Ships & Modules

There is an incoming nerf, in theory. During FanFest one of the developers stated that he plans to make tracking disruption affect missiles. It's a **** poor idea, aside from the fact that missiles have no "tracking" per se. There's other ways to mitigate missile effectiveness and we don't need another Jesus Module.

What do you mean by "again"? IIRC the last time missiles received a nerf was very early in the game where they were given explosion radius/velocity.


Yeah, that's ******* stupid. If they're going to implement that, missiles should always hit for full damage on a stationary target, and hit instantly. After all, if they're going to give them all the disadvantages of turrets, they should give them the advantages as well.

There is a way to counter missiles. Go fast and keep a small sig. The thing about missiles is that those two things are effective at ANY RANGE and you don't have to care about things like Transversal.

Granted, defender missiles might need looking into (I've never used them, so no personal experience there). You can also destroy missiles with smart bombs.

Large missiles also so terrible damage to small targets, even if they're not moving quickly. This is unlike a larger turret, which can still pop a frigate as long as said frigate can be tracked effectively.

Missiles have a LOT of downsides compared to turrets - which are offset by a set of unique strengths. Different weapons systems are different, and that's a GOOD thing.

I suppose you "don't do" PvE?

Rats using defender missiles (with completely different mechanics than player ships, aka cheating) is one of the reasons why cruise missile Golems are terribad.

Pretty much. There are plenty of missile ships that suck, it isn't like missiles a free ride to being ~~"over balanced"~~.

The problem is usually the hulls, not the mods.

Tengu is OP because the bonuses are too good. I say the Tengu should be fixed by swapping its bonuses with the Legion-HAM subsystem bonuses.

Precisely why we should blanket nerf missiles. It's all just too ~meta~ for mere mortals to comprehend.

Now let's kick back and watch as some superior posters descent from the heavens to white-knight the caracal hulls.

Well it should be...

Yep, you can barely glance a rifter and instakill it if you use a titan.

(Citadel Torps don't instakill rfters, by the way)

I think one of the big problems with missile boats is the stupidly long range that's useless in almost every situation in EvE (PvE or PvP) + the fact that almost all the ships that use them have a further range bonus, essentially making them one bonus boats w/ a lackluster weapon system which just drives them into non-existence. Tracking disruptors effecting missiles will just ruin it =/

The only range bonused missile ship that sees the outside of a station in PvP is the Tengu, which gets ridiculous bonuses everywhere else which makes it work.

I think the TD affecting missiles blurb was in the context of rebalancing EWAR, rather than to specifically nerf missiles. In any case, it did not seem set in stone, at all.