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Are you saying that in a whole year, no carrier was ever shot by anything but drones?

Why are Battleships at the top?

Does that damage count only shooting at ships or shootign structures as well? Because including structure shootignmay be highly misleading.

CCP Quant has a well developed sense of irony?

You might be right.

But are you saying that every ship in the game has dealt damage with fighters? Even including drone assist, that's just as strange. Why would you use, say, deep transports for that?

And stealth bombers doing damage with other systems than missiles? I'm assuming dark gray areas with "0B HP" mean "some damage, even if negligible", as opposed to empty cells which mean 0 damage at all.



Second point still holds. It's not possible to compare weapon systems w/o considering the number of ships that use each system.

Interesting.


You know what? mining barges are much a better example than carriers. Most of the damage received has to be hybrid there. I'm convinced now that the graph it's damage dealt, no received, for sure.

What puzzles me is that cells like mining barge / lasers are empty as expected, but bombers / lasers aren't.

Edited:

I see, so it is possible that someone shot lasers in a stealth bomber (even if I have no idea why someone would do so).

Our experience in faction warfare combat may shed light on the reason drones are the most effective and preferred weapons system.

The primary reason, we believe, is that drones allow a pilot to concentrate their attention on defensive flying, whereas gun turrets require the pilot to fly offensively.

Put another way, in order to apply effective DPS from gun turrets, you need to position yourself so that you are in effective gun turret range from your enemy. It is the nature of gun fights. If you have a clear shot on your enemy, all guns being equal he has a clear shot on you.

So gun turret platforms are going to need tank, to stay in the fight long enough to prevail. Sadly, they also need to be nimble, and they don't have a lot of powergrid left after fitting gun turrets that provide a wide DPS application envelope (big ones).

The drone pilot can concentrate on speed and range dictation, and can apply damage from 50km with no special skills. Even better, drones require no powergrid, CPU or ammo, so the happy drone pilot can spend all that on tanking. Passive tanking, active tanking, EWAR, cap war, you name it, the drone pilot can have it.

The drone pilot also has the capacity to change damage type, and to carry all three weapon sizes at once. The humble vexor can fit small, medium and large calibre weapons, all at once.

Good luck fitting the full compliment of light, medium and heavy gun turrets on any boat. You would need 18 high slots and 5 times the powergrid, and even then you'd have enough hold space for about 20 rounds from the heavy guns.

Lastly, applied DPS is largely a function of effective tackle. Two webs and a pointer and most ships begin to suffer very badly. In order to take advantage of heavily tackled targets, gun boats need to put themselves in the firing line. The drone boat can apply huge damage from 50kms, allowing them to stand off in safety.

This is not to say that guns are "bad". Rather, you have to be a pretty handy pilot to make guns work. Even then, a pretty handy pilot in a drone boat will smoke a handy pilot in a gun boat in most fights of equal classes.

This post is not meant to be a criticism, it is just our opinion of how things are in the game.

Gallente drone pilots are elite.

You'd have to buff both range and weapon damage of the ships that loss the drones.

Yea Amarr ships are in a real bad spot these days, espacially for solo.

If you go buffer, you get into PG problems as armor buffer and energy weapons eat a lot of PG. Even passive tanked laser boats cap run out of cap and are vulnurable for neuts. Adding a NOS eats even more PG.

If you go active tank you get into heavy cap problems as active armor tank and energy weapons eat your cap like crazy and you usually do not have the midslots available for a cap booster.

And then you look at the vexor or a dual/tripple tanked mymidon and just dont know what to say.

RIP Assault ships and Interceptors. All hail their complete and utter replacement, the T3D!