Warfare & Tactics

To be fair, nothing projects damage like Scorch, or does damage at point blank like blasters. If anything, Minmatar ships should be less able to select damage types. Caldari are typically bonused just for kinetic, perhaps projectiles should be more tied to explosive? They seem the odd one out, granted their ACs are almost always in falloff, but they can still focus on e.g. an EM resist hole far too easily and often have huge effective range bonuses even before factoring in TEs, so they can more than make up for switch from Barrage.
Don't forget they're also capless too, hybrids aren't anywhere close to being so.
Hybrid ammo is rather terrible though, being as they're the active-tanking race, cargo is at a premium and AM + T2 ammo is the most you'll ever see on a blaster boat, and perhaps only 1 other type more on rails.
Then again, rails are a whole heap of fail on their own, especially mediums.

While they're at it, maybe they can make the Amarrian Drones themselves suck less.

^ This ^

If it were such a big deal, people wouldn't use Amarr ships for PvP. Nor would people use Hyperions as blaster boats. I can't think of hardly any cases where you wouldn't omni-tank, except if you KNOW for SURE that X fleet will only be carrying X ammo type and NOTHING else with 0% chance of them changing or using drones.

Muad, I swear I know you from somewhere, but I can't figure out where....

Threads like this worry me a little bit.

If we remove all the different advantages and disadvantages that each race has.......well we might as well just have one race.

That would become very boring very quickly.

been done to death.
each race's ammo has different benefits.
damage selection is fine.

Well said.

I would definitely like explo/kin lasers, thanks.

1. 'Instant' isn't fast enough. You must right-click the group, stop firing, select the new crystal in the right-click menu (which won't appear while the gun is finishing a cycle, so I hope you pre-right-clicked as instructed), and then begin firing again. So it's a 3sec+why-won't-this-module-end-its-cycle-already-lag reload. Much longer if you've more than one group, as you can't pre-right-click all of them.

2. Ammo-switching only lets you A) continue to do damage as they move away from you, or B) do more damage as they move towards you. That's it, that and possibly switching out from tracking-nerfed ammo, or to less cap-sucking ammo. Do you know what autocannon users have to do in order to A) continue to do damage as range increases, and B) do greater damage as range decreases? That's right -- ******* nothing. Lasers' 3sec 'instant' ammo switching is just a low-resolution simulation of autocannons' actually instantaneous adaptation to range in falloff.

Actual laser advantages include: 1. never losing DPS due to reloading, 2. the damage reduction in 'simulated falloff' is less punishing than actual falloff.

T2 and T3 ships do have the more pronounced resist profile, true. So there can be situations where you, in Amarr or Gallente ship, face a ship that has high natural resist against your only damage type(s), but that can switch ammo to make more applied damage against your weakest resist.

But against T1 ships, shield or armor if the resist hole is filled like it should, hybrid ammo has always the best or second best damage type to shoot. Lasers don't have it as good, but ~Scorch~ so it doesn't really matter anyway.