Ships & Modules

Perhaps a CCP Fozzie or another dev would care to comment on these items -

Right now we have 2 flavors of advanced ammo to choose from for each T2 turret type (eg; Null and Void for T2 Blasters, Gleam and Aurora for T2 Beams, and so on.)

In the database there is also a third, unpublished flavor for each turret T2 type, such as:

Storm and Shock (EM+Thermal damage for T2 AutoCannons and Arties)
Blaze and Lux (Explosive+EM damage for T2 Pulses and Beams)
Desolation and Bolt (EM damage for T2 Blasters and Rails)

While these items and their respective stats have probably been languishing in the database for who knows how long and thus aren't anywhere near being ready for general consumption, the concept of mixing up the typical damage types for a given race's turret types outside of ACs and Arties seems intriguing at least. Or perhaps that might not be a good thing?

Those ammo types used to be in the game, but was removed. I don't know the specific reasoning behind it, but we don't need to homogenize the different weapons with this type of ammo. Don't get your hopes up at scanning through the database, there's plenty of other modules and ships in there you will never get to use.

Because ammo with severe drawbacks worked so well in the past, right?

I'm going to assume they are NPC-only flavors of ammo specifically added to make coding stuff simpler.

Let me rephrase that: Where's the severe drawbacks for Phased Plasma/EMP?

I would prefer they fix the T1 Ammo we have before adding new T2 versions.

8 different types of Hybrid Ammo and Laser Crystals and how many are really used.

I would like to see a system where they stream line it so that all types of Ammo have a use in all gun types, a reason to role long T1 in a Pulse Laser instead of Scorch or long Hybrid Ammo in a Blaster over Null.

Say 3-4 Ammo ranges per gun like projectiles. Laser Gamma a copy of Multi that does mostly Therm where Multi does mostly EM. Projectile Ammo that effects falloff. Long rang Laser Crystals in Pulse Lasers doing as much Dmg as Scorch at slightly shorter range. Long range Blaster Hybrid Ammo firing to null ranges for good Dmg.

Make guns less dependent on needing T2 Ammo while T2 ammo retains a slight edge. The Dev's said something about an Ammo revamp, I would like an entirely new system, redefine how range is used in EVE.

Five seconds isn't that long, what is needed is a real reason to swap. Tracking and falloff for small ships or a slight mid range kind of deal with low damage as an emergency backup, Ammo Dmg type balance fore T2 Ships between Therm and Kin.

If a certain Ammo type isn't doing the job then that is the time to take 5 seconds and pull another, the point being they are not teeny tiny increments of increase but drastically effect how your guns work.

wanna compare void to hail?

It's too long to swap for 10% range difference. Where for lasers some people actually bother to do it since it's instant and there's no downside other than hassle.

Hail

Void

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3 out of top 5 are projectile weapons, 1 hybrid

5 out of top 10 are projectile weapons, 2 hybrid

Blasters are OP...or not