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ok, CCP, you still have not fixed the fact that all the ships with armor tanking bonuces cannot usethe bonus you gave them, because they cannot fit a full rack of guns, reppers, MWD, and boosters, unless you are fitting electron blaster on them (which is pathertic).
So atm hyperion and britux cannot be fitted with 2 reps and 2 boosters even with maximum fitting skills, meaning they cannot possibly under any circumstance utilize their bonuces. It just is impossible. Thus the ship is useless. That is wihtout even begining to look into effectiveness of their fitting or active vs buffer tank or getting in range or anything like that . THey simply cannot be fit. That is stupid. CHange their bonuces, or change their fitting.

Secondly, remove speed penalty from active armor tank rigs. I liked flying active armour ships, but atm it is just silly. Leave penalty on trimarks, so buffertanks and amarr stay slow.

Thirdly pelase consider giving some gal ships a shield-tank. I seriously think it would massively improve the situation. Minmatar use two tanks, so can we.

dont care how good you make the guns tracking if the target ship get close to a gall ship there going to get webed down, so the tracking is not so much the problem, its the range and falloff, witch is ok as well as i like being up in peoples faces, more damage would be nice or more speed to the ships as armor tank is slow , and our bass speed is to slow , like min ships have the highest and they can orbit out of webs and scrams and our falloff, we may as well fit mining lazzors to our ships and get some ore as we are getting killed. let the flaming begin.

You will get no flaming from me that more or less covers most blaster ships ranging from battle ships to cruisers. Med and Large hybirds suck. Small and Capital are fine.

Ferox:

As the Ferox is a supportship mostly I fit it up for a roaming BC fleet. The Ferox is great because you rarely get primaried first due to the relative strong tank, mediocre speed and low damage.
These numbers are using 3 damage mods even if I would normally fit a few TEs. I am also comparing with the shortest range T1 ammunition and have no drones on the ship. EHP is measured undocked and with overheated inv. fields.

425mm Autocannons : 67,6k EHP, 316,2 DPS (1,5km+12km) Tracking 0,132
Heavy Neutron Blasters : 69,7k EHP, 452,7 DPS (3,4km+6,3km) Tracking 0,15
250mm Railguns (Need 1 ACR rig) : 62,9k EHP, 306,9 DPS (27km+15km) Tracking 0,03

The AC Ferox has an obvious advantage in using no cap and being able to select its damage type. The fitting is also much easier and you should be able to fiddle a medium neutralizer in with a few tweaks. Also the fall-off suits the Ferox fine as it isn't very agile and this allows it to hit targets while travelling towards them. This setup will also benefit most from fleet bonus and implants because it has powergrid to fit 2 extenders and 1 inv. field.

The Blaster Ferox needs to get closer before being able to hit the targets well, but the tracking is a little better and and the damage will punish anyone getting caught. I personally consider 400 dps with a cruiser/battlecruiser very sufficient with a good buffer/tank.

Rail Ferox
Now fitting into the support role I attempted to fit 250mm railguns. I'm sure 200mm will do fine as well but I might as well go all-out hehe. I did need a ACR rig compromising the tank a little but as you see not much.
Tracking will always be a huge thing for railguns, but as a supportship I wouldn't mind. It still hits cruisers+ fine as long they don't get too close. As you can see it does nearly the same max dps as autcannons but it does 100% damage all the way upto 27km and switching to long range ammo it is capable of hitting recons very easily.

This ship won't knock the socks off hurricanes and a Brutix likely does twice the damage. But for a cheap tier 1 battlecruiser I really like these stats. In fleets likely being ignored able to sneak up on targets with blasters or sit at range with rails easily hitting any targets called by the FC dealing a solid amount of dps.

Don't forget you can add 100 DPS from drones...

Why this offense?
Is everybody a whiner who wants to improve gameplay and balancing?
Is everybody a whiner who asks why a AC has so many advantages over other weapon systems?
Is everybody a whiner who doesn't share your opinion?
Is everybody a whiner who asks why a die-most or bruttix are useless hybrid plattforms?

Please bring something constructive and stop offending other people.

Maelstrom has the most powerful tank of all t1 subcaps. Of all races.

I lol'ed at this part. Yeah they have nothing else besides their awesome weapons, besides the best speed, best slot layout, tons of extra fitting space to fit everything they want and tons of utility slots. Go troll somewhere else you easy moder. Fact is I use almost nothing but blaster ships to get my kills, and guess what, just because someone can get kills relying on the rest of their gang, doesn't mean the ships aren't **** and need redoing. The whole pvp balance in eve is messed up because of minmatar ships, all the other races have some way of dealing with it but not Gallente ships. So we're asking for these frankly reasonable changes because we know that this will not make Gall ships more desirable and only slightly more effective.

if you arent a ultra bad and fly in a group with logistics then it does in fact work.

solo in eve has its place but ffs every ship and race should not be able to do it well.

I agree with "every ship" since there are ships designed for fleets, for solo and some even for... ... mining!
I disagree with race since there is no reason why one race should be the fleet race, the other the solo race and the third race the gate camping race.
I say yes to different strategies and approaches, to a different "balance point" every race has, but every race must have something competitive to get the basic jobs done.
Otherwise Gamemasters should tell beginners to choose Amarr if they want to fight in fleets, Minmatar if they want to own everything in canes, Caldari if they want to run missions and Gallente if they want to haul stuff in a Iteron 5 :P

like all ways the other races call it crying, explain how to get a kill here, you are in a brutex , a cane is at 18km, how you going to win this smart guy let alone put damage on him. ?