Trasher
7 high/ 7 turrets
3 mid
3 low

then we have balance !

anyway why not just add one slot for all, all newly rebalanced frigates have enough slots and fitting to make those usable, no need to stick on old with destroyers, ADD ONE SLOT FOR DESTROYERS. Those will not come overpower but usable and easier to fit.

You can sure find some good balance by adding one slot and nerfing some other stats.

Then you might explain me when Thrasher isn-¦t that much overpowered why I see Thrasher fleets consisting of six up to twelve and more Thrashers every day and never ever saw a catalyst, cormorant or coercer fleet?

Unfortunately some of us don't give a damn about (T1) destroyers. I haven't flown one in the last 3 years and don't intend to ever in the future.

I know why these changes are necessary: You think DUST players will want decent ships within the first 30 seconds of starting EVE, something they can get into a fight with and hope to kill something. While I can see why you want to satisfy them, have you considered that any DUST player that lacks the patience to wait a few weeks to get into decent ship won't become a long term EVE subscriber anyway?

I think you are spending too much time on balancing the beginner ships at the expense of leaving serious gameplay issues that affect older players completely unfixed. In particular, I would rather see a post about giving supercaps proper roles and abilities than about adding 6 CPU to a destroyer.

I don't want to be harsh, but it really sounds like "sup dawg, I (may) have read the 11 pages, and I think my first idea was the best, I won't change anything, see you later on TQ o/".