Ships & Modules

Because it was about time Caldari got another hybrid ship.

Gallente
Primary: Blasters Secondary: Drones
Amarr
Primary: Lasers Secondary: Drones
Minmatar
Primary: Autocannons Secondary: Missiles
Caldari
Primary: Railguns Secondary: Missiles

Missiles were never supposed to be the go-to weapon system for Caldari, however, because railguns suck, that's how they wound up.

Because we needed yet another thread on this subject? For us Caldari rail/hybrid users, let it go. You have the Drake and Tengu. Let us have the Naga.

Cruise missile with their own TP! With stacking values (if we are voing to shietstorm, the why not going all the way?)

I wasn't playing (had a break) in time Naga was going live on SiSi, so I couldn't test it with torps, but - looking at stats - it surely was crap as hell. But, unfortunately, CCP didn't try to fix it, but instead made Naga all-out hybrid platform leaving EVE with 0 (zero) decent torp/cruise boats. Raven is useless in PvP, and SB is paper-thin with only 3 launchers, viable only for hit and run tactics.

Imagine Naga as:
7.5% bonus to torpedo and cruise missile explosion velocity per level.
7.5% reduction in torpedo and cruise missile explosion range per level.

For skill at level 5 we get (torp/CM) explosion radius 281,25/187,5m, explosion velocity 97,625/94,875 m/s. For big signature/small to no velocity targets (like POS) torpedoes/cruise missiles were always excellent choice. With those two bonuses Naga would be excellent alpha boat (overpowering even art).

When it comes to balancing, remember that session change invalidates all flying missiles/torpedoes for that player. If you manage to destroy torpedo boat before volley reaches you, you'll receive zero damage.

Possible uses:

* Full gank, weak tank. Suicide gank ship for short range assaults. Maximum volley damage for full rack of torp/CM with 5x BCS II and 3x Bay Loading Accelerator I (launcher II, Caldari Navy charges) is 7472 @20km / 4984 @168km. Target painter+web make it easy to deploy full damage to any BC-sized hull, with great chance of coming near maximum damage for cruiser-sized ones. DPS is about 1400/850 from BC-sized hull. Defense? Gank-tanking with huge buffer is best option.

* BC+ killer squad. 1-2 web+TP tacklers in group, 4-8 CM Naga, fit for maximum RoF with decent tank, one Basilisk as logistic. Extreme efficiency against BCs and bigger ships (especially active-tanked BS). Vunerable to small ships and sniper fleets.

* POS bashing. Simply: better damage output than Raven, but with far less tanking ability.

Weakness:

* Missile flaws. Flight time, zero damage if session change occurs. Avoiding damage requires pure speed (direction is not important). Small signature radius = small damage, always (no chance to take full damage to small sig hull). Missiles can be overrun.

* Tank. Slot config like 8/4/4 makes it unable to both tank and tackle (propulsion, target painter, web, scram/disruptor leave no place for shield tank).

* Range. Missiles have binary range limit (100% in range, 0% out of range), you can stay 100m out of range for no damage. Also, torpedoes are point blank weapon only.

This is how good cruise/torpedo boat should be using tier3 BC as an example. I'd love having good torp/cruise ship (BC, BS, maybe even T2/T3), and Naga was first good candidate to that role while in concept stage. Right now large missiles are inferior to medium (HML/HAML), because of no bonus to explosion velocity and radius on most ships. I suppose OP wanted large missile Naga, but had no consistent idea about how should it work.

It tells me that I was right training all guns AND missiles to T2... That way CCP can change the FOTY whenever they like and I just smile and change with them...