Ships & Modules

Methinks someone has missed the joke....

DIE MOST

Mostly dies. Dies mostly. Etc.

the remnants of HAC role (sniping) has been stolen by tier 3 bc's.tier 2 BC's nullified close to medium range HAC setups years ago. all that is left for HAC's now is ARMOUR HACS!!!! with logi support, which is basically just the Zealot and the gimped Deimos. this is yet another example of how CCP doesnt think.

as for Gallente pilots being crybabies, this is generally incorrect. the people you see in top ranks of BC have accepted the limited, niche role of Gallente ships. this involves players who fly AC Myrms, solo blaster Megas, Comets, and maybe a few others. ive made Gallente work for me, but i am entitled to more. the people making noise about Gallente being teh suck are the ones advocating for interracial BALANCE. every race should have ships that can fit into a wide range of roles. Gallente ships simply have not been a representation of this.

in fact, it is easily argued that Minmatar are still the best brawlers. Hurricanes, Cynabals, Machariels, Maels, nano Pests. the best ships in the game for most situations in the game. need i say more? nope, argument is done. i still fit AC's on my Myrm and will continue to do so until rails or null are buffed. ok so Gallente are still the second best brawlers, and what else? nothing.

i guess i meant anywhere between close to medium range. Machs, Cynabals, nano Pests, Canes can all dictate ranges on their counterparts. medium range is where it's at (20-50km). point blank engagements rarely occur. maybe once in a blue moon, then Liang writes blogs about it within scram range, Gallente rule, I'll give you that.

the problem is, AC's get the best of both worlds. you can brawl ok, and do fantastically at medium range. all this with one turret type. how does this make sense? the only thing required to make this game decent once again is to simply nerf something relating to AC's. falloff, TE's, ship bonuses, whatever. AC's are the faceroll of EVE.

unfortunately, i wont be fitting rails on my Myrm until theyre buffed. you can fit 200's on a shield Myrm, but theyre outperformed by 425 AC's even with the null buff, 425's >>>> Neutrons (unless at point blank).

TLDR: AC's OP, fly Matar to win, flying point blank range ships is a huge gamble and only fail fleets fail against these boats.

Still have far too high fitting requirements and atm while waiting for ship individual tweaks rails setups are fake and still the choice i'll never make over even meta 3 Arty (I can use T2's OC).
This being said yes, they can track now and that's half of the work done.

Someone posted the interest about using alpha over rof, you guys should take a close look at to understand why it's completely impossible as it stands to make rails good for something else than pew mission rats.

They're in need of long range ammo with lot more dps or gun it self dmg modifier to get some interesting alpha, thing is that for rails to become interesting they are in need of something they will never get, even lasers that have the second best alpha in game became almost unused, there's a reason for that and that's not only the hull/guns price.

EDIT: the new Null buff witch is about +40% range instead of +25% should give a nice improvement to the number of situations where Diemos can man up despite his slow brick top speed. Hope more tweaks about the ship now are on the way like take away that high slot and either give another mid or another low.

Rails:
Optimal
DPS*
Barely noticable tracking

Artillery:
Falloff
Interchangable damage types
No cap
A **** ton more alpha

*The DPS increase is so small the interchangable damage type probably makes artillery better DPS as well or at least about equal.

Are gallente ships so incredibly good their weapons has to be worse? Maybe their bonus structure would just be overpowering if paired with a strong weapon system. It feels like I'm forgetting something that's good about rails though because surely it cannot be this blatantly broken?

Confirming I am a carebear and wish for my blasters to do more damage.

Oh. ****.

/respect

-Liang

5m isk a ticket :D

Gallente pilots dont want the range of caldari. We just want the faster speed, since our guns require close range..

We know Minmatar pilots such as yourself would hate to have ships that can actually compare to yours.

If caldari range was such a game changer, why is it that you only see 1 caldari ship on fleet in mass and the rest are refusefd by people to be used in pvp...

Yet Minmatar ships are every where you look...Hmm ever stop to think everyone wants you all nerfed because CCP went way overboard on the buffs?

Dont tell me, its racist to be equal, right?