Ships & Modules

Do you reckon it's fine? It's done all the time with blasters, but why not with anything else?
I've recently cooked up the following fit:


[Harbinger, Solo]

Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Focused Medium Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
Heavy Pulse Laser II, Imperial Navy Multifrequency M
[Empty High slot]

Y-T8 Overcharged Hydrocarbon I Microwarpdrive
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
X5 Prototype I Engine Enervator
Sensor Booster II, Scan Resolution

Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II

Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I


Valkyrie II x5


Obviously, the fit needs some changes. I may replace some Heavy Pulses with more Focused Medium Pulses in order to fit that high slot, and probably replace the sebo.

Comparing the guns -
Focused Medium Pulse Laser: 6.75+3.75km range, 0.112 tracking
Heavy Pulse Laser: 7.5+5km, 0.102 tracking

All out Heavy Pulses would force me to an 800mm plate, and make the Damage Control meta.
All out Focused Medium Pulses would leave me with 20% powergrid to spare, and less dps.

So, is mixing fine if all guns operate at the same range and receive damage bonuses?

This is particularly common with blaster frigs and cruisers. It's not uncommon to see a nearly full rack of neutrons/ions, with an ion/electron tagged on the end for fitting purposes.

Yeah. Unless you have something in mind to fill the spare fitting, might as well get as much DPS out of your ship as possible.

That's toward long range guns in pve. The range difference among short range guns, especially blasters, are much smaller, thus it's not as big an issue.

Like all rules of this type, it's meant to be broken. If, and only if, you understand exactly why you're doing it.

thread hijack.

[Armageddon, Tach geddon]
Large Armor Repairer II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor Thermic Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Armor Kinetic Hardener II
Heat Sink II
Heat Sink II
Power Diagnostic System II

Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II
Cap Recharger II

Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Tachyon Beam Laser II, Multifrequency L
Medium Beam Laser II, Multifrequency S
Medium Beam Laser II, Multifrequency S
Small Remote Armor Repair System II

Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I
Large Capacitor Control Circuit I


Ogre II x5


Comments?
P.S. And no, im not flying that... yet :)

I'm of the firm belief the only time mixing guns is with blasters, (3 Ions 5 electrons on a dual rep hype for example) to get the most damage, as your range is all kinds of terrible no matter what the size is.

Generally mixing longer range guns in with shorter is balancing the different optimal and falloffs of the guns, if your not careful you could be loosing a lot of potential out of the shorter range smaller guns

Though in your case this problem is easily mitigated with lasers 1 second reload time to keep both in optimal at all times.