EVE General Discussion

nerfing agility to gallente with 10m/s base speed increase?? srsly??!!
have you guys ever seen an blaster-hyperion accelerating with mwd on? its like throwing a feather against the wind...10m/s more base speed with skill (+25%) maybe 15m/s more base speed without mwd, with mwd roughly about 100m/s higher top speed?? this won't change anything.
basicaly it should be like this:
race with fastest and most agile ships -> weapons with shortest range
race with moderate speed -> moderate ranged weaposn
race with slowest ships -> longest weapon range
and vice versa..

but atm this relation simply is not correct regarding gallente <-> minmataar.
minmaatar has fastest ships, does not need any cap for weapons, has best ammo diversity (range modifiers, all dmg types), has decent range and dmg output.
gallente however have some of the slowest ships (due to armot tanking/plates), need cap for weapons, have crapy range on blasters, crapy dmg on rails.
am i the only one who thinks that there is sth broken by design here??
the solution is simple: either make blasterboats the fastest ships ingame, or significantly boost blaster range/tracking or do a combination of both... --> the key aproach for balancing should be to make the races competitive; competitive in real fighting scenarios, not only on paper..


ps: regarding drones: i'm playing as a 100m+ sp gallente char and i tell you: drones are highly overrated. they need alot micromanagement, they limit your ability to quickly retreat from fight - u can lose them faster than you want, they're only third-choice weapon system in fleet fights, they generate lag. even if this won't ever hapen but i'd like to see drones replaced by any other weapon system.
the only benefits you have from drones: they can attack when you're jammed and you can coose the dmg type. ok, i must admit they can be useful in solo pvp or small engagements - which is seldom happening nowdays..
it realy hurts to see frgs being faster than small sttack drones... --> drones should be much faster across the board...
(but this is just my opinion)

They can't change/fix everything in the game all at once. Compared to the last year's worth of changes, this is several orders of magnitude higher than any of the previous patches. In fact, I think even going as far back as late 2006 I don't recall ever seeing this many changes being introduced at once (of course, we're assuming all of these are slated for the winter xpac, which might be a bit presumptuous). Give em time.

Ac's and Arty Canes fleets replaced by those new throw away hit n'blow.

Why not, I can see a lot of good options with new destroyers buff to gank some of those bs's with cheaper throw away

One thing I see lacking here is that the Coercer only has one mid slot. People have been clamoring for 2 mid slots on both this and the Retribution so they can be included with all the other ships of their type as viable PvP options. CCP - You'd make a lot of people very happy if those changes get included.

Gallente Agility

Sooo....have been playing around with this:



Source

Based on the new and old agility data of Megathron it seems that in absolute numbers acceleration will increase slightly (i.e. going from 0 to 100 km/s the new Mega will reach the speed faster), but in relatives terms, for example time-to-warp which is always 0.75 of vmax the new Gallente lineup will feel more sluggish.

Cala

I mis-read that part too (about the agility being a nerf). I think the straight-line speed thing will be quite a poor benefit imo. It will mean that no only can Gallente be kited with their slightly faster 10% better speed but they can be out manoeuvred too.

Hmmm. Will have to get on Sisi and see how the low agility plays. I'm not liking the sound of it for just 10% speed buff. :-/

But the only data I see on the files is a +5% to the agility of Gallente Ships, there's no data directly related to Inertia or Mass for most of the ships.

LOL @ 90% Web effect any freighter pilot will want of these escorting it.... insta warp freighter all the way to jita

Yup Cala, you're right. Thanks for the correction.

No.
All (T-2) missiles will loose negative effects to ship hulls.