For all those that are upset about the heavy missile nerf - we need one of the spreadsheet jockeys here to throw up a graph of DPS vs range for all four battlecruisers. Compare max skilled Drake with HML, navy missiles to a Ferox, Brutix, Hurricane, and harbinger (also with max skills) using the longest-range ammo. Ignore modules and rigs for now - we've seen both tank and gank varieties of all of the above.

Comparing raw DPS and range both before and after the changes, it becomes quite apparent why HML's are being brought in line with other weapons systems. They should provide consistent damage, certainly, but do not need to win both in maximum DPS within optimal AND a base range that exceeds the falloff of most of the long-range turrets.

It's hard to see with numbers on a page - but if you look at the damage curves, they tell the whole story.

Of course it doesn't.

I'm simply asking why missiles should provide consistent DPS that is higher than all other long range turrets in their optimals and can project that DPS longer than those same turrets' falloff distance. What is wrong with having advantages to choosing other weapons platforms besides HML's ? Why not have pro's and con's for each instead of HML being better in every single way?

The makers of Ben and Jerry Ice Cream became aware that their Chunky Monkey brand of Ice Cream was outselling all their other flavours. It seemed everybody wanted to eat Chunky Monkey because it was so delicious. But Ben and Jerry wanted their other brands to be just as good as Chunky Monkey so that everybody could enjoy them. So Ben and Jerry went and took a **** in their next batch of Chunky Monkey. When asked why would they do this, they answered:

"It was just so much easier to make Chunky Monkey taste like **** than to make the other flavours taste better."

CCP went to the Ben and Jerry School of Product Design.

It is math that take into account gun signature resolution, target signature radius, missile explosion radius and -velocity, moving targets and effective tracking, but excluding transversal velocity because that would permit manipulating numbers in HMLs disfavour. You should try it sometime.

I never guaranteed that it is going to happen. I just said that, in order to complete their re-balancing sweep, they will have to visit T2/T3 cruisers and CS. T3s are too strong and versatile, they have in a lot of cases swept T2s under the rug entirely, and some of them have even managed to replace CS (EHP and links are better).

Feel free to look at the top 3 ships flown in EVE. I can pretty well gurantee it will almost always be drake>hurricane and then most likely tengu. These ships are overpowered and have been for quite a while now. Cries for a drake nerf have been heard for a very long time, and its about time CCP started to looking at why a tier 2 bc hull should be able to project 400 dps out to 80km with a 100k ehp tank for under 50mil.