Ships & Modules

honestly, ive never had problems fighting rifters, and i fly primarily punishers and harbys... (would've totally gotten kills for them aswell, but im too goddamn lazy to go all the way abck to highsec/amarr to buy a freakin scram and web skillbooks)

You are correct to certain extent in that there are people who jump into bandwagon, but some of the balance issues have been brought by people who can fly all ships, and fron experience can say that sone ships have no advantage to offer while having all the disadvantages. I can fly all sub caps with near max skills and i have soft spot for gallente, and pretty much the only reason i fly them is for the sheer fun factor of blaster boats and drone pwnage, not really for its efficiency. Having said that i do not like the idea of nerfing minmatar - their ships are well balanced and work well, u
Its just that gallente needs a buff, which i wont get into now as there are already enough threads about this and cco is already looking at the issue, rightly so.

yea, wtf.. i whole heartedly enjoy flying everything I fly. One of the reasons is because I know how to fit the damned things. Only whinners, nitpickers and people who have watched too much film 2011 w/ jonathan ross moan.

Everyone is a critique.

Balance isn't terrible. As someone who fly's mainly Gallente/Amarr I don't need to be fotm. Just competitive. And in some hulls Gallente is very competitive, the Taranis is a beast of a ceptor. The Vexor and Thorax are 2 of the best t1 cruisers you can fly. The Myrm is competitive with any BC in the game. That said most of the reason these ships are "good" is in spite of the current hybrid suck, not because of it.

My best observation of why Gallente needs a boost is watching the AT's. These are dedicated teams of people able to fly anything they choose, fit in any way they can possibly come up with. And the VAST majority of successful teams employed the Matar rush. Darkside put up a nice fight with it's Amarr based teams, and sure you had some Tengu love in lots of the early fights. Look at what the Winners used to rip through the competition though. Sure pilot skill played a HUGE factor in it, but all the same they all ran Matar centric teams once they stopped the lolfleets. I have no problem with a single race's ships having an edge one way or the other. Having the best of everything though? Seems a bit much to me.

Hybrid ships currently have a harder time fitting weapons than any other in the game.

Gallente hybrid ships, being primarily armor tanked, have a harder time getting the enemy into their effective range than any other ship type in the game. Caldari hybrid ships are a bit better at it, but have no damage bonus, and long range snipers are currently almost useless.

Blasters with no tracking bonus currently cannot track properly at their own optimal range, unless both ships are sitting still or close to it.

Blasters currently have about half the effective range of the other two short range turrets, but only 10% more damage, if that.

Railguns currently have no useful role that isn't better filled by either lasers or artillery.

Blasters have no role that is not better filled by autocannons.




Minmatar ships typically do not have a significantly worse tank than other races, by virtue of their weapons leaving MUCH more room for fitting than the other three races. (Though admittedly Amarr and Caldari to pull ahead when buffer is of great importance)

Projectile ships certainly do not take more skill to use than the other races. There's a reason that the Rifter, Dramiel, Cynabal, Machariel, Rupture, Hurricane, Thrasher, Maelstrom, Vagabond, Vargur, Jaguar, Sabre, and Firetail are all considered either the most generally useful ship in their specific market segment, or close enough to the top that it's hard to call. And it sure as hell isn't because the other ships take less skill to use.





edit/rant: Actually, at the moment, gallente hybrid boats take a significantly higher amount of pilot skill than any other type, because to win, you HAVE to be the one controlling range, against ships that are almost always going to be faster than you. Caldari and Minmatar, the primary pvp opponents you'll see, are usually shield tanked and thus inherently faster, but even the armor matar ships are still faster than armor gallente ships.

The one really good standout PVP ship that gallente have is the Taranis, and it fares better with a HULL tank than an armor tank, ffs.

Stop trying to defend projectile turrets, they're OP.