EVE General Discussion

Blasters need a damage boost. Also check the hybrid ammo: currently is not worth it to use anything than AM and long range T2. Blaster ships could receive a MWD speed bonus too.

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Another way for CCP to change Gallente would be to made "hull tanking" a viable option for more variation. Rather than having a speed penalty (armor), the ships would have an agility penalty (hull). Slap some resistance bonus on the hulls of gallente ships, mess a little bit with all the hull related modules and you have something different. It would mess with the fleet combat, but as it seems right now, hybrid ships are not good for that anyway.
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Here's to hoping

Inability to argue without turning nasty is a sign of your own ineptitude at debate.

Of course fleets are rarely make of a single ship type. And your point is? The Tornado and Talos have both the same roles, are both of the same classes, and will have almost equal building costs. So of course you should compare them. Refusing to do so on the grounds that other ships in the gang can interfere is like claiming that Dramiels weren't better than Comets because Rapiers exist.

You speak of writing off the Talos web bonus and speaking only about dps, yet you conveniently ignore things like range, EHP and speed (and a gallente BC with a 1600 plate isn't likely to go anywhere close to an unplated minmatar BC, if the minnie pilot isn't an idiot).

It come down to this: Can you even give a reason to choose a Talos over a Tornado for a fleet fight? There is none, for the same reason that current BC fleets are heavy on hurricanes and rarely contain a signifiant amount of harbingers.

Looks good, T2 ganglinks look nice, will this coincide with a need for ganglinks to be on grid?

Either loki alts just got awesome or its time to unsub them

Princess Alia,

I confined the comparison to a 1v1 because in gang environments, the far superior damage projection abilities of fall-off bonused ACs make the Tornado a superior choice. I know full well that there's more to PVP than 1v1, but I didn't see it necessary to compare the Talos and Tornado there, as it's so obvious that the Tornado is better. I didn't think that this needed spelling out.

Damage types. In the very small scale combat where the blaster Talos will be most useful, you almost always have sufficient warning to be able to reload. I've spent quite long enough pissing about in AML Caracals and Drakes to know the importance of picking the right ammo for the job. Even if you have no warning (e.g. jump-in via a gate), then the Tornado has the mobility to buy the required ten seconds to load Hail, then turn and let yourself get webbed. If you choose to do so, of course, you could just choose to kite the Talos outside web range, minimising tracking problems as it lumbers after you.

The rest of your posts appear to be unresearched, content-free waffle. Now, perhaps you could explain to me why you think that the AC-Tornado should be broadly on-par with the Talos in the Talos's niche?

The far superior mobility and damage projection abilities make choosing the AC-Tornado over the blaster-Talos in fleet a no-brainer. But since we shouldn't really expect blasters to be effective in fleet, given their short range, it's not really the right question. What we're looking for is reasons to fly the blaster-Talos over the AC-Tornado solo or in duo/trio.

The problem here is that obvious choice is still the Tornado, despite the superior EFT damage and even the 90% web. In these very small environments, mobility and damage projection is king - the ability to get tackle and to avoid tackle, the ability to apply DPS outside web range. The Tornado has these abilities; the Talos does not. Sure, the good paper DPS and 90% web look good in EFT, but a suitable comparison is one of Serpentis and Angel ships - which are more popular in space?

Hello CCP.
After incarna crap i did quit eve you to show ccp menagment waht i think off your work in last year.
But than few days ago i got invitation from CCP to resub for 5 euros one moonth and there was talking abouth ship spining coming back,so im back.

Awsom job,seems you did finaly wake up and listen to wha we(players) want to be fixied in this game.
Congrats.

Was abouth time to change stuff and im suporting you recent efforts,but still there is one thing it shoud be fixed.
When one starts to play eve he find out that anything you want to do in eve is time consuming and in the begining it is fine but whith time the nead of fast content is coming stronger as not everyone wants to playe 5 hours minimum.
There shoud be more agile gameplaye so ppl that have 2 hours time shoud have content to playe in that time period.
Thx.

keep on whith good work and server numbers wi go up again.

PRAZ

Rail damage boost looks good, need tot est it though before you can see if the level is set right for balance. Blaster tracking boost is 20% - not sure that's enough tbh given they get used at 1km or so, regardless of size. Might be a case of having larger tracking bonus for bigger blasters with smalls being set at that 20% point.

But I live in hope having seen the scope of changes being considered.

Excellent.
All is falling into place.

"Large Shield Transporter II - 5 players" sounds interesting I think. I wonder what it's supposed to do... Somehow raise the maximum shield of up to 5 ships in the fleet? Will it repair up to 5 ships at the same time?