Phyre
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Posted - 2005.01.14 09:47:00 -
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I consider myself a Megathron pilot. It's what I use now, because honestly, it's my only bs left :P
However, my first BS was an Apocalypse. I loved it, but I've always had a special love for hybrids, and I "grew up" in Eve hearing about how fantastic Megathrons were, so I wanted one for pvp, then I could keep my Apoc for rat hunting and agent missions and mining. Unfortunately, it was a stupidly overpowerful level3 agent mission that ended my Apoc. So now I use the Megathron, which was built shortly after my Apoc bit the dust.
When I first got it, I tried to fit all seven of the short range guns - blasters. I found myself struggling to fit six and still maintain a meager defensive setup. I also had to fit a mwd in order to get to the close ranges required to use the blasters. I remembered then, my apoc never had this problem. I had such free range to fit whatever I chose, and unless I wanted to fit a plethora of Tachyons, I could do whatever I wanted. 8 Megapulse lasers and full armor tank setup? np. 4 Tachyons, 4 Megapulse lasers and full armor tank setup? np. DUAL Lg. Armor reps? I had the cap to tank two Ravens.
Then I read this thread, and find out that it wasn't just my mediocre skills, it was a real problem. The megathron had big problems with it's cap, namely because the range of it's blasters forced it to fit expensive modules to compensate for it. Right off the bat I was down 25% of my max cap just for the mwd... the other ship that is known for using blasters gets a fantastic bonus for MWD. The Thorax. Ironically, it's Gallente as well. I also had to fit a webber to hold someone within that range, because it's so easy for someone to just move away. Add in a warp scrambler, and I'm down to one med slot, which I eagerly fit a cap charger. I would have preferred to fit a large cap injector, but I didn't have the pg or cpu to do it. So.. in order to boost the survivability of my ship, I had to take off my Nuetrons and stick Ions instead. Unfortunately, Ion blasters use up more cpu than Nuetrons (although less pg)... god, so many frustrations. I'm still trying to build another Apoc btw.
However, I love the Megathron. It is a beautiful ship, and if I can keep something close to me, I can rip it to shreds, but the only times I can actually do that are when I'm rat hunting and I'm sitting on top of a spawn, where I can web it right then and there. If I had to close 20km to a target, I'd be out of cap by the time I got there.
"Hey, glad you could make it."
"Thanks.. but I'm outta cap. Mind if I wait a few min, then we can start fighting?"
"Not a chance, sorry. Go buy a Flavor of the Month ship, ie an armageddon."
Give Megathrons a bonus to MWD, either an identical bonus to the Thorax, or less cap use per pulse. Leave the damage bonus of course.
Increase the Megathrons' overall cap, even by a little.
Increase the opt range of Blasters to fit the short range guns of other races. The only way to balance anything is to make it the same for everybody. No gun should be as versatile as the Megapulse laser, and there should never be such a huge difference between the races weapon types. All short range guns should be short range, get it? But even 5km is still TOO short.
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