So at which point does your idea remove any ISK from the game?

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So at which point does your idea remove any ISK from the game?

at the point where faction weapons like republic fleet autos/artis are destroyed when the ship is blown up.

Im going to spend the extra isk on faction weapons on my megathron why?

To be honest I just don't see the point. If somebody has skills for T2 guns they aren't going to use faction guns. T2 guns do more DPS with their appropriate specialization skill than faction guns, at a fraction of the cost.

I don't know if I'm on-board with the idea of faction guns using advanced ammo, though. The ammo is designed to be loaded into specialized hardware that requires certain skills to be able to operate. It seems to me that it would cheapen what T2 ammo is to allow low-tech weapons to load advanced ammo.

hence the proposal of a additional skill require to be trained to implement this from a player side of things

Hmm...That still doesn't take care of the fact that T2 guns will deal more damage with T1/Faction/T2 ammo than their faction counterparts. If this skill buffed faction gun damage then I can see a case for it. Though from a storyline perspective it's my understanding that faction guns are just very well-engineered variants of T1 technology. Enabling T2 ammo usage for faction guns would implicitly enable the use of T2 ammo for T1 hardware.

Maybe the T2 ammo would damage the T1 hardware, and the skill could help mitigate this? This idea seems to be a little complex from a storyline perspective. I like your concept of buffing faction guns to be in line with the cost/benefit trade-off of other T2/faction module pairings, but I'm more in favor of making the hardware more specialized rather than just making it better than T2.

I think that that's the kind of path that CCP would rather take--specialization over iteration.

But the Cost/benefit trade off of faction guns isn't static, its determined by the market and by the fact that they are not easily aquired. Any change in this would, most likely, increase the price significantly I would guess. It is odd to me that faction mwd and faction point are certainly better than T2, but faction guns are not. That should probably change. Personally, I'm cheap and have never looked into using them so take my opinion with a grain of salt.

Make T3 ammo then.

100 rounds of T3 ammo requires 100 rounds of T1 and another 100 rounds of T2 +
Something you can only get by mining in low sec.

Result is a Hybrid damage, lacks the penalties but 15% less of the original t2 bonus.

May be used in META 5+ guns only

Thus creating something that doesn't encroach on what we already have and fills that void at the other end of the spectrum.

Tweak and bake until ready

that would pritty much kill incursions which is not the idea.

Butbutbut, didn't CCP already 'kill hundreds of communities' when they made them harder?

Ed: Have to admit, let me load up T2 ammo and make Caldari Blasters have 2x optimal and Federation Navy Blasters have 2x Falloff.... !

Currently the only reasons (that I'm aware of) to use faction guns are if you don't have the skills for T2 guns, or if your fit is tight on powergrid/CPU--which probably just means that you haven't trained the weapons upgrade skills.