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The discussion's been happening for several weeks. The current state is after a rebalance of the original balance and will likely have another one (or two) after that. All ships are listed, follow Ytterbium's updates for the condensed info.

https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=1182520#post1182520

gallente just need one or two ships that are minmaxed well for providing dps in large fleets fights. that's not the same thing as saying that gallente ships are bad. it means that they are bad at having an ideal rank-and-file blob ship among their number. being on the "most used" list means having a ship that is a vanilla damage dealing ship for group pvp. the gallente lack that. outside of that one (imporant) category, the gallente are an extremely diverse, interesting and even strong race. make the hyperion or the brutix or something more efficient for just showing up and shooting primary and fitting a buffer.

we don't need to redo the entire line, we just need to focus on getting the gallente a big, reasonably priced ship with guns that is ideal for showing up to armor fleets or shield fleets fitted with guns and shooting ****. that ~lack~ doesn't make all gallente ships bad nor does it damn all gallentean ships built by the ship design principles that fail to be effective in big fights.

bringing this back to point: all of this about "gallente are not on top used ships" is irrelevant to frigate balance seeing as the gallente T2 frigates have always been awsome and these days the faction friggies from gallente are as well. moreover, none of these ships you are talking about (hurricane, drake, etc) are even remotely comparable to the frigate balance issue at hand, so don't say that i took this discussion elsewhere by bringing up caps and supers. gallente can be extremely strong as frigates without redesigning their core concepts, bonuses, etc. we have seen that with T2. the problem with gallente T1 is that the high-tier tristan has split weapons and ultimatley boring base stats and the promising incursus is tier 2 and has minimal slots/fittings/hp. despite these limitations we have seen, over the years, decent results from pioneering incursus pilots. I have no doubt that with a little bit of love the T1 gallente frigates will be just as mighty as the T2 (ares, enyo, ishkur and taranis are all very strong albeit in different ways) in comparison.

gallente had ve many points in eve's history where they were considered extremely powerful. right now they are ont he verge of being fuckin awesome. love for their T1 frigates, and maybe some minor changes to a T1 BC or BS (like removing the brutix or hyperion active armor bonuses in favor of falloff bonuses and then buffing their shield and amor base HP or resists) and a revamp of info warfare links (okay and maybe a little love for active armor like making them cycle at the beginning) and we could see a shipline that is extremely powerful. gallente ships are often just vexed by all these little hindrances everywhere you turn that if they were systematically dealt with we would have awesome ships without having to revamp the shipline entirely.

the only this i see is that Amarr no longer will have an mining Frigat.... Great job CCP.

im glad im not a new player to eve... with nothing to start out in.

One thing to note about the Punisher, while it got the 10% cap thingy removed from the bonuses, with the new recharge rate it actually balances out pretty much the same, not so great active fit, but if your buffer and with lasers, no change really. What I *really* believe is the best bit for the Punisher is that speed change, 287m/s up to 330m/s That thing is pretty damn fast.

*edit* Oh hell lets make it a slightly longer post

Been flying the Incursus, and well I'm in love with it assuming you have Gallente Frig 5 a single small armour rep II nets you 120hp per cycle. Pretty substainal bit of HP on a frig, certainly opens it up to some different engagements.

Hmm I like the Idea of 3 turrets on the Merlin but then it should be able to fit 2-3 unbonused rocket launchers as well.

I too would rather have 4th hi slot and 2 lows instead of 3 Hi's and 3 lows (sounds too much like a rifter).

To elaborate further on the Merlin I feel the rockets help the turrets in filling in for their short comings, examples would be like on a blaster fit enemy fly's out of range well the rockets will still make hits till you can get back in range or you can switch to longer range ammo.

This is all they could do since the dev blog?

http://caldari.eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=1295&view=ships_weapons&m=05&y=2012

and

http://gallente.eve-kill.net/?a=alliance_detail&all_id=1330&view=ships_weapons&m=05&y=2012

Show a very different story to the Global Killboards
Notice how BOTH Caldari and Gallente have the Myrmidon in their Top 10

These actually go as far as to show that our ship usage on a regular basis in low-sec (Caldari-Gallente FW) is far more diverse. I guarentee if you expand that out to all of Low-Sec, that we might see more T3 and Tier 3 creeping in to those lists; simply because they are flavours of the month.

Still these in my opinion show a much better indication of the ships that are actively used on a monthly basis by players who are consistantly fighting in both Small and Large engagements.

Changes that will go live with Inferno, honestly have not been well thought through and lack luster as they are taking baby steps with them; which is going to be very very bad for the game not just PvP wise where it will have the opposite effect that what they are hoping it will have but actually the markets as well will suffer.

like the new ships, but honestly i hope there also redoing the minerals to build them as son previously useless ships that were insanely cheap to build are now good ships still ridiculously cheap to build