EVE General Discussion

Yes because a beam of light needs to do kinetic impact damage

Lasers are super heated (thermal) beams of light (electromagnetic) and therefor do thermal and em

kinetic implies mass - lasers have no real mass to speak of

explosive implies a chemical reaction - again not something lasers do

Amarr get to choose damage types exactly as much as Gallente and Caldari do. All these three races have their turrets locked into two damage types, but have other weaponry that varies damage types. Hybrids are locked into Kin/Therm, but Gallente have drones and Caldari have missiles for choosable damage types.

The Amarr have either one (depending on the ship). The Arbitrator and its T2 variants get very nice drone bonuses (arguably making the Arbitrator sometimes a better drone boat than the Vexor, which is just weird), while some ships like the Malediction, Vengeance, Heretic, Sacrilege, etc focus on short range missiles.

It's really the Minmatar ships that have the freedom to vary damages as they want on the autocannons, but even so it's "impure", usually dealing 3 damage types in weird percentages (and no primarily Kinetic damage type). Minmatar also have limited ability with missiles and drones as well, supporting the whole "flexible" archetype.

Also as was mentioned above me, it makes no sense for lasers to do anything but EM and Thermal. At all.

Edited for clarity

I hate being hit by the suns rays and getting knocked over

This is by design. Damage types were originally racial (with Caldari getting to choose), but CCP backed down a bit with the release of T2 ammo.

I personally think it adds a bit of flavor to the game. I'd hate to see all races use all damage types equally well.

besides the obvious logic of pure holy light of the divine empire doing pesky kinetic damage (TECHNICALLY phtons DO have amss, so a concentrated beam within the visible light spectrum would have a MINISCULE kinetic hit), let me first point out your first flaw:

you suggested that lasers are not already the most divine god-moding weapon in the game, we dont even require ammo, our weapons are powered by the holy energies of our divine wrath. so NO, we do NOT need other damage types, we do just fine smiting our enemies with the purest of damage types.

So… what length reload times and what kind of ammo (and cargo space) consumption would you propose to go with those selectable lasers?

Nah - they shouldn't have selectable damage types, but need a buff in overall damage to compensate for the fact they can't change it.
Doing Kinetic and Exp damage just doesn't make sense for lasers, but they need an overall damage buff in return.

On a side note, projectiles should be restricted to do only Kin/Exp. If there's any turret type that should be able to do all types, it should be missiles and hybrids - missiles use an engine to deliver a warhead, hybrids use a cap-consuming electromagnetic system to do so.

Given that even after the buff, comparable hybrid and projectile ammo take the same volume, whereas projectiles are supposed to carry the propellant whereas hybrid charges don't, projetiles ammo overall dps should be nerfed.

(Now that is all tech-talk roleplay mumbo-jumbo - projectiles just should be nerfed on multiple levels purely for gameplay and balance reasons).

Lasers should do pure EM in fact, any thermal effects are a byproduct of EM radiation impacting matter.



Yes.

No thanks.