Ships & Modules

Minmatar ships have high power grid because artillery takes high amounts of power grid, and CCP wants to make them able to use both.

Gallente ships have gimped fitting because CCP wants you to use blasters on them, not rails. (If you ask them, rails are for Caldari)

Doesn't make much sense, but that's the way it is.

Was under the impression some Gallente hulls were missing a slot to compensate for larger drone bays and ability to field more drones than their counterparts.

Once you go black, you never go back.

You should have got jungle fever like I did. The Minmatar are clearly descended from Touaeg rebels or maybe Somalian pirates, who are genetically similar to the AK-47. Perhaps even the Congolese, who have bullet-spewing machete-wielding unbalanced combat in their heritage.

Remember kids: happiness is a warm machinegun!

Minmatar should retain the ability to opt between ac and arty, but do so by reducing the requirements of artillery/reducing grid/cpu across the boar such that an ac fit doesn't have all and sundry grid/cpu left to play with. It is one thing to have a relatively generous amount of fitting stats (more t1 ships should be a little more forgiving, imo, they are meant for newbs). It is quite another to have a full t2 fit that goes on with copious amounts of extra grid/cpu left over with AWU not even trained.

Don't change the fittings for the autocannons please, what else am I going to put on my non-damage-bonused Amarr and Caldari gunboats?

While we are at it can CCP reduce the optimal of Lazors, the range of missiles, the damage of blasters as well as making sure no ships can go faster than 2000m/s.

Much closer to balanced at "All V's" yes, but there are ways to maintain that while not allowing minmatar hulls to be absolutely dominant at lower fitting skill levels.

(I like how all of a sudden being able to fully t2 fit with AWU-0 is racial flavor that shouldn't be touched.)

The Cynabal has a fitting grid that's simply ludicrous.

Cynabal Argument and Pretty Graphs That Aren't Mine

First page has a Cynabal vs. Vigilant example. Enjoy.

If it's formidable in its current state and better than a rifter then it surely does not need more cpu/pg and additional slots to prevent it from being overpowered.

On another note....did you bother reading CSM minutes/devblogs ?

They are balancing t1 frigates, cruisers and tier 1 battlecruisers to make them more useful/give them more clearly defined roles.

Addditionally, ACs aren't excesively easy for minnie ships to fit and operate.

ACs are excessively easy to fit and operate on *any* ship. Someone mentioned the Ferox. If I'm looking to fit a Ferox for close-in work, I should be thinking between blasters (which the range bonus makes a bit easier to work with, thus making up for the fact that the thing is about as maneuverable as a rock in a tarpit) and doing something with those 5 launcher hardpoints (thus mitigating the threat of neuts while still hitting decently (HAMs, in theory at least) or maintaining a bit of range (HMLs) or being able to chase off frigates (AMLs)). I should not be strongly considering ACs to get most of the punch I'd get with blasters/HAMs, enough range to not really want HMLs, decent forgiveness vs. frigates, AND cap-less damage.

Leave minnie ships alone (on this, at least), but someone should take a look at the adjustments to ACs and AC-supporting modules over the years as compared to the fitting requirements of ACs... might be worth a tweak.