Warfare & Tactics

I think most players would agree Caldari need a pvp buff. A few awesome ships does not make up for a decent lineup across all classes which is what you get with Amarr & Winmatar. This is especially true because most of their ships are specialised and thus only suited for a few niche roles. They need more options than just Drake/Tengu or ECM. People who reply that Caldari are fine "because of Drake/Falcon" are just trolling.

The point is that the reasons the OP gives for buffing them are not really big problems. Caldari need a buff for the same reason that Gallente do - which is that the majority of their HYBRID ships suck and need fixing badly. Those fixes are coming this winter so we should wait and see how things look after this rebalance before asking for even more buffs/nerfs/changes.

OMG this guy is still going on about Caldari ships.

He has been complaining since more than a year ago. EVEseach the OP and you will see what I mean. You would figure by now he would have buffed up his fitting skills and learned how to take advantage of Caldari strengths, either that or cross trained.

drake with shield rigs, t2 ammo and mwd has 3000m signature radius (like carrier) that is freaking massive

Flying a Cerberus is fun. You can lob missiles at stuff from waaaaaay far off then you get yo watch all your targets warp off before missiles actually strike. It's real good stuff.

Drake single handedly invalidates all your points

Stop talking junk, the Hookbill is one of the best frigates that isnt called Dramiel/Daredevil. The Hawk is arguably one of the best AFs now, Dual Web/Active/Mse Buffer, Are all fantastic fits. The Harpy is as good as any blaster frigate. The Merlin/Kestrel are both brilliant t1 frigates, a well fit Merlin is as good as any Rifter and the Kestrel is decent.
The Buzzard is also brilliant as a combat cov ops frigate.

Caldari are overpowered.

How about flying caldari ships on caldari way?

Original post is, for the most part, complete and utter nonsense. Basically lists every "disadvantage" he can think of without mentioning any of the reasoning behind it. E.g:

Slower ships .... better damage projection, more lows for nanos
No room for ewar .... don't use all the MANY mids for tank. Caldari ships have more mids for a reason.
Not enough damage .... more room in lows for damage mods due to shield tanking

Also conveniently forgotten is the fact that Minmatar mostly shield tank, and mostly have less mids than Caldari. Then there's the whole fact that even Gallente ships resort to shield tanks because their combat philosophy of armor tanking while needing to get in extremely close, thus needing speed, but losing it because of armor mods/rigs, don't mesh with one another. (that last point isn't entirely relevant, but highlights how Caldari ships are fundamentally designed better than Gallente ones at present).

The only vaguely valid point is on the Caldari hybrid lineup, which points the finger squarely at hybrids, not Caldari in general. But wait.. they're trying to buff hybrids because they know it's a problem! Think yourself lucky you aren't forced into using hybrids like anyone looking to fly most Gallente ships :)

I could go on (such as selectable damage types, racial resist bonus rather than rep amount, ECM, blah bla), but there's little point as the first reply sets the record straight (+1 to you sir).

-Ed