EVE General Discussion

Cleaned this thread up a bit. Stay kosher guys, and live in harmony or I will get floundered.

Using eve-kill top 20 to judge performance is pretty silly for several reasons.

To name one, drakes are being used much less in null-sec fleet doctrines since HML nerf. You don't mention this, yet it has a huge impact on the topic you present. Despite being used less in those doctrines, drake still remains on the top 20, nearly tied with the hurricane.

Pretty much every ship on the top 20 is being used in null fleet doctrines. This doesn't mean they are overpowered. This means that they fit the current tactical meta game, among other things.

Then there is also the issue of what skills people have available to them. I don't know the statistics on this, but let's say more eve players have the skills to fit minmatar ships and fly them well. Thus, more people would fly minmatar ships, and generate more kills with them not because they are winning every fight, but because there's just more of them out there. That being said, one can assume the top 20 eve-kill list represents more so what ships are being flown the most, then what ships are the strongest. This argument is further reinforced by null-sec doctrines, where the FC is generally deciding what the pilots will be flying. With the CFC having a doctrine for maelstroms, having many doctrines that use huggins and scimitars, hurricane doctrines, TFI doctrines etc., many pilots have probably trained projectile and minmatar spaceship skills to a competent level.

TL:DR eve-kill top 20 is a terrible reference for determining ship balance, without including other relevant statistics.

The first line contains 'nerf' and 'drake', that alone should have told you to stop reading, you clearly have to much faith in the eve community.

I support anything that would result in a Fleet Issue skinned Hurricane, even if it only had 1/1/1 fitting