Ships & Modules

quoting myself here...

~700dps
~40km falloff
~0.05 tracking (more than my nightmare which still hits frigates ~15km)
no deadzone thanks to the undersized AC (0.1x tracking)

It works fine as a lvl 4 support.

We made a Drake/Naga team for lvl 4 missions. Drake draws argo Naga snipes from long range.

as for solo-ing missions I'd advice against it, you'll get killed by elite frigates, web/scamble and you'll die a long slow death.

…except that against cruisers, that's actually the equivalent of a 0.03 rad/s tracking, and against frigates, it's 0.01. That translates into 50m/s transversal at 5km; 250m/s transversal at 25km. So yes, it most certainly has a dead sone. You'll likely have the speed to keep stuff out of it, but saying it isn't there is somewhat inappropriate.

Then maybe you should have indicated that more clearly since “dual lasers” exist in more than one size category; since “electron blasters” exist in all three sizes; since 250mm rails are medium rails; leaving “large autos” as the only indication of what you were talking about (and even then, calling them dual 425s had been a better distinguishing description). Reading again doesn't help much when the words “heavy”, “cannon”, and “dual” (which make a world of difference) weren't there. vOv

Anyway, yes, going for the smallest large turrets makes things a bit easier, but the problem largely remains the same: you're picking the wrong tools for the job and then decreasing its abilities to make it a tiny bit better at something it's no good at. If you want to fly them, I'd rather suggest you use them as support ships for group L4s or some such. At least then you can actually make use of the damage potential.

i agree only partially. i did a plot of only the medium gun (425mm medium prototype, regular EMP) with the following input:
- all5 skills
- no implants
- 40m target sig
- 250m/s target velocity
- 90° target angle

the damage peaks at ~8km distance with ~32dps. a 280mm T2 artillery (SMALL weapon size) even came close to 35 dps with Quake S and a steady ~24dps between 5 and 20km with faction Titanium. reducing the target's velocity or angle obviously profits the medium guns, to a point where a 425mm T2 can get well over 60dps, which is as much as 3-4 light drones. at around 20km the large guns kick in and from then on, you get a steady 100+ dps even against such an extreme target.

with regard to the vigorous top speed of 1660m/s it is a decent emergency solution, although you really should call it your 'barely alive' zone for when you get webbed at least 3 times.

edit: **** this forum