Originally by: DigitalCommunist

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Edited by: DigitalCommunist on 04/03/2005 02:31:54
A 30% drop in optimal does not castrate the Zealot. Your damage output hasn't been reduced one bit, and you can still shatter most cruisers in under 10 seconds flat, you just have to put yourself at more risk getting closer. If you can't handle doing near-blaster damage within web range, don't use multifrequency. By your own admission, the Heavy Pulse is a close range gun, equivalent to a Neutron (yeah, lets see you fit even 4 Neutrons on anything, let alone 5). 14km optimal with -50% ammo is not close range, which is what you currently get. The neutron or 425mm with close range ammo is under 5km optimal.

14km is just short of what you get on 250mm or 650mm with close range ammo. Your own words state that its a close range gun, yet the ranges they are effective at compare with long range artillery and railguns? Not such a big deal? It is when your damage ridiculously outclasses those guns, and the tracking is at a whole new level.

You have the following choices:

1. Stop flying a Zealot if its so castrated, switch over to the next ship you deem "Flavor of the Month".
2. Stop fitting Multifrequency crystals if you don't want to get in web range.
3. Get into web range to maintain damage output.

You're all spoiled and your opinions are skewed, you use pointless comparisons to make it seem like the current situation is balanced. Its not, small medium and pulse lasers have totally overthrown the use of beams simply due to the fact that they have range. You're lucky you had it like this for so long, and you're lucky its just 30%.

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