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a) Hybrid turret reload time will be 5 seconds. there is no better ammo than faction antimatter
b) Hybrid ammo will be 50% smaller (and turret capacity reduced to keep same number of charges). still dont know how is this gonna help
c) Blaster damage +5% (except XL turrets). improvement,but irrelevant
d) Railgun tracking +5% (except XL turrets) good improvment

a) hope they will do something about T2 blaster long range ammo -if they don't then I'll hope the ship will have tools to catch prey and hold it, like enough med slots or speed

b)this will help when you use cap booster charges, actually this is a huge improuvement

c) well meh the +5% but, let's not cry too much if this 5% is on top of the already 10% on SISI.
We're arround the numbers a lot of players already stated in different threads if it's total 15%, coupled with tracking increase this might be the top solution for blasters dmg and application issues.

Now this doesn't help the ship get in range fast enough or be fast enough. Let's wait for ship tweaks and if they're good after this, might well be enough i'd say.

d) I wouldn't say good, I'd say baby step. Now if those 5% are on top of the current 10% (I guess) it's not bad, depends if the mid/long range ammo will receive some bonus has well like projectiles ammo. More base ROF also would be nice, like 5 to 7.5% on top of current stats.

Somehow I have the feeling this could be it for hybrids, with ship tweaks that are needed on top of these to actually make them competitive, then we will not be talking about gallente, we will be talking about gallente AND caldari.

Edit: This is where the whole difference will be set between caldari and gallente ship bonus, both must be competitive and attractive with different uses, so ships bonus work will be a lot harder I guess.

The 10% dmg boost was only for rails, so that's only 5% more damage on blasters, which is not near enough to make up for the **** range.

So I put together a post to contribute to a previous discussion on this topic. Things I thought were justified given the changes to pulse lasers and auto-cannon. Changes I thought were most likely to happen. Mind you, there's nothing regarding long range hybrid turret (rail-gun). There is nothing wrong with rails. Beams and Artillery are just better and artillery has also made beam lasers outmoded (at-least, based on current popular doctrines). The most important suggestion was a increase to stasis webifier range. Which would help alot of pilots that have difficulty immobilizing targets. There should also be a increase in scrambler range in retrospect.

"Decided to contribute instead of just critique ....

Proxyyyy's Changes (slight increases that will increase the close range pvp viabilty of blasters)

Blaster Turret (excluding capital turret)
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Minus 20% - Hybrid Turret Activation

15% increase - Optimal
30% increase - Falloff
10% Increase - Tracking

Minus 15% - Signature Resolution

12.5% increase - Damage Modifier
Minus 11% - Duration

Gallente Battleship/Cruisers/Destroyers/Frigates (T2) (Base, Blanket Increase)
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Minus 10% - CPU

10% Increase - PowerGrid

20% increase - Structure

Base inertia or mass should be modified in some way as to increase agility of all gallente ships. Making gallente ships the most agile (faster align time and acceleration (turn rate etc)) bla bla bal.

Stasis Webifier 2
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I also think stasis webifier 2 Optimal, should Increase from 10,000m - 12,500 (30% increase in range, when overloading ofc). This is a broad boost to armor ships effectiveness, when engaging ships with higher velocity (solo). Increasing the margin for error for a Cynabal for example.

Heat/Thermodynamics = tracking increase for all turrets (just makes sense)
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Another idea I had was a change or addendum to the current heat mechanics. Over Heated turrets should also have a increase in tracking along with increasing turret rate of fire. Currently that's not the case."

blaster issues are compounded by 3 problems:

problem 1: they don't do enough damage for their extremely short range
problem 2: blaster ships are too slow for the ranges they operate
problem 3: besides 1 or 2 rare cases (nano shield hyperion), the best tank that maximizes your cap available for the mandatory mwd and weapon consumption also hampers their mobility even further.



so, how you fix the problems?

Fixes for problem 1:
A) either make them AC's Mk. II (boost range)
or
B) give them a massive damage boost and cut range accordingly (best option would be to cut enough range so that L blasters get outdamaged at 12-14km, and get piffle damage beyond the 15km. from this you can apply a similar fix to M, altho with shorter ranges).

A) doesn't require any further fixes, but it's not desireable since besides homogenizing the entire short range lineup, matari ships are still more mobile and can deal more types of damage.
B) requires that problem 2 is fixed, and this is the crux of the problem, since that means to make blaster ships more mobile than matari ships.

Fixing problem 3 is much more complicated since armour rigs and plates are also the domain of amarr, and that means that fixing these mods for galente also means an indirect boost to amarr.


so, presented by these problems, we are confronted by 3 ways to fix them
1 - Fixing problem A the AC way (bleh)
2 - Fixing problem A and B the damage + higher mobility way (community divided)
3 - complete removal of hybrids from the game, SP refunded and caldari and galente re-focus on missiles and drones respectively.


in all honesty, as time goes by, I'm inclined further and further for the removal option since that will solve this issue for good, and I can finally stop imaging myself doing bull rushes in a deimos and delivering pain on someone's face.

lol the taranis was already good. These changes wont effect the major blaster platforms much, lets hope they are just the start.

a) Neutrons with Null L are perfectly competitive with 800mm ACs out to 25-30km, before tracking enhancers. With the reduced reload time, it's feasible to fight with null and switch ammo when you get in range. Medium blasters need some love, tho.
b) Hybrid ammo was twice as large as projectile ammo, with similar ROF (or higher with rails), hybrid boats tend to carry cap boosters. Good for long engagements.

Its competitive until they load barrage ammo then its not even close

Ok this has probably been brought up before but why not have all of that shiny faction stuffsz actually mean something when fit to a ship of it's faction?

In regards to Gallente:
*** Make the 100mn Fed Navy ABs able to fit on BC and above. These ABs offer NO AGILITY when fit on a strategic cruiser or BC and thus would be perfect to solve the Gallente speed problem to keep range without encroaching on Minnie agility.

***Apply the Damage bonus only to the Fed Navy mag stabs and only apply it to Gallente BC and above, else default==1.125dam,10%rof

and so on and so on.

Ever notice those FactionModifiers in EFT? Maybe some dev, somewhere, a loooong time ago was waay ahead of me

Barrage moves the cross over point to 20km. In practice, most AC boats will use two slots for TEs, which increases the range considerably. And makes barrage useless compared to faction inside point range.

Theorycrafting here, but with the lessened cap use and increased tracking, a mega might reasonably drop cap booster and/or web for tracking computers. That would let it match tempest/mael performance inside warp disruptor range. While retaining the option to use high damage ammo at close range with just 5s swap time.