Ships & Modules

not at all. the main vs. alt argument is a pointless one. many people post on alts to protect their corps from their personal opinions.

you can have all the kb history in the world, and still be disconnected from reality. and the reality is that the top two trolls in this thread (Liang and Cholo) dont actually fly the Gallente ships theyre arguing about, whereas someone like me has flown nothing but Gallente ships since 2006. you dont have to believe it, and i dont care. but i know when MY ships are not considered viable in fleets.

Obviously you've never watched any of Kil2's videos... And those were pre-blaster buff. If you have seen them, then you are a troll. If you haven't seen them, I suggest you go watch them and see how mean a solo active tanked Brutix can be. Not even nano, active armor tanked.

http://www.club-bear.com/

Mmmmhmmmm. Are you also an RL millionaire with multiple ferraris and a kickboxing girlfriend?

(also, I am sure there are many people who will do mean things to your [doubtless very accomplished and impressive] corp/alliance/federation of delusional fantasists because of your opinions on the current state of the [meta]game. do we not remember the fall of BoB, instigated by some guy expressing an unorthodox opinion on the merits of the harbinger?)

LOL

I'm going to guess that you are refering to the video on his youtube site called "solo brutix fail" where he engages a Cane, a Rapier, and a third shipt I can't identify on my work pc. Maybe not the best one to judge the Brutix on considering the title.

after that he should go see vids about winmatar , there are at least 2 dozens of it , he cant even miss them

You keep getting more ridiculous with every post :/

May sound weird, but EHP and DPS are really not basic design features. Because your role isn´t determined by them. Let me give you an analogy:
If someone is a wizard is determined by the fact that this char can cast spells.
A warrior can use heavy weapons and armor.
Neither their hp nor their damage has anything to do with their role, a wizard with much hp wont be a warrior, but just a wizard with much hp. No reasonable amount of hp will ever make up for the fact that he can not use weapons besides daggers and staffs and wears no armor.
Of course, having more hp makes sense for a warrior, therefore he will usually have more than a wizard, but this is secondary to the basic design feature: weapons and armor.

Not to mention that in any game new chars will have always less hp and damage than old chars. Does that change their roles?

In eve you can see the same effect. Minmatar have significantly less EHP and DPS than Gallente, given these values they should be a far third place or dead last place in close combat, yet they are the best here, or if someone wants to share your enthusiasm for the buff, a close second. And Gallente should never has sucked as much as they did even before the buff.

That´s because their basic design makes Minmatar the optimized close combat race, so they can perform very well here even with that handicap (i did say that they will need considerably more tracking and somewhat more dps accompany the range change to that of blasters. EHP not so much since they probably need even more speed to make close combat useful in fleet warfare, and speedtanking and much ehp could be too much, but these are things that could be tested.).

Using EHP and DPS for determining the role never works out. This is the reason Gallente only have a few niches left, what the devs never intended they are allegedly working on changing that, they would have rather the close combat tactic widely used with the other tactics because of variety. But this will fail. They are currently looking for a method to make them viable again in fleet warfare, mainly of course trying to solve the problem that Blasters can´t get close enough fast enough.
But what will happen if they are finally succeding with this, will then close combat actually come out of it´s niche?
Well, again the fact that neither the ships nor the weapons are designed for close combat screws up months of work and leave blasters a weapon for docking games and suicide ganking.
After all, a fleet can be configured in a way that it has quite respectable abilities to cap out everything that comes close enough. If blasters can come close enough in time to be an issue (and are getting accordingly more widely used), this will become a standard configuration for fleets. So they can effectively take out blasters without even wasting their dps on them, they can fire on the ships that won´t close in. The Gallente either keep out of range and do no damage or they close in and do no damage, because they are capped out.
After that blasters will -again- disappear from being considered useful in fleet warfare.

For close combat fleet warfare a capless weapon is not just nice to have, it´s an absolute requirement, which brings us of course back to the Minmatar.

Ah yes, by the way, i´m still curious about the features that makes Gallente so specialized for close combat.

wow thats pretty imbalanced also considering the fact that blasters use tons of capacitor especially with t2 ammo and no selectable damage types .....

and yes it only gets worse ... you can barely even fit the smallest medium blasters on a thorax and vexor for example and even then you have to sacrifice something else to get them on.

Its not just buff speed, range, dmg, web range, etc. Use the correct combination of posible ewar favored for gallentes like

New bonuses for gallente blaster boats: warp scambler range per lvl, or fix dampener so at least you can avoid getting hamered before you enter into the hotzone

Speaking of design unless I'm wrong gallente fleet doctrine is supposed to be to damp enemy weapon range to near 0 and then rush in with blasters basing, this ofc. is about as useful as the "charge of the light brigade" vs. a machine gun nest.

Question is how do we make this scenario feasible in EVE's current meta game ?