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I have a crazy idea...

...Maybe Hybrid platforms could do with a 5 to 25% (role bonus, per level of cruiser required) reduction to fitting requirements to the weapons they are supposed to use, like caldari get that bonus applied only to railguns, whiel gallente get that bonus applied only to blasters? :)

They lowered all hybrid weapon's requirements yes. But I'm not talking that, but rather, about giving Gallente a Blaster-specific bonus that also works as a railgun-specific penalty (or lack of bonus) while giving caldari a railgun-specific bonus that doest' apply to blasters. In orde to further breach the gap and reward people who want to fy Blasters/Railguns.

But its just an idea. ;)

Agreed. Admittedly I never thought of this, but I don't see why not. At least it goes some way in "sharing" the current Winmatar crown.

This sums it all up quite nicely. I'd like to make a small addition in suggesting, possibly, hybrid ships getting that missing "unique desirable feature." Either way, there is fresh evidence showing an utter lack of appeal for hybrids, despite Crucible buffs.. "Appeal" needs to be added to hybrids more than anything. I hope you're reading this one, CCP.

I like this idea, while I like the concept of Sentries they are so much micro management becouse you always have to stay in range, pack them, unpack again and so on. If they just could fly 50 m/s and would follow the drone boat it would really help and they still would be a difference to combat drones becouse you could not send them to a target.

About the Ammo changes: Wouldn't it be easier to change the range on the weapon instead of changing e.g. Null in general, then realize that Medium and Large need different changes, do this changes, then realize that T2 is okay but T1 and faction suck, then change T1 Ammo, after that you realize that balance between tier 1 and 2 and 3 are not okay and finally end up with changing the weapon. So why not leave Ammo as it is and change the weapons directly? The Ammo should only give the extra juice but not the general balance becouse the dependencies and combinations are hard to predict.

So lets better think about what a T1 Med Blaster should be able to do and what the T2 should do better and then just change the Weapons accordingly, makes sense?

Hey this was a nice german joke.
I can not understand how you could misunderstand it! :)

The joke was that it will take 5 years with half baked changes and then overnight a Dev decides to finally fix Blasters. In my scenario he gives them a sort of special Hybrid X-Ray 2000 (produced by Binford who has recently started to support Gallente) that shots like a corona without the need to lock a target so you can melt the electronic of every enemy ship on the GRID. To balance it he decides to reduce the Signature Strengh with 5% (or maybe 7.5%, he is not sure and doesn't want to make dramatic changes) so you will lock a bit slower if you decide to do something other to your target instead of just melt it :)
After the first 50000 Minmatar winers they will propably also reduce Gallente agility slightly while Minmatar Pilots complaining that this will not change anything. In the meantime Amarr just decides to use Hybrids on a Abandon and Caldari scraps all missle boats and hopes that X-Ray 2000 will be introduced to Railguns in the next sommer update :P

Sidenote: The Caldari could also use Blasters on their Hybrid plattforms but they decided that they are too proud to use Gallente crap! Unfortunately Minmatar doesn't find any X-Ray 2000 on their scrap yard so they decide to salvage the old Caldari missles boats and combine them with Projektiles, maybe this could help vs X-Ray 2000? We will find out soon, approx 2019!

Sentry drone ships received a Master Almost-Ninja Buff in Crucible. It's called the Reconnect to lost drone -key shortcut.

I've had great success with abandon/reconnects, it allows new kind of tactics, mixing sentry and conventional drones.

Imaginative more you must be if succeed you want, mhrmrm, young Jedi

Another week or so gone, new figures;

1 Maelstrom 57868
2 Drake 42169
3 Hurricane 34209
4 Tengu 25683
5 Abaddon 23004
6 Tornado 14330
7 Tempest 11939
8 Scimitar 10217
9 Sabre 8760
10 Armageddon 7463
11 Zealot 6618
12 Huginn 6565
13 Cynabal 6272
14 Manticore 6188
15 Scorpion 6167
16 Hound 6041
17 Rapier 5998
18 Vagabond 5694
19 Nyx 5659
20 Oracle 5401


1 Heavy Missile Launcher II 23039
2 1400mm Howitzer Artillery II 15437
3 425mm AutoCannon II 11905
4 Mega Pulse Laser II 9333
5 200mm AutoCannon II 6178
6 220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II 5194
7 150mm Light AutoCannon II 5142
8 125mm Gatling AutoCannon II 4900
9 720mm Howitzer Artillery II 4604
10 800mm Repeating Artillery II 4417
11 Heavy Pulse Laser II 3508
12 1400mm Gallium Cannon 3371
13 'Arbalest' Siege Missile Launcher 3283
14 1400mm Prototype Siege Cannon 3101
15 425mm Railgun II 1866
16 Light Neutron Blaster II 1799
17 Citadel Torpedo Launcher I 1653
18 Ion Siege Blaster Cannon I 1563
19 Neutron Blaster Cannon II 1552
20 Mega Modulated Pulse Energy Beam I 1527

No hybrid using ships, 5.9% of weapons are hybrids. Still dreadful.

oh boy oh boy fleet maelstrom banned the abbadon

dark days indeed
i wonder how big is the persentage now of projectile/minmatar ships in use comared to all 3 races together :D