isn't really all that high-damage (rail dps is "generally" potentially higher than arty DPS but often not until a lot of fights are over and you're a lot more reliant upon and a lot less capable of dictating range).

Hence, blasters. Same as why Feroxes often run around with blasters or ACs- you're flying a brick. If you don't throw it in their face you have to hope they're nice and hang out where you want them long enough to die.