EVE General Discussion

I think Gallente not even being in the top 50 killers lists that CCP keeps putting together should be a pretty definitive metric if you ask me. Rebalances that completely fail to address what exactly was wrong won't bring them up to par.

also, lol @ the thought of ANY medium rail on (much less at the top of) ANY top killers list. Seriously, that's hilarious right there.

Works fine for me.

Dear devs, can you make rigs not stacking penalized against modules?

Every module is stacking penalized. But rigs are modifications to ship's hulls itself, this is why they should not be affected by modules. It will make every other rig more useful than plain armor rigs.

Because armor rigs don't have serious drawbacks and give maximum result with less penalty, because they affect one of four resists, modules plug half of it and rigs cover holes.

Possibly resist rigs should give rainbow protection in smaller amounts. Max hit points rigs are too good. Active tanking rigs are not too popular.

85% of the rigs have no use, time to change bonuses and redesign the concept once again

Drones are kinda cool

im al for modifing scorch, it IS a little ridiculous in some cases, so long as pulses themselves ent changed, just the T2 ammos (I REALLY dont wanna have to rethink my hrribly precariously cpu/pg balanced fits)

Well the fact you put a close range gun in with long range guns should tell you pulse is pretty broken. 

I suggested that DPS rigs not be stacking penalized a week or so ago and got flamed to hell for it lol. Personally, I think it's a great idea to make the DPS rigs unique in that manner.

rate of fire is actually an interesting way to justify bringing ranges back into line.

I'd propose that much of what ought to happen for balance is to consider ewar (inspired by your sig radius idea)...

Firstly, ECM needs to be changed to be a 100% effective -1 target slot instead of chance based -all target slots. Gallente ships should have a base -1 target slot compared to other races, but fast locking speed/range to make up for it (ECCM would be +1 target slot making it always useful), as that would be a reasonable explanation as to why caldari would use an ewar that's more effective versus gallente.

Caldari should have slower locking speeds and lower base targeting range, making damps most effective versus caldari

Amarr should have a more moderate sig radius and minmatar guns a bigger sig resolution (maybe as well as a slight increase in DPS to make up for it), so paints become more of a necessity against Amarr.

Minmatar guns, while high in DPS should also have low tracking and more moderate range, making tracking disruptors a vital tool to shut them down.

Those balances are probably flawed in general, but it seems that rock/paper/scissors through ewar might be the way to balance out the races. This doesn't go into secondary ewar, which should probably be adjusted a bit to make it more effective versus secondary opponents... give caldari the web bonus to counter minmatar, give minmatar a remote ECCM bonus (or maybe a brand new type altogether) to counter caldari, give gallente the neut/vamp bonus to counter the cap hungry amarr, give amarr the scram bonus to counter MWD heavy gallente... secondary bonuses are so freakin' broken right now. :( Fixing secondary ewar would have a lot more fallout, but face it... the current setup does not make any sense at all regarding balance.

Balanced ewar would make weapons a secondary consideration, which imo, is how it should be.

The race that specializes in rails and missiles, I.E. the longest range weapons in the game... should have the shortest targeting range?

I like a lot of the theory behind mkints proposal, justification should be somewhat apparent as to why a races EW capabilities have specialized the way they have. To attain that might require some reshuffling, or perhaps reworking the underlying mechanics of how the EW works specifically.

If Caldari (for example) could retain their longer lock range, but be more vulnerable to the range decreasing effect of Sensor Damps than other races due to how they worked....

I would require a great deal of thought, but it is a worthy goal. It would be nice to look at a races strengths and see a logical cause/effect relationship as to why it developed that way based on who their enemies are.

Edit: Another reason to consider digging this deep into the mechanics of things would be that weapon balance and EW balance between the various races have always had fundamental issues. It might be wise to bite the bullet and devote most of an expansion into reworking both systems to work hand in glove in a logical fashion.