EVE General Discussion

1. Amarr lasers use a lot of cap, and i think you'll find every single crystal does EM and Thermal, and not enough range? Heard of Scorch? It makes pulse lasers very effective at longer ranges considering its the short ranged weapon of Amarr.

2. Yeah this is pretty much right, but lasers doing explosive damage wouldnt make sense.

3. Amarr is great and Gallente is very good but has more of a niche roll, its just not Winmatar or the kings of PvE Caldari

4. You should have a 4th question

You won't get a response from the DEVs. They prefer to watch players slug it out in threads over whether or not different races/ships/weapons/mods are under or overpowered.

1a. Amarr ships have capacitor bonuses because Lasers eat up A LOT of capacitor. A good example is the Abaddon which, even when using Standard crystals, will cap itself out just running the guns alone (assuming "standard PvP" fit).
As for the limitation with damage types... Lasers make up for this by; being able to change their ammo (and thus their range) in under a second, having fairly high damage modifiers, and a "long" optimal range for a "short range" weapon.

2a. Not really true. Many Caldari ships only get bonuses for kinetic missiles which does limit them in choosing missiles of a different damage type. Minmitar ships being able to choose damage types has been a point of some contention though.

3a. Amarr ships are hardly "useless." In fact, many 0.0 alliances have total hard-ons for Amarr ships because; they don't "need ammo," they can swap crystals and thus change ranges in an instant, they deal a fairly consistent rate of damage at medium ranges, they are tanky, etc. etc.
Gallente ships have their problems, mostly with regards to how they have the shortest range weapons in the game with some of the heaviest ships. However, they are also not "useless." They have their charm and place, having ships that can employ shield tanks, armor tanks, buffer tanks, active tanks, gunboats, droneboats, high versatility and/or utility abilites.

TL;DR... Amarr ships excel at fleet warfare and are mediocre with most other things outside of that combat style. Gallente are "wild cards" and can be fit and re-fit for a variety of combat situations... though they still won't be as good as the "specialist" ship they are emulating.

Yay forums.

There are just alot more variables to balanceing a ship then dps and tank or so, but there is drake. If no secondary attributes get to you I would recomend training drake or tengu maybe abbadon then.

I think Amarr ships are great but doing what they did with the Apoc to some of the other ships with cap use bonus would be good.

You see the Apoc used to have a cap use bonus and a capacitor amount bonus and it was a crappy ship. Then they put the cap amount bonus into it's base stats and added a range bonus. Now it's a much better ship being able to project 700DPS to 80km with awesome tracking when fit right.

They should increase the base cap for the Maller and Prophecy by 30% and add a range bonus instead. Other then that change Amarr ship kick booty.

*Sighs* Minmatar can use all damage types equally for the simple fact that we're better than you. How many times do we need to say it?

Well if you hit metal with a laser as powerfull as eves. it would explode, as it would be turned to gas / vaporised that quickly, thus doing EXP damage.
EvE is one of the few sci fis were the lasers aren't partical stream based.. which counts out them doing Kinetic unless they change it.

The amount of electron induction in the Terrajoule ranges into the material is so massively high that it trancends from a solid to a plasma state, the amount of energy required to skip converting into liquid gas then a plasma are cricumvented in a pico-second.

Materials that suffer this sudden change in life style sorta explode, just like teenagers.

Now granted All races have thier 'problems' but problems are meant to be conquerable obstacles. Which is the current case for alot of ammarian ships.

In the gallente case however thier 'problems' are not obsticales that are meant to be conquered they are 'inherint' flaws or basically a brick wall with little to no ways of getting around.

When Killboards declare that in the top 20 ships to be making kills last year and not a single one of them is gallente and pods have more kills than them, you know there is a problem somewhere in the machine.

If every race could do the same things then race and bloodline would be even more cosmetic/meaningless.

1. The ship stats are mediocre, but they make the guns useable, and the gun stats are awesome. Scorch is magic, Tachs are magic on the right ship, and instead of fighting in dps eating falloff, Lasers can usually fight in optimal all the time, for more magic the ship stats don't show. And Abaddons have tanks as brickey as their looks.

2. For PvP everyone omnitanks more or less, so who cares. For PvE, just use the right ship for the job, and again nobody cares.

3. Amarr is absolutely useless. That's the reason no alliance flies Hellcats, nobody uses Guardians for armor logi, Zealots in Ahac fleets, Curses for solo roams, Abaddons for cheap neuting fun, Paladins for PvE, Archons for suicide triage duty. And surely Aeon and Nyx pilots were tricked into flying those terrible useless ships. And think of the poor Avatar and Erebus pilots, locked into their worse ships. Dominixes are clearly useless in every aspect, Thanatos's can't rat at all, Ishkurs are terrible frigate roamers, nobody likes kiting with an Arazu in fleet, and the Ishtar is a useless PvE ship.

tl;dr you decided that Eve was tl;dr..... Can I have your stuff?