Ships & Modules

As the title suggests, this thread is dedicated for you to pay your respects to the now-deceased RLML launchers. Please, everyone take a moment to bow your head in silence.

Never even used them once. Well, not in the last year. Actually scratch that I might have fit some to my rattlesnake once. Whatever.

Rip RLML the pepos princessss xoxoxoxoxoxoxo

RLML is dead, long live RLMLs being used outside of PVE. Four more years for the anti-frig RLML cerb!

Perhaps I'm daft, but has the patch even been out long enough to pronounce them yet?

Doctor: "Hello, ma'am? Your husband was hit in the head when he walked into a glass door. He is unconscious. Its too soon to tell yet, but ..."

Wife: "Unplug him! I'll call the funeral home!"

that's some hard core shite there.

Traded yesterday after patch a RLML caracal for 5 bombers (3 more survived, lucky bastards).
Not sure what's so terrible about rapid lights.

Thank **** for that, rlmls were ridiculously OP.

I don't want to see them totally dissapear though.

Rapid Missile Launcher Issues and Fix

The issues rapid launchers have are
1. They have amazing range, with the ability to do what close range guns and missiles and long range guns and missiles do in one.
2. Rapid launchers take far less CPU and PG than their counterparts, which in turn makes the ships using them have amazing tanks.
3. They are a weapon system designed to work against smaller targets, while they do this; they also work just as well against targets of the same size, and sometimes even larger targets.

How to fix these issues
1. Have rapids use rockets and heavy assault missiles. This would fix the range issue and still give enough range for good PvP. Rapid rocket launchers would be able to hit to 10km to 20km or more depending bonuses, rigs, and missile type. Rapid heavy assault missile launchers would hit 20km to 40km depending on all the same things.
2. Have their CPU and power grip increased slightly, but not as much as HAMs or HMLs, or as much as Torps or Cruise, but closer to their numbers. This would make it so ships using rapid launchers won't be able to fit unreal tanks, but still be able to fit "good" tanks.
3. They would need to have their rate of fire increased anywhere from 2 to 5 seconds to make sure they aren’t so effective against ships of the same size or larger.
4. Ships that use them Cruisers, Battlesruisers, and Battleships would need any bonuses they give to explosion radius or velocity not applied to rapid launchers.
5. Also the T2 missiles for rockets and heavy assault missiles will not make them OP like the T2 missiles did for heavy missiles and light missiles. As one is for higher damage at having less range and increased explosion radius and decreased explosion velocity and the other adds range at less damage.

I believe this would fix a great deal of issues with rapids. It would need to be tested on SiSi, and adjusted as needed, but it would work. Also remember missiles need to be looked at for rebalance. I’d say HAMs need explosion radius and explosion velocity adjusted 10% to 15% to help them engage targets of the same size better. HMLs need relooked at all together. Defenders need replaces with a flare type defense, like combat planes today use, FoF, I don't know they just suck.

Or we can keep 40secs reload, up to you.

Adding 40secs reload to any weapon is just crazy.

Add with rockets it would be around 15km to 25km or so and wouldn't be doing what RLMLs use to do and that is do the job of HAMs and HMLs in one weapon system.

I know they didn't get the explosion bonuses before, just making it clear they shouldn't with rockets or HAMs either haha.

If you go into a fight knowing you can only kill one or two targets, that is **** poor planning, take it from someone who really does understand that, as it's his real job also. I'd NEVER go into a fight with a M4 that has a 10 round mag and takes 5 seconds to reload, that is crazy and no one would want you around them. Same idea here, NO weapon system should have a realod longer then 10secs, and doing this also brings a slippery slope into EVE now. If they did it with rapids, what else might they do it with later.

Keep 10secs reload and try this or something close to it on SiSi, and fix it for real instead of breaking it worse.