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Gypsio III
Dirty Filthy Perverts
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Posted - 2009.10.12 09:49:00 -
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How do they compare when fit for sniping? My understanding was that the Revelation was the "best" long-range dread, does that still hold true?
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Gypsio III
Dirty Filthy Perverts
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Posted - 2009.10.14 17:14:00 -
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 Originally by: Herschel Yamamoto
the Naglfar the agile one
Originally by: Herschel Yamamoto
and hopefully no more "Naglfail" jokes.
I see.
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Gypsio III
Dirty Filthy Perverts
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Posted - 2009.10.16 17:56:00 -
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Originally by: Major Hunt
Pulse should be the longest range short range weapon, as it is in every other ship class in EvE. Dont break your own convention! Blasters should be the highest DPS, but the shortest range. If they require you to fit different ammo to shoot a POS, so be it. All weapons should not instantly be able to do xxx just because another race can. The variety in EvE is the fact that out of the box solutions are sometimes required to make a weapon/ship viable in a role. Autocannons should have 2x the falloff of thier optimal, as is the convention.
Short range weapons should be that, short range. Amarr have an advantage in range, but lack as muc DPS. Minmatar have huge falloff and variable damage type. Gal have high DPS, but need to be close as possible.
As for the weapons purpose, make them anti capital. Forget the POS, its not a viable option to shoot POS without breaking every convention you have already in place for weapon classes. Leave the variety in the weapons stats.
If you really want to make short range capital turrets an option for shooting POS, give them a range bonus whilest in siege only! eg 100% range bonus whilest in siege
Nonsense. Nobody uses the short-range capital weapons right now because they're useless against POS and you need more range against capitals.
Balancing the short-range weapons around POS-shooting is entirely correct. Sod the racial conventions, they're meaningless in the specific case of stationary objects shooting other stationary objects at a fixed range. There's no room for variability in that role, and so we shouldn't hamstring ourselves over blind devotion to subcapital weapon variations. Besides, those subcapital weapon variations aren't there to provide RP fluff, they're there to provide good balance - but this simply doesn't apply on the capital scale, with short-range capital weapons so strictly defined in role. Making short-range weapons useless against everything just because that works with sub-XL weapons is absurd.
The balance between different Dreads will come from comparisons of performances at long-range and at short range; the one with the highest anti-POS, short-range DPS should be the one weakest at long-range. One Dread will best at hitting POS, another at sniping.
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Gypsio III
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Posted - 2009.10.26 10:44:00 -
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No, it's just a dreadnought, it's there to engage stationary objects and other capitals, not to kill subcapitals. Remove the drone focus on the Moros entirely. I fly a Moros - but I don't use it to camp a kickout station in proabbly the most dangerous system in Eve.
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