EVE General Discussion

If I want to use the Hecate, I am forced to use MWD or else I won't be taking advantage of the propulsion mode? MWD speed and cap usage only effects MWD's, not afterburners.

But you at least get 66% inertia boost from propulsion mode still, you might say? If you look at the inertia of the Hecate you will see that it is twice as high as Svipul and more than twice as high as Confessor; this makes the bonus worthless in comparison.

I realise that the purely MWD bonus is probably there to stop people using 10mn afterburner set ups but what about those of us who want to use 1mn afterburners or gisti 1mn afterburners? There's no simply no option for it, because propulsion mode is next to worthless to use with afterburners in a Hecate; you're better to forgo gallente and use a better designed tactical destroyer which doesn't reward only MWD usage.

For that reason if I want to play with 1mn afterburners I am forced to use an entirely different ship that can take advantage of the bonus, the svipul for instance. Which means I don't get to play my favorite race's tactical destroyer, all because of badly designed bonuses, which are only designed that way to prevent oversized afterburner play, while also ruining normal sized 1mn afterburner play at the same time.

I realise it's probably too late to change this now, but couldn't you have found a better way to do propulsion mode for the Hecate so at least 1mn afterburners are viable and not just MWD's for the sake of penalising the oversized afterburner style.

That's the point, there isn't balance. Hecate is only given the option of MWD, or a gimped afterburner. The bonus should also apply to 1mn afterburners.

He doesn't want the bloom I'm guessing.

How about, even after the fact hybrid weapons pack a stronger punch than projectiles, Hecate is still given the dps of 10 turrets, while Svipul gets only a dps of 9.

You can turn this around and ask yourself why not every "Minmatar" pilot or one of the other factions isnt here complaining about "their" tactical destroyer not having a MWD bonus.

Although I see your point (but don't agree with it because AB's are a very different animal in my book), I'd rather see alot more difference between between all the factions. Its all starting to feel a bit bland. Why train Gallente if Caldari has the same options in ships and you already have those skills trained?

But thats a slightly different discussion...

Firstly, the minmatar vessel does have a MWD bonus, to its defense mode. Secondly, it effectively also has an MWD bonus to its propulsion mode because it gets a 66% velocity and 33% inertia bonus; the velocity bonus is applicable if you fit MWD or afterburner. If you still don't understand, the other vessels don't need a MWD bonus because they get a direct speed bonus, which is the same, only it works with any propulsion module. This is what the hecate should have had, or a direct 1mn afterburner/1mn mwd bonus, if they really want to stop oversized afterburners on it.

i hate my phone...

The reasons why you don't like this change are, like you already told, are: You don't like it how it is, because you can't do what you want.

And how is it fair than Svipul doesn't get hull resist bonuses ? I want mine hull tanked, dammit.

WTF. I'm supposed to know that.

So much for my reputation as an elitist [bad word] ....

Good for you little man. Now run along, I think your mother is calling you.