Needs to stay as is. Cargo bay balances. Laser boats have my room for cap charges. No lasers fill that space with ammo instead.

I was just wondering, in my Maelstrom I actually hit issues because of my 8 guns constantly firing consuming so much ammo. In very prolonged missions I can actually run dry of one of my ammunition types.

Maybe its just a Minmatar thing, since we like to throw lead at stuff until it dies.

I was thinking more pvp situations. I can see the issue in long missions but no way to improve without effecting the pvp side. I would think if you go thru a whole cargo of ammo in one mission you are doing something wrong anyway.

As a note, here's the math for my ship:

8 guns
12,500 bullets to fill my cargo hold to full
Factoring in multiple ammunition types (2-3 types)

That's if I had zero room for looting at all. If I were to save, say, half my cargo space, we're talking 2,000 bullets of any given type at any time.

Maybe its just the Maelstrom that has the issue.

Go go math magic!

A 800mm Repeating Artillery II holds 120 bullets and fires at 3.25 seconds per shot (max skills, 3 Gyrostabilizer IIs). Therefore, it takes 390 seconds, or 6.5 minutes to empty your guns. Make that 6.666 minutes to account for reload time.

All 8 guns together hold a total of 960 bullets. If you were to only use half your cargo (6250 bullets' worth), you still have 6.5 reloads of ammo to go through. That means 43.4 minutes of continuous fire/reload.

I'm not a big mission runner myself (only ever run two level 4 missions in a badly fit T1-Drake before going and doing something else), but 43 minutes seems like an awfully long time to be running a single mission, especially for a Maelstrom.

Side note: why are you bringing multiple ammo types? Why not just bring the one most suited to the NPCs you'll encounter in the mission?

Holds not big enough for lots of each type of ammo for my mach, and I got tired of having to dock to change ammo.. So, now I just throw a bunch of each type of ammo that I use in my PVE support orca.... fleet assist links AND mobile ammo hold. Nice place to dump the loot my noctis alts picks up as well.

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I'm not a big mission runner myself (only ever run two level 4 missions in a badly fit T1-Drake before going and doing something else), but 43 minutes seems like an awfully long time to be running a single mission, especially for a Maelstrom.

Side note: why are you bringing multiple ammo types? Why not just bring the one most suited to the NPCs you'll encounter in the mission?

Why more than one ammo type? Once having farmed all my AE's, I'd be travel around between 6-8 systems seeing what missions I'd get offered. Pull several off 3 or 4 alts, then go run them. Wouldn't want to have to reload between running different missions against different rats.