Ships & Modules

Oh look, still nothing resembling a valid point.

Give t1 bcs 16 small guns.

They did, they are called Tornado and Oracle, and they are going to be quite capable of knocking the t2 BC down a rung.

Can't be arsed to check, but I'm pretty sure that a sensibly-fit Hurricane can be faster and more agile than most T1 cruisers and HACs, let alone recons.

Let's just say that I would prefer the gap between the mobilities and agilities of those HACs and recons and the Hurricane to be larger. As your figures show, the gap between the numbers for the single-nano Hurricane and non-Minmatar cruisers is frequently quite small, while adding another nano or rigs can give the Hurricane ~1550 m/s. But in any case, I'd be happy to nerf the Drake at the same time as the Hurricane.

The HAM Drake is very powerful in its niche, but there's nobody complaining about it because its close-range niche is risky and of limited flexibility, and it's easy to counter.

Stating that HMs are overpowered is an interesting one. At face value it sounds reasonable. But is the Caracal overpowered? Or the Cerberus? Hardly. This suggests that the problem isn't HMs alone, but rather the combination of HMs and Drake, probably related to the ease of fitting MWD, tank and HMLs on the Drake, since a HML Caracal has no room for a LSE without fitting mods. You could add the Tengu here too.

Any balance changes to BCs need to be accompanied by a nerf to their insurance payouts, it's one of the reasons they obsolete T1 cruisers bar the Blackbird.

Did I not just get owned by a cyclone, blue pill and ec-600's in my hurricane

--Excellent point. I don't know why people want to make all ships essentially the same. The tier one boats are meant to be mediocre.
The real problem is the training times for each tier. These render the tier one ships all but useless because for the most part you can get into a tier two ship with another hour or two training.
The Procurer is a classic example. It's poor performance is perfectly in line with the 'bottom end' ship of the class- but a necessary stepping stone for moving to the big leagues of the class. The issue really is the time it takes to go from tier one to tier two makes that 'growing step' completely worthless.
I wouldn't change the ships, I'd change the requirements to fly them. I contend it's not that tier ones are badly designed (well most) that makes certain ships all but useless, they are only useless because in the time it takes to log off, make and eat dinner, maybe rub one out to your choice of midget erotica-- and you can be in a vastly better hull.

Yeah, that means everyone would be stuck, at least for a bit, with a crappy bottom rung ship upon starting a new ship skill. Probably unpopular, but in spirit with the game's intent. I just fear that fiddling with ships will have the net result of making them all the same- just with different window dressing for the graphics. Having them essentially the same, just with different names for their weapons and modules isn't variety- only the illusion of it.

Unless you got it in the morning didn't play EVE that day and slept-in the next morning because then you will be in a Retriever. Or if you happen to have Caldari Cruisers trained to 3 and put Mining Lasers on a Moa. Why a Moa and not an Osprey like you would expect me to say, well the Moa mines more then it. But hey it is almost as good as a Rail Ship and that counts for something, at least in Area's where there are no Belt Rats because then the Moa with it's Tank and 3 Drones have it over a Barrel.

I guess it has some benefit such as being able to Mine more then those tiny Mining Frigates... Oh wait those Mine more as well.

No I am being unfair, with a T2 Strip Miner and T2 Crystal it can in fact extract 2 units of ORE a minute more then a Bantam. Worthy of the name Mining Barge alright.

It is not a necessary step. It is a lemon.

Yeap.