Ships & Modules

I fail to see why comparing Gallente to Matar is hard. They are both supposed to be scirmishing brawlers, a a roll wone excels at and the other ...well it doesn't.

I'd be surprised if the buff go far enough. Blaster damage projection is still terrible, and the if the ships use their bonuses they are still going to be to slow due to the speed penalties of armor rigs.

They are talking 20% (which helps larges immesely) fittings which is also pretty huge, and cap somsumption (yay no more capping out a hype with the guns overloaded and a couple hardeners on)

All good things.

Root of the issue remains that unless you shield fit which means only Myrm and Domi gets a cap booster, they are still going to be to slow for their bonuses which doesn't jive with the lack of damage projection

Battlecriusers with still be scarce because you still can't roll primary to primary unless your fleet is 10km apart (because that always happens) so you are still going to be last to arrive on EVERY target so the amount of damage that you are going to do is still going to be inferior to the guy with the cane/harbi/AC myrm that essentially has to click in the general direction and fire on the guns.

The only way I can think of to make Gallente at all desirable is to crank the base speeds about 15% to make up for shield rigging penalties and either knock down Matari falloff or crank the hell out of blaster damage, and I mean 20-25%.

This way you have the option of shield fitting loosing any form of cap protection, being screaming fast, with a crap tank and big damage. Or fitting for balance possibly even active and being able to tank (somewhat) at the expense of speed and DPS.

As it stands you can expect to do 30%-40% of paper DPS due to travel time and falloff losses, made worse by the native armor tanks that don't allow 5 damage mods, and comparatively poor damage project related to both hull speed and weapon system.

Rails would at least be effective IF they could track worth a damn, and if you add enough modules to get the tracking into a reasonable range, the buff they are getting still only amounts so 2/5s of a single magstab, you run out of slots, so damage is distinctly sub-par.

from looking at the guns for minmatar the main thing is not tracking or range its the base damage, and the fire times they have .

there almost the same as blasters, and most of the issues could possibly be solved by decreasing there fire rate by a few more seconds. as it is now the 800mm autos have the same fire rate of a neutron blaster, and that looks to be the same across the board not just that 1 cannon.


so in summery i propose a decrease in fire rates to bring balance to them.

what i propose would cause a bit of crying. all minmatar ships would be high alpha ships with long refire rates the auto cannons would still be shorter to fire then artillery. but im thinking a change of 14 seconds for 800mm cannons would be a good start and along the same lines to the rest.

such as the medium catagory minmatar 452mm autos 5.62 compared to the gallentes heavy neutron thats 5.25 fire rate

that 452mm could be changed to 8 seconds and still be effective

how can b there a wrong race, dumby???
change that to "the op race"
yes indeed matar needs a nerf, maybe cut back projectiles close range ammos dmg could be a good one :P

* There needs to be a shield HP implant set as a counterbalance to the Slave set.