Ships & Modules

Projectiles got tweaked with the Svipul release and lazors got tweaked with the Confessor, but CCP has ignored posts in the Jackdaw thread asking about similar treatment for missiles with the Jackdaw release.
Do you guys think CCP is trying to make it a surprise when they release some missile tweaks? I don't.
I think it's more likely that CCP is continuing to ignore missiles in favor of just about everything else, Fozzie sov and more Gallente features.
Has anyone heard anything I haven't about this? If I'm wrong I would like to know it.

Examples of missile tweaks could be:
-Updating rockets
-Torpedo range and/or application
-Heavy Missiles. Just about everything with Heavy's could use a look
-General missile speed with the possible exception of lights
-Kinetic locks. Why are they still a thing?
-Something new, like maybe an anti-capacitor missile similar to the Void bomb? 0 damage but drains some cap, scales with size. Just an off the wall idea that I, literally, thought up just now.

Again, those are just some examples off the top of my head of things that could be addressed in a missile tweak, some might be big enough issues to justify being put off but the constant silence from CCP on the subject of missiles is disconcerting and only serves to reinforce the opinion of some that there is an institutional hate for missiles within the Devs.

Thoughts? Opinions? Find something pertinent that negates this post? Please post.
Have a nice day,

CCP still believe HMs were OP because of how much use they were getting. I think the real reason they saw so much use was that they were an accessible weapon system, along with the Drake being an accessible ship. I think it was unfair to nerf them.

Rockets are in a pretty good place, it gets decent dps, decent application and excellent range (for a short ranged weapon system). Light missiles on the other, they are in a somewhat good place but the Garmur and Orthrus make them broken but that's mostly due to the ships themselves and links, it's a whole different can of worms so I won't go into that too much. HAMs aren't too terrible but definitely need looking at in terms of damage application, it's quite poor even on Cruisers.

But heavies...ahh heavies, the double nerf (range + application) they took with the glory days of the Draek absolutely wrecked it. It's pretty much a laughing stock on any ship at this point with almost zero reason to ever fit it on anything. Rapid heavies aren't too bad mostly because battleships that use them have the utility slots to make it apply well to Cruisers as well as having good front loaded dps. Cruise missiles are also quite good with solid dps and ridiculous range even though the application is somewhat lacking. Torps definitely need looking at, the damage application is just too poor and even the range is pretty pathetic when you compare it to other short-range battleship weapons.

TL;DR
HAMs, Heavies and Torps direly need looking at. Rockets, Rapid Heavies and LMLs are fine. Garmur and Orthrus needs nerfing.

problem is, is that aside from the normal nerfs, CCP keeps making things faster, now AB's and MWD's are getting a speed boost, while the MWD signature is reduced.

almost ever ship has become faster since the rebalance,

damage application should be severely looked at.

Maybe some modules, that will affect application at the cost of range , giving the missiles longer range with less application. and a module that does that the other way around.

then giving short range missiles better application and less damage, and make a module that give more damage at the cost of application and one that does it the other way around.

would need a complete rebalance of the missiles on it self, due to the limited number of slots available.

though by making those modules, it gives player to adjust to the continues changes that this game has.

Fuzzy only knows how to kite in pvp. He doesn't like brawling or things that promote it (brawling to some is 80+ archons with sentries deployed). Since he's been hired he's nerfed webs, reduced mwd sig blooms, sped up ships, reduced mass/improved agility on otheres, created the ishtard and is still progressively nudging the game toward the risk averse kiting meta.

He loves armor hacs and thinks little of brawlers or missile boats. He's been pretty rough on parts of the game he isn't intimate with. (he got duped on mass/range in wh space). Overall I like that he's a decision maker and that he gets things done. He could however use a mentor to keep large groups from duping him.

With the exception of the ishtard I like a really good 'bad change' as it creates some chaos and favors those who can adapt.

Now that RLML and RHML are a thing I see any changes to normal heavies falling to the bottom of the pile. My reasoning is you can use RLML instead of heavies on cruiser/BC platforms and heavy missiles are now going to be balanced with RHML in mind.

TL/DR Based on changes over the last few years HML II are for chumps and nobody cares - sorry??

You're presuming a lot of choice exists. Most ships have a single, perhaps 2, legitimate builds. Those builds dictate most of the fitting - including rigs. There can be some flexibility from ship to ship to suit the players' tastes/needs, but cookie cutters have been the order of the day for a long time.

HMs and HAMs are fine as they are. They each serve their purpose and serve them at least moderately acceptably. Of the 2, the HM's appear the worse off. HAMs are actually pretty fun to use, but yes, range is a PITA.

I'm not sure I rig for range even with HAMs for the most part, but that depends on what I'm doing. My Serpentis ratting HAM Tengu has no range rigs because the anom rats always spawn in the same general location - so I can just orbit a wreck and kill everything before it gets a chance to move away. Frigate can be challenging to take down, but I'm usually team-ratting anyway.

Does it seem weird to anyone that they promote kiting, but they murdered the Heavy missile Drake?

why would they need to balance medium and large sizes for the release of a destroyer?
be glad they overlooked the state of light missile on this release or you would have likely got a new nerf

You're just being grumpy.

Not exactly an armor hac. It wasn't the right kind of kiting. To be fair they weren't exactly woo hoo this is fun kind of fleets. Fuzzy likes guns, guardians and tiny sig radii - you really can't stuff the drake into that box.