Ships & Modules

As part of a corp / alliance that admits that more than a 5 man gang is "blobbing", as you will be ganking loners ("in their home space, it's still ganking :O) I couldn't agree more...
But guess what: what CCP tries to make for ages now is to focus into the "mass effect" in EvE gameplay... 10 vs 10, 5 vs 5, 32 vs 32 - all MMOs could do that...but only EVE could do 200 vs 200 or 500 vs 1000, so they gave more and more into promoting that fact...

Now that blobbing is all there is for 99% of the PvP out there, blasters cannot cut it...extra range, extra dps etc...won't change much, as to maintain the slightest variety blasters cannot be ACs, nor Pulses...

The thing is that AC and Pulse changes over the years already lead to "bended" rules etc, with some weapon platforms being too good all around. You simply use them with no compromises (yes, projectiles), and most other times you can afford to compromise, you use the best in it's own department (aka arties for alplha or lasers for non-reloading, hi dps projection). For more small scale stuff, HMLs...period. Why go for "all-or-nothing" blaster stuff than "always something" with the other platforms?

I've been flying solo or in really small gangs, usually 2-3 people mostly over the last 2+ years. The only ships that allow me to use blasters as intended, are frigs, where solo and 1vs1 still exists. Daredevils and Taranises are fun this way, and do have the face-melting advantage if you pick range of engagement favorably. You have ridiculous low range, but 2x the DPS of the average combat frig...even 3x in some cases. This doesn't scale up in any other size...best case you get 1.2x the DPS or break even with lasers and/or projectiles. Diminishing returns as you start applying ur advantage usually too late to turn the tides...

It's not about balls - I usually have balls and I don't care about losing ships much, i just don't like silly losses without killing at least the same ISK value I'm losing, and large blaster ships with no support usually lead to nothing but that. And that is NOT fun...challenge accepted and pwned.

What u are describing is silly HACs drifting into your neut's or scram's range and dying...cause otherwise, Mega's cannot do much better than any close range high dps BS...and there are a handful of those...so ask for more hacs flying solo, engaging BSs.

Why fly something worse? No one eats **** flavoured ice cream in a misguided attempt to be unique.