Ships & Modules

Care to give some examples of "so many" Gallente ships that habitually fit rails? I can't think of a single ship that commonly fits medium rails aside from perhaps an Arazu, nor can I think of other sized ships save for a handful that "can work" with Rails (PvE fits, Taranis, Enyo/Catalyst maybe and obviously Talos).

Part of the reason fewer Amarr ships fit beam lasers is that scorch is so good. I'm not saying this is a bad thing, by the way, I don't think scorch should be nerfed - I'm just saying that because there is range overlap to an extent not really found in other turrets, pulses are a more common choice.

-Ed

Probably

No, not really justified anymore. WIll it change? No, probably not. Some artifacts of former mechanics will linger in the game. Look at recons still with absurd locking ranges, but no more ew range of old (went out with new probe mechanics and death of sniping anyway) which is probably a good thing.

But gg to have raised the question, I guess.

They already have natural buffs atm.

Lasers the largest Optimal -with scorch just admit it 40km+optimal with shortest range weapon system is silly.
Add the extra tank and long range weapons with a great alpha/dps strike you've got an excellent combo

Projectiles the largest fall off- hell with the shortest range ammo and gun projectiles med size can project 85% of their dps at 35km with regular te's, isnt this silly?
Add the speed, maneuvrability and think about large projectiles in some ships being able to hit for 85% of their dmg at 100km, now this is totally silly. Add dmg selection and you have something really overpowered, with long range weapons it's even worst, not only they have the alpha, they have the tracking and they have dmg selection making those the perfect long range weapon system.

Then if the above is not silly, what about the shortest weapon system with 7km optimal 14 fall off, this is for the largest ones. So shouldn't they tade that distance difference for a much bigger dps at their operating range? - I say yes, they should do even 30% more dps, you should feel your anus sweat at eatch gate since it's the only thing they're good for.
So to make it simple, either bring other short range weapons to closer range, either give blasters a lot more range, either give blaster ships accelleration/top speeds over everyone but biggest mass so it can't just stop easily or turn as easy as rusty crapy mappy opy stuff.

I don't think so. Let me show you my Tachyon Armageddon with 100mn MWD and Heavy cap booster blowing past PG by almost 40%. This bare bone setup needs at least 3 fitting mods before you can put anything else on it. Fitting "issues" are just dumb.

I can understand requiring fitting mods for newbies or over-the-top gimmicky setups like 100mn cruiser hulls but that's where it stops. Have AWU5, Engineering 5 and Electronics 5? You're good to go!

Large guns' specs (beam, rail and arties) are their own balancing factor. I know for a fact that forcing a RCU on the fit won't change that.

Then rejoyce - your wish has been granted. That's how it works now. Unless you're saying that lasers and projectiles should have their range nerfed to blaster range but blasters get to keep their superior damage, or blasters need another 30% damage on top of their already superior damage. In either case, I think that's excessive and unbalanced.

Altough it doesn't contribute to the topic in any meaningful way, I agree for the most part on all sub-bs, except for BS - Phoon, Pest and Maelstrom all have their roles, although the phoon is a bit skill intensive, however, I use all of them.
Geddon is a fine, cheap high dps ship, Apoc is a good sniper (ok - obsolete atm - at least I don't use them) and Abaddons - well - you know Abaddons.
Caldari and Gallente have distinct and usable tier 1+2 BS (although I never find myself using Caldari BS, despite having the skill at V), both their Tier 3's suck, although the Rokh may have profited more from the hybrid buff.

Anyway - that has nothing to do with Rails vs. Blasters, Beams vs. Pulses or Arties vs. ACs.