Ships & Modules

First of all, this is not meant as a troll. I'm suggesting these either be buffed to "make sense" or removed from the game to conserve space. This is madness:


---Not Suck---
250mm Railgun I has a damage mod of 3.05 and does 14 kin dmg with antimatter charge M every 6.38s.

Its powergrid consumption is 198MW and it uses 38TF of CPU. It tracks like a dream, too.

--Suck Suck--
Dual 250mm Railgun I has a damage mod of 1.65 and does 28 kin dmg with antimatter charge L every 5.85s.

Its powergrid consumption is 1100MW and it uses 52TF of CPU. It tracks like a blind goat.


So for an increase in ROF of 530 milliseconds we get:

• 902MW empty powergrid
• 14TF empty cpu
• to track much more poorly
• to miss more things
• and do less dps, even after ship skill bonuses because, hey, a goose egg is a goose egg
• with bigger
• more expensive ammo

Yeah, that seems about right.

So I'm levying this legitimate question to CCP: Should these guns be mocked and ridiculed by players as a joke? Should all Dual 250mm class guns be melted down for minerals? Should they be removed from the game in order to add more DB entries for new shiny stuff in future expansions? Or should they be buffed so that they at least pose a reasonable option for fitting?

Your philosophy in the past suggests the latter. I'm looking at you, scrams and neuts.

TL/DR: No, just adding 5 or 10 to everything in the hybrid guns and gallente ship velocity fields is not a good solution to balancing hybrids. Dual 250 mm Railguns are ridiculous and should be substantially buffed or removed to make way for better mods.

^---This made me have to clean off my monitor. Thanks for that, at least!!!

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