Ships & Modules

Two things:
1. Buff
Its not only the Myrmidon, alot of gallente ships are missing the 1 slot.

2. Redesign
Hulltanking should be more viable, more modules and better ones.

Gallente as a whole really doesn't need a buff.

Maybe some specific gallente ships need some more work. Definitely not the whole race.

The active armor tank bonuses need to go,
There are multiple ships with the slot layout to go either way (shield or armor), and I think that should be encouraged.

The active rep bonuses are just crap IMO. I'd rather have the Amarr/Caldari resist bonuses.

Basically at lvl 5 you have 33% more buffer and 33% more effective reps from local and incoming reps with the resist bonus

With the armor rep bonus, you have no more buffer, and only 37.5% more effective reps for local reps only.
FAIL

At least the Phobos uses a resist bonus instead of a rep bonus.
I'd prefer the bonus to be something that doesn't bias toward armor or shield (something like a bonus to increase applied DPS, ie more gank instead of tank), but if it must be a tanking bonus, make it a resist and not rep bonus.


Other ships:
The Myrm should get a bandwidth of 100. Without bonuses guns, and the same drone DPS, its just a tankier version of the Vexor, with a little more flexibility due to a larger drone bay.
Compare that to the step up in DPS you get from other BCs, (while also improving tank), and its just substandard for a tier 2 ship.

Thorax/Diemost:
The MWD bonus isn't all that great, more cap... ok. I'd propose making it a compound bonus (much like the drone damage & HP bonus), ie: -5% to MWD sig radius and cap penalty per level (or just: -5% to MWD penalties per level).
So at lvl 5 when Experimental 10 MN MWD is fitted:
the -19% cap penalty is turned into a 6% cap bonus (ie -19 +25 = 6)
the 500% sig radius penalty is turned into a 325% sig radius penatly (ie .75 * 500).

Now, due to the smaller sig, its going to take less damage when closing the distance using that MWD.
I think it would be a great improvement to what I consider a lackluster bonus.

Where have you been? Gallente has become extremely viable. A boost for the entire race would probably make Gallente ships overpowered. EWAR needs to be tweaked a bit but for the most part Gallente have solid ships for every ship class.

Even before the buff I though they were pretty useful. Sure blasters were disappointing but Myrmidons and Dominix's are probably among the most versatile ships in the game.

no it doesnt...

well gallente ships always had the extra hull.


but I think it was for hedonistic purposes.

That is not entirely true. It can not fit one base but a single Powergrid Rig will allow it to fit one while the larger natural Gal Buffer makes up the EHP loss.

[Thorax, 1600mm Thorax]
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I

Experimental 10MN MicroWarpdrive
J5b Phased Prototype Warp Scrambler I
Stasis Webifier II

Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Electron Blaster II, Caldari Navy Antimatter Charge M

Medium Ancillary Current Router I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I


Hammerhead II x5

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The recent buff allows you to put on Electron II's with a 1600mm Plate so long as you give up a Trimark Armor Pump for an ACR.

Thanks to a higher Base HP it gets 37000 EHP to the Ruptures 40000 HP but the trade off is worth it for the Higher Damage. The Thorax's extra range does not come into play with both setups being brawlers designed to get close and personal being that a Scram / Web Rupture is not built for Kiting like its Shield Counter Part.

The thing is that despite the Rupture fitting 220mm Auto's a Thorax with Electrons using Faction Ammo will out Dmg a Rupture with just Guns whilst having the option to fit Hammers / Valks for more DPS, a mix of Warriors / ECM Drones or even Warriors and a Web Drone gives the Thorax a good Gallante utility to make up for the Small Neuts / Rockets put in the Ruptures spare slots. The loss of an Armor Rig allows it to keep a pretty good pace being only 8m/s slower then the Armor Rupture.

The new Armor Thorax is a massive improvement over the old Armor Setups thanks to the PG Buff but on that note Cruisers themselves are slated to receive more EHP, Speed, Fitting and utility as per the CSM Minutes and recent Dev Posts on the subject. I have a feeling I am going to be flying more Thorax's in my future.

When you say the Duel Neut Ruppy do you mean the 425mm Shield version because the Armor one has to fit smalls. I don't think that could drain out the Thorax Capacitor in time since it is about a 3rd larger.

If in a gang with web tackle you could mitigate that by running a small Capbooster instead with Navy 400mm Charges instead of a Web.

What was my old Sig again... Oh yeah! It was something like this.

I am on a Crusade to fix the Omen.

I can not wait to see what they do with it.

Why would you put a penalty on it at all????

You're making it a useless pennalty anyway. It's like putting a tracking penalty on a industrial ship.

Not that I'm against taking a look at some ships and their usefullness in the game, but it makes no sence, not gamewise and not RP wise.

you're explanations open the way for nano's that don't get a hp penalties. you just remove some electronics you don't need anyway.

Problem of most of the solutions placed on these forums, is that they just put another ship/tactic at the bottum instead of making the ships competitive