EVE New Citizens Q&A

Lol. I have never seen a person's ship pop with standard ammo. With all the balance passes to lasers (which imo were wrong ways to do it), they've become less and less cap hungry and aren't very damaging either. They NEED MF, they don't just use it as a handy alternative. It's a very clear need.

For instance, to make standard crystals viable, the cap drain of lasers would have to be double what they are now, but the damage would also have to go up so that when you're using standard it will have barely enough DPS to get through a tank, which would in turn affect all the other crystals. The ideal scenario would probably be to bump damage up on crystals by 1 or 2 points across the smalls, and make lasers cap hungry.

Believe me when I say I've tried it all, and ironically, while you lose DPS at full angular velocity if both ships are moving opposite to each other with multifreq, you still do more damage overall when you win the lottery because you change direction or they do and your guns happen to fire right then. Lasers have poor tracking, but target painters or flying manually greatly improve MF damage. No amount of good flying greatly improves standard crystal damage.

The negatives of short range ammo are outweighed so much by the benefits, especially coupled with the very static engagement ranges that are designated through the prop disruption mods, (WD, SW, WCS).

Yellow laser doesn't give you any more utility. Cap use is light enough on lasers that any mod you might need to use isn't going to drain you before you or the other person goes pop.

Trying to swap ammo to stay relevant is a losing proposition to me because you're talking multiple tick delays, which isn't as instantaneous and people laud. DPS is too high to wait around like that, especially in amarr ships which can't control range that well, being slower and having inferior slot layouts.




Haven't you just redescribed exactly what I said in your own words? if you're using it, you're catching people who are alone because its sure as hell not being used on any ship that's fighting in equal combat, and you're using it to hold some individual down for a fleet to gank. It literally has only that one use.

Since it's not allowed to actually link them, pretend I just put a Suitonia lossmail with IN standard loaded right about here.

But that guy is regarded as pretty terrible, so he was probably doing it wrong.

Standard is quite good in beams, especially on Confessors. One might even say it is...standard.

They're a known issue.

Exactly how to fix them, that's not so easy. There have been discussions about them in most of my CSM terms.

You should have underlined the second half. "The devs will fix it." Eventually. They've already fixed so many things that were useless previously, that I'm confident that they will come up with something.

Defender missiles do not work for their intended role. They are still not useless, but one has to bend over backwards so far to create a situation to make them useful that it can lead to hospitalization.

The explained in a fanfest that they check the statistics for everything, and if no one is loading up a given module and using it, then they mark that module for some kind of upgrade. If a module become seen a so essential that everyone fits that module then that module will be marked for a downgrade.

It sounds to me like you are speaking strictly of PvP encounters and even at that probably only specific types of PvP encounters like maybe smaller groups.

Standard ammo gets used a lot. If it didn't then I would be missing several Billion isk as I've sold lots of standard ammo.

As far as Multi Frequency goes I use other crystals on my lazer boats often and T1 versions of it as well. I think the one that I use the most is probably Ultraviolet but that is just because of the range at which I engage due to Sentry range and tank situations it works out best. One of the benefits of lazers is that you can change with no reload time so you can switch up ammo as the NPCs get closer. So I keep a wide variety in my cargohold.

Of course everything that I just described is in PvE situations but I just don't see how you could call something useless just because you don't use it. I mean I am sure you don't see cargo expanders on a lot of PvP ships but they are far from a useless mod.

Back to my previous point which was pretty much every module and ship has it's use. You may never find a use for it since playstyles are so varied but that does not mean that other people don't have fits that need that mod or work best with that mod. I just think that it's better for the OP to focus on what works best for him rather than what does not work well for everyone else.

As far as your critique of some of the balancing I totally agree with you. It seems to me that they have moved away from trade offs and more towards homogenization. To me it's taken away a lot of the flavor of the different races and to me that is like making everything vanilla ice cream. I mean sure you can choose between French Vanilla and Vanilla Bean and Soft Serve etc.. but it's still all just vanilla ice cream.

Ever tried to fly a Helios across some of EvE's larger solar systems?
If you had you would know how useful these can be.

Everything has a use in EvE, because you do not use it, or cannot understand how it may be useful does not change that.

For all the talk of Hyperspatial rigs, I'm fond of using one or two on my low-volume haulers. Use one of the tanky T1 industrials, fit them up for ~5k m3 cargo, utilize the mids for ample tank, and a mix of align and warp speed rigs to achieve a quicker transit for the low-volume (and low-value) cargo.

Solo maybe. The essence of strategy though is to be there firstest with the mostest. :)

As a solo ship, arriving at a celestial with 6 taranises, then flee to another celestial (it was a new system) and the taranuses beat me there, then warp to another celestial where the taranuses beat me there too.

If you're in a group those that get there first are the ones on the km.