Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Hybirds can only do Kin Therm.Also its fine as it is

Now, if you were arguing that lasers should get a choice to fit between Therm high & EM high damage at any range rather than being locked into EM with a bit of therm depending on range, you might have a good point.
If you were arguing that most lasers need their cap use dropped and the silly 'cap reduction' bonus that isn't a bonus removed from the rest of the amarr ships, you might have a point.

But this.... sorry. No.

the main change they need is to be able to drop all the ranges and go with 2 set ranges.

normal crystals could do like 60% em, 40% thermal. this would come in 2 ranges (like UV and microwave)
heat rounds (for lack of a better name) would be like 60% thermal, 40% em. these would also come in 2 range versions.

conflag would be 24/24 a balance
scorch would remain all EM.

this would allow us to have a little control over what we dish out.

by the same token, hybrids can do different damage too.
the same thing, 60% kinetic, 40% therm or maybe tracer rounds with 60% thermal and 40% kinetic.

that would give hybrids a little change as well.

Sure, we can do that, and reduce large pulse laser range to about 10k, maybe upwards of 20 with Scorch.

Lasers have their advantages, which are balanced by the cap use and restricted damage types. Having used the other turrets, I will admit that lasers play very differently, and perhaps don't mesh well with most of PvP "Fly down their throat because you have to tackle them anyway" mentality, but they are very powerful and quite serviceable weapons for those that like to use them to their strengths. On the flipside, I don't use Blasters at all, and wish I could have the skillpoints back for training them---despite their damage they are terrible weapons, their supposed tracking advantage is lost completely in their short range.

If anything, Projectiles need their ammo locked into Kin/Explosive, that selectable damage combined with average range and capless firing is a bit OP. It's almost as if they took the most meaningful drawbacks of turrets and made projectiles immune to them, and compensated with the most meaningless ones like reload time.

What CCP should do instead is: buff rainbow lasers to be viable in combat.

Stun them with how fabulous your lazors are when you fire them!

Posting in a Stealth Russian "I want to use my Paladin to farm Angel Space" thread.

I was thinking this very thing, I would see no issue with allowing T1 crystals to degrade, albeit slowly; A new minor ISK sink for the benefit of EVE as a whole.

+1

Hate to be a physics nazi(apearently a certain type of socialist is no go), but there is a huge difference between CERN and a laser(namely, CERN isn't any sort of laser, nor does it have to do with positrons)

plus what everyone else said about it not being the only one

Nope.

Not unless Hybrids gain an EXP/EM Ammo type as well.

this is why i said keep the em/thermal and just vary the damage between em and thermal by using diff crystals.

and caldari doesnt only HAVE to use kinetic, they just get a bonus to it.

hybrids should be able to change between normal or "tracer" rounds which would do more thermal than kinetic. we still maintain the kin/therm or em/therm, but we would vary between em.

keep peeps on their toes