Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Drink the Kool-Aid and switch to turrets. The more people that make the switch, the sooner CCP can stop going full-****** on missiles and just get rid of them like I imagine they want to.
I got back into Eve after a 10-month Persian Gulf break and decided to step out of my little Eve-world and the biggest thing I have discovered is that missiles are near-pointless. My cruise missiles are accurate over 200km, which is laughable outside of using a MJD(or similar tactic) for missions. My torps are mediocre as long as I am shooting something size of a station that has zero movement and I don't mind scrapping my tank for TPs and still being outdone by blasters. My Heavies suck so bad that light missiles tend to be a more useful alternative, and my HAMs will probably only see use on a T3 cruiser. My capital options aren't even worth mentioning except as the subject of a very poor joke.
I have the only weapon system in the game that has a flight time, which means that the only time I can outperform a projectile weapon (that somehow manages to lob a projectile at the same speed as a ******* laser *while a missile has a max velocity in a vacuum instead of a max acceleration) is if I am close enough to mitigate the flight time or if I have luxury of having the target completely immobilized.
The well-touted damage selection of missiles seems like a pretty poor trade-off when the standard reaction I have gotten when trying to do anything with other people by using missiles is "Couldn't you bring anything better?"
And now, because CCP seems to have a major disconnect with the players and places more importance on forcing a half-assed change instead of taking the time to do the job right, I feel like I am getting shafted even more. Of course as a missile pilot this seems to pretty damn standard.

What about keeping the current reload time of 40 seconds, but make it so the weapons auto-reload one charge at a time while not firing? (If you reactivate the weapon, it stops reloading).

This would allow skirmishing Caracal/Cerb to fly in, snipe a frig or two, pull range, wait to reload a bit and reengage without the fear of getting caught while reloading and be unable to do anything about it.

No big deal. Some of us decided to go full William Wallace with the Cerberus. Blue, black and Gray Kilt (X-Large Ancillary Shield Booster & DCl) and no underwear (no large shield extender). Just one big Bastard Sword (maximum damage output) and good legs to run on. I mean sure you could get one volleyed by a long bowmen (Tornado) but real men die pant-less.

Also LSE setup is still possible with PG change.

Are you sure you don't want to change your mind and deny me my Tengu that hits frigates for 600 DPS? It's not too late to stop the retardation!

The most amazing thing about these changes is how they are managing to make RLMLs overpowered or useless depending on the situation, with nothing in between. Truly wonderful game design.

I'm thinking more and more that what should happen is that the rapid launchers should go back to the more conventional design, and this theme of high RoF, long reload time should be introduced in a complete new range of launchers (concept name: "salvo launchers"?) covering all missile types from rockets to cruise missiles (maybe even citadels!).

CCP > if it ain't broke, break it

So what this essentially does is buff the RLML Caracal's ability to roflpwn frigates and dessies (because it needed help in that department???) while almost completely eliminating their potential to kill other decently tanked cruisers solo since you'll need to either kite/tank for 40 seconds or warp off to reload in safety (i.e. letting your target go).

CCP Rise
Taking Solo Away

Or, as Rise has pointed out you could always set your launchers into 2 groups and stagger them. This way, because an overall 20% drop in DPS is completely different if you use 2 groups, you'll have the same dps as you do now without the downtime. Also, if your ship blows up he'll sprinkle you with magic pixie dust from his pocket and let you ride on his boyfriend the unicorn all the way to Narnia where he did the math to come up with those figures.

Is all this griping cathartic?