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Posted - 2005.03.18 17:41:00 -
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Ive concluded,through sheer common sense,that this is how CCP worked out the way the ships and weapons worked for each of the 4 races from the ground up.
Amaar - Best tanking and cap,can rapidly switch crystals,no ammo usage,but lasers supposed to take very high cap in order to force amaar pilots to carefully balance tanking and weapon fire.Unfornately this failed as it is pathetically easy to run setups where you can leave a armor rep running forever with lasers going full blast.I get the feeling the ridiculoous damage of lasers was supposed to be balanced by the fact that they couldnt be run for anything longer than a split nano-second,and certiantly not with full scale tank going.
Caldari - longest range in the game,second best tanking.Slight problem : long range is near useless in eve.Other than that overpowered missles currently make them the best mission running ship,simply because you just use missles for everything,instead of fitting a web and struggling wtih intys.
Gallente - Best damage and masses of drones.A mix of short range,MWDing ships fitted with heavy drones and blasters,with railgun platforms to assist.Unfornately most of their ships are the former,leaving them without the requisite long range fire support they need so desparetely.Armor supposed to better than shield,which makes you wonder why they have best shield recharge rate ingame.
Minmatar - fast,maneuverable ships,ideally suitted for minmatar fast raiding style and hard hitting power of projectiles that do the highest damage per shot(with gallente having best DOT).Failed becasue an extra 20m/s compared to a non-minatar ship does jack all in actual combat,autocanons eat ammo so fast you spend 90% of your time actually reloading them,and howitzers have horrible tracking.At least they have been improved now.Shield supposed to be better than armor,though you will regularly see some minmatar ships having more armor than shield,and mid/low slots suggest devs couldnt decide whether to make all minmatar ships armor or shield tank.
Now that that is cleared up,can we refrain from saying ridiculous things like "minmatar are supposed to have ****ty tanking and damage in exchange for fast speed"?
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