Player Features and Ideas Discussion

he said to drop the dps down to frig level many cruisers can do this w/o bonuses (not to t2 frig levels but t1) no they don't have bonuses rather they tend to have more hard points.


missiles have RLML and RHML because larger weapons can never apply full damage to a smaller target like turrets can this gives them a defense against smaller ships.


where turrets need to obtain this through Superior piloting these missile systems do it by sacrificing long term DPS

... so what is the drawback for the lasers again when i pare it up with a guardian or two?



also remember that light missiles an heavy missiles aren't chosen because they are the slower firing but because they are the ones that apply damage the poorest. a light missile will never be able to apply full damage to a properly fit frig w/o the help of ewar turret based weapons would not have this problem

please no to this they do not need them rather many of the ships that are only bonusd to one type of damage need to be just a blanket damage boost so application comes from finding resist holes rather than expl rad/vel

The drawback of lasers is high cap use. It has always been, it will always be. It is no small drawback, those things eat capacitor, and can't be fired without it. So, just make rapid fire lasers have a cap use similar to that of regular weapons their size (that is: a medium rapid laser made of small lasers will have medium-sized cap use, and so on).

1 - you can change the signature res of a turret
2- tracking and signature resolution are pretty much interchangeable if you dont mind ignoring the transversal on your overview. a 100% boost to tracking is exactly the same as halfing sig res. I learned this the hard way.



id stay away from 'rapid guns'. cause that IS tackler immunity. But you should also remember, when fitting for anti-frig you become weaker against anti cruiser and anti-battleship.

Where the old launchers were using small ammo, with small application and small-LONG range they were OP. But turrets could perform completely differently.

A medium electron with faster tracking does not have the range of small rails. It doesnt HAVE to have the tracking of small rails. It doesnt have to have the tracking of small neutrons or anything for that matter. Because every stat is modifiable on the turret itself it does not suffer any of the constraints that launcher variants had. You can make it whatever you need it to be.

Like i said, you could just buff tracking of rarely used weapons and make a frig killer that isnt OP like the old assaults and doesnt necessarily need the same treatment.

If that was done, these would have to use more cap than the typical weapon they are meant to replace. The whole premise behind the 'rapid' concept is to inflict bursts of damage with long waiting periods inbetween.

do you have an alt in uedama by any chance?

- too expensive
- cuts in to an already paper thin tank kiting ships have.... that are not the Ishtar, Orthros, ONI, and ScyFI
- not actually burst DPS, its just more of it.

and I'm not sure this applies to other polarized weapons but polarized ACs have an awful falloff.

Honestly, you got me...

No doubt... Crystals could be set to deteriorate at a higher rate, but I'm not sure if that would solve the underlying problem. Most likely lasers would have to have a slower rate of fire when compared to the other 'rapid' weapons such that the DPS is balanced.