Ships & Modules

My money is on: more DPS, less PG requirements for rails. For blasters: more fall-off

That, and they will decrease cpu requirement. You will see what they do come winter, you will laugh, and then you will cry.

Tbh, since they're already working on (new ecm) drones, I'd prefer drones doing what they're told and only what they're told when they're told first.

Well I personally doubt they can squeeze in hybrid changes to winter patch as there have been tons of threads and there has been only one consensus which is that you have to change the ships as well not just the guns if you want to keep blasters/rails unique in what they are.
Because hybrids are only main weapon system that is (partially) shared by two races with different ship bonuses; no gallente ship has optimal bonus and no Caldari ship has a damage bonus for hybrids.
Also no other weapon system is meant to be fitted with both shield and armour tank.

Fixed. There was no reason to fly a blaster ship(bigger than a frig) after the QR patch, as tons of people pointed out during the time it was on sissi.

It is easy to say "We fix hybrids.", but I have yet to see a single CSM or CCP dev that had a solid understanding about the issues and a vision what a hybrid ship(be it caldari or gallente) should actually do in PVP, leave alone a fleshed out baseline idea including the stats that would allow a hybrid hull to actually become useful in general game play(bare frig pvp) where they even if superior in stats get beaten by the meta game 23/7.

he doesn't mean at the same time, he means shield Caldari railboats and armour Gallente blaster platforms both have a bonus to hybrids.

I learn something new every day.
Only now i dont know if projectiles are meant to be fitted with armor tank or shield tank.

Other than projectiles you mean.

And Missiles (Min ships use them a lot and some Amarr ships too). And I won't mention drones.

And we all know Nightmare must be armor tanked.

It's invalid for - projectiles + missiles + laser + drones... What else is there? When a generalization is so full of holes past a certain point, can it still be considered valid?

I mean ship wise only hybrids are fitted to ships that are purely shield tanked (caldari) or pure armour tanked (gallente).
Other races have no hybrid bonuses so they aren't part of the equation just like no other race has laser or Ac bonuses but minmatar or amarr.
So that means hybrids would have to work for two races with completely different ships and not just for one race as was the case with AC's or lasers.

Ofc. you can fit the ships anyway you like but issue is that design wise ships are meant to be used with the bonuses that they have so obviously gallente ships should be viable blasters/rails + fat armour tank (and btw. scorch + shield domi, does more damage then with rails).
Or rather hybrids should be so good that you WANT TO use only them with gallente and caldari ships and not stuff AC's in myrms and so forth.