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Caldari ship single damage bonus
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Ella Narina
Income Savings Plan
#1 - 2012-02-17 00:52:50 UTC
I would like to play in caldari ships, but they have been hampered by only having one bonus damage type.
I am talking about the Nighthawk command ship.
I feel I am not getting my money’s worth if I choose this ship. All other races ships have weapon wide bonus damage, and Nighthawk only has the one type.
With so many other restrictions place on my race’s ships, (caldari ship are made slow), this is starting to seem quite imbalanced.
I am finding it harder to justify paying for two accounts.
I have an Amarr and a Caldari. Both have been handicapped by limiting damages, when I created the accounts I wasn’t aware of the long term impact, as there was so much learn. I am spending more time cross training. I need some resolution on this, as I grow tired of not having any advantages given on my racial ships.
My reward for trying to fly a good ship, and Caldari, is a very expensive clone. And no fun command ships to fly.
One damage bonus… on a quarter of a billion isk ship (just in the nighthawk example) … just not right.

I was told to post this here, the GMs don't want to hear about it but it's still important.
mxzf
Shovel Bros
#2 - 2012-02-17 00:59:07 UTC
Two things:
First off, you can fly any ship with any char, you don't have to have other accounts for each race.

Second, the NH can fire any damage type. It does more damage with Kin missiles, but it can do any damage. Other races can't. It is quite balanced as-is.

Also, this has been mentioned before, prepare to be flamed for not bothering to search first. And furthermore, it's really not important (and I kinda resent the GM brushing you off for us to deal with, lol).
Hans Momaki
State War Academy
Caldari State
#3 - 2012-02-17 01:00:04 UTC  |  Edited by: Hans Momaki
As a caldari pilot, I feel with you.

Drake/Tengu/Basi and ECM ships are good ships, but once the drake is nerfed...

Anyway, crosstrain or use your Amarr pilot, they actually have advantages for their drawbacks.

Oh, and I lol'ed after reading this one...

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Second, the NH can fire any damage type. It does more damage with Kin missiles, but it can do any damage. Other races can't. It is quite balanced as-is.


Hello, I am the winmatar!
I'm having selectable dmg types with a marginal loss, greater speed, the ability to apply my damage against fast targets, instant hitting weapons which can't be dodged by warping off and I have a smaller sigradius too. But that's all balanced cause u have ECM and the versatile beast called tenguuhuuhu!
Misanthra
Alternative Enterprises
#4 - 2012-02-17 01:20:30 UTC
the 1 damage type is not that bad. Using non-kinetics on the other races still puts out some decent damage imo. Or for some non kinetic rats the kinetic bonus pushes out some heat still all the same.

Want more dps for non-kinetics, damage implant. I like and run the 5% myself on one char for pve.

Against some enemies the damage is still very decent. And in terms of bottom like accounting, you if motivated to run the spreadsheets will find while you may use a few more missiles, its still cheaper than using kinetics. markets charge more for fotm. Your scourges will be more as they for many are the only ammo they use, so ammo sellers know you will cough up a few extra isk. Many times I have gotten havoc furies for way less to make for lower costs running angel missions. Same with thermal for mercs.

HAte yout choice....fly winmatar. YOu can run the shield tankers till armour is up to snuff. And then you get ammo splits. EMP is not all emp. Fusion is not all explosive.
Myrnin
S'Taurus Associates
#5 - 2012-03-04 16:06:43 UTC
She did search for single damage bonus. I asked her.
She has crosstrained for Min, Gall also.
I like the idea of using an implant for a bonus to any heavy missile though.
As far as KIN being used most often, if back to being the only damage bouns for many caldari ships.
We regret having been directed to post in this forum as well, but they said the dev read this and make recomendations based on things posted here.
yeah when donkeys fly huh?
thanks for the feed back though.
Emperor Salazar
Remote Soviet Industries
Insidious Empire
#6 - 2012-03-04 18:09:58 UTC
Hans Momaki wrote:
but once the drake is nerfed...


the proposed "nerf" is actually a buff durp durp
Simi Kusoni
HelloKittyFanclub
#7 - 2012-03-04 20:45:01 UTC
Ella Narina wrote:
I would like to play in caldari ships, but they have been hampered by only having one bonus damage type.
I am talking about the Nighthawk command ship.
I feel I am not getting my money’s worth if I choose this ship. All other races ships have weapon wide bonus damage, and Nighthawk only has the one type.
With so many other restrictions place on my race’s ships, (caldari ship are made slow), this is starting to seem quite imbalanced.
I am finding it harder to justify paying for two accounts.
I have an Amarr and a Caldari. Both have been handicapped by limiting damages, when I created the accounts I wasn’t aware of the long term impact, as there was so much learn. I am spending more time cross training. I need some resolution on this, as I grow tired of not having any advantages given on my racial ships.
My reward for trying to fly a good ship, and Caldari, is a very expensive clone. And no fun command ships to fly.
One damage bonus… on a quarter of a billion isk ship (just in the nighthawk example) … just not right.

I was told to post this here, the GMs don't want to hear about it but it's still important.

Night hawk is an awesome ship :/ Learn to kite people and stop worrying about what damage type you're dealing, in most fights the difference between using therm/kin/explosive is going to save you about 10-15 seconds on a kill at most. And if you're that close to going down yourself, especially in a nighthawk, then you did something horribly wrong.

Also, you have an Amarr and a Caldari toon, and you can't find any advantages to your racial ships? That's 50% of the ships in the game you've decided aren't worth flying? Seriously?

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