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ICELANDIC MEGA PULSE LASER

No but seriously call it "Overcharged"

It obviously implies that the damage output is increased, but to "overcharge" something implies an element of risk or danger, since, well, it means to "charge something too much" essentially. In this case the increased damage comes from drawing excessive power from ship systems which leads to the detrimental effect on defensive capabilities.

Bastard Guns.

No one wanted them in the first place.

I figure CCP is looking for a replacement for attacking Sov structures. Caps aren't the answer for a lot of people (particularly small gangs) come phoebe. Subcaps need a weapon system to chew through sov structures.

I don't see this being it. There is too many weaknesses, for not enough damage. People are advocating that they may have a use on t1 ships, but bumping up the equip price of a t1 ship with these new weapons could probably pass 50 million for a t1 frigate, 100 million for a t1 cruiser, to maybe a billion for a t1 battleship. This is assuming each of these new guns is 20 million a piece.

I would look more towards retrofitting a specific subcap and making it a quazi artillery platform (create a new battlecruisers capable of doing about 1/5th the damage of a sieged dread, but incapable of targeting subcap).. I would take the weapons presented back to the drawing board and redo its mechanic. Maybe make the heat damage it takes or received affect its tank. You heat it, tank resistance goes up or down. Just something to provide it some depth, and not just a new deadspace toy that is inaccessible to the majority of eve players because it goes for hundreds of millions of Isk a piece.

All new equipment should have a focus on the newer younger pilots , and affordability for them. We need stuff to grab new players and keep them playing. You create a set of stuff most won't ever see or consider, your just removing them completely from the equation. Now does this mean that new stuff should ignore the older player? No, but this virtually excludes the entire new player base, for weeks or months or even years, from even conceivably considering to being used.

There are better options even in this thread.

Stigmatic:

A stigmatic weapon draws upon the life force of the wielder to empower its blows. This profane energy deals an extra 1d6 points of necrotic damage to the opponent, but reduces the wielder's elemental resistances to 0 while the weapon is drawn. Only short ranged weapons can be enchanted with this ability.

Aura: Moderate necromancy. Creation: Caster Level 9th, Craft Magic Arms and Armor, Lesser Jovian Gravebind. Price: +2 bonus.

They still need more damage. 35-40%. As for the name. Is CCP getting shaggy with us? MetaCCP? Stigmatic, really?

The issue is that a lot of Eve equipment is strongly tech-based. It would be as bad as getting an item in WoW called a "Dual-layered interlocking segmented chainmail".

I do not like to be offensive.. but ccp seriously... each CENT you spend on this feature is a wasted cent.

Just give us free subscription if you like to waste money.

I still think 'Berserker' weapons is the best suggestion.

It's a name people wont be embarrassed to use, fits in with the way the weapons work, and is acceptable in a sci-fi setting.

They are [supposed to be] high offence, low defence, burst weapons; as you smash your enemy or die in a blaze of glory.

Berserker fits that perfectly.

Stigmatic... well that's telling me that these weapons are shaming and embarrassing, That your referencing a religion
nobody [in game] has even heard of, or that these guns should have gone to specsavers...


EDIT: As has been said, some hint of the lore behind them or what kind of names you are kicking around and why
might help us understand/provide better suggestions if you don't like the ones proposed so far.
Unless and until we can work out what these guns are [supposed to be] good for it's hard to get the context.

Go home ccp your drunk.

Bad names are bad names.



Zero Heavy Pulse Laser


"Zero" Is your resists
"Zero" Is the number of people that want these weapons.
"Zero" Is the number of people that like the names.
"Zero" Is the grade ccp get for this.

At first I wasn't sure if the new name was worse or better than the old one. But I have now decided that they are both equally poor choices. I guess CCP is just trying to find words that have the same meaning across as many of their supported languages as they can, flavor and logic be damned. And its just not the name of these modules that is lack luster, the weapon itself is so niche as to be nearly pointless and not worth the coding time/art resources to even put them in.

Maybe CCP should push this project back until they can do it right. Because as of right now this feels like a hack job so they can claim that they put something new in to the game.