Warfare & Tactics

as a minmatar pilot, i can say you're wrong and you should feel bad about yourself.

Weapons are messed up a bit that way - outside of just ammo but can also be seen as simply an area to dispute and argue about.

All weapons can be jammed via ECM, FOF's work around it but these are rarely brought along except when people expect ECM to be used against them -- "they suck". Powered weapons also have limits with respect to neut/nos taking them off-line.

The delay on missile delivery of damage is one balancing factor to all the flexibility that missiles get. If a missile can reach a target, it will deliver the same damage at max and min "able to hit" ranges yet you won't hear any end to Caldari pilots complaints about these weapons, even without tracking considerations nor falloff reductions involved in their use. "missiles suck!"

Projectiles tend to be what everyone bases all their arguments upon no matter what weapons systems they use. They are highly preferred for fitting due to these non-powered issues as well as their tracking being superior. The lack of penalty to their falloff is why many like using short-ranged ammo all the time vs trade-offs of using longer ranged ammo. There really aren't many downsides to these weapons the way they are these days. That falloff use is why a lot of your "EFT Warrior" numbers look so nice on paper but tend to come in a tad shot in reality. As such, always look at some claims about them.

When arguments come up about weapons, blasters are always referenced and usually more "EFT warrioring" going on. A Moros can do "big numbers" yet those huge numbers have under 6k optimal and 19k falloff. Such ranges, for these monster ships, are pretty trivial but, again, the "theory of use" rules most such arguments.

Lasers can swap ammo and instantly be back shooting - all others take 10 seconds to swap that damage type and, in a fight, 10 seconds can be a chunk of time. Kin/therm tend to be very strong choices against pretty much anything PvE or PvP if you don't know what you will be facing. (what you load vs what you may pack along "in case").

So on and so forth.

The number of threads on these topics is "historically" numerous and often hotly argued - especially by whomever may be seen as having an advantage at any given time.

Welcome to the "dissatisfied with my options" club - it always has room for more and a growing population.

That may have been true at one point, but looking at the actual weapon stats, ACs actually have equal or better tracking than Blasters now.