I like this concept.
And yes, it does make Minmatarr very strong. Dictating range on Gallente, so they can't shoot. Out fly the Amarr turrets, so they can't hit and outrun Caldari missiles. Unless they make a mistake :).

Minmatar GÇô Fast tracking, medium range, low dps
Gallente GÇô High DPS, ok tracking, short range

No. Short range must be accompanied by fast tracking, or the damage is irrelevant. At medium range, fast tracking becomes a damage bonus. For the record, autocannons do not need better tracking GÇö they are already better than blasters.

You're also missing a huge factor here: short range/high-damage (forgetting the tracking problems) is supremely worthless if you cannot get into a position to deliver that damage. This means that you can't just look at the guns GÇö you have to look at the platforms. Since the Gallente boats are markedly slower than the Minmatar ones, that short range is crippling, and the hulls most definitely need to be a part of the fix.

What you're describing here is basically:

Minmatar GÇö medium range, medium damage, ability to dictate the fight.
Gallente GÇö low range, low damage, no ability to dictate the fight.

GǪor, as you hint at, the same situation we have right now. Making the current situation Gǣmore the sameGǥ only means that blasters become more bad.

If you don't want to fiddle with the ships, you more or less have to completely reverse blasters and ACs: blasters get the range, ACs get the damage. If you don't want to fiddle with the guns, you have to completely reverse the hulls: blaster boats get speed and agility, AC boats getGǪ wellGǪ nothing. If you don't want to do any reversals at all, you have to buff blaster damage and tracking through the stratosphere.

What i want is minny guns that do way less dps but have awesome tracking so they can even shoot ships smaller then themselves.

I want gallente to have a lot more dps and maybe a bit more tracking, they shouldnt have any trouble with same sized ships (even minny) orbiting outside web range.

Yes the minny could probably always win a 1v1

That's a bad idea for a different reason GÇö smaller ships are supposed to be hard to hit (so they're still useful when mixed with larger ships). No, the balance needs to be done within the same class, and not try to also create role differences between the guns. We already have the ability to fit different guns and/or use drones if we want to widen the range of viable targets GÇö that is sufficient..

The problem is that they have trouble with ships orbiting inside web range due to how short range magnifies angular velocity, so they need a lot more tracking to do their job.

GǪand that's why it's not good balance

This is something minmatar already got

I don't want them to be super awesome at it but it should be the guns to use if you want to do it efficiently.

Well if we are going to balance this game around 1v1 all ships got to be way too similar, if you want to beat minny ships bring a counter ship with specific bonuses for it.

I think you're overestimating how much better than blasters ACs track. It is not that much.

Just one problem: there is no counter to a gun that does the same amount of damage at longer ranges with better tracking, fitted to a ship that dictates the fight. Solving that does not entail making all ships similar GÇö it entails spreading out the advantages on different ships. Instead of one ship having it all, you might instead have one that is fast/short-range; one that is long-range/poor-tracking; one that is universally applicable, but with GÇ£mehGÇ¥ performance; etc. etc. etc

I think that longer range guns need to be more reliant on the ammo they shoot and have lower base damage overall.

and that short range weapons are more reliant on the module itself.

Then have newer attributes to the ammo that effect rate of fire or tracking, so a multifrequency would require a longer cool between fires or that a antimatter makes the gun heavier to turn. that sort of idea.

It would make ammo a sensible and logical thing to look over again.

Todays long range turrets are horribly unbalanced and needs fixing. I made these graphs to explain its problem and a solution that I liked.
Any arguments for changes are welcome, I'm not sure this is the best way to do it.

Long range turret graphs

Why do artilery all of a sudden have the best tracking?

The last thing we need is some roleplay logic behind the hybrid change.

Its called flavoring, make the weapons all to homegenous and you might as well call them all autocannons.

Minmatar is faster with a littlebit more range but got quite a bit lower dps.

Gallente is slow with massive short range dps meaning that if the enemy comes within web range hes dead.

GǪand that's the problem right there: more range needs to be combined with less speed, otherwise the shorter range never comes into play and might as well have infinite damage.
That would be true if it weren't for how decreasing range also screws over tracking, and that is currently not compensated forGǪ

And, as the above shows, you can't balance the guns without taking into account the gun platforms (and vice versa).

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Yes you can, remember minmatar sacrificed tank and sig radius to get that speed.

If you can track him when webbed

The problem with this is that I don't want gallente to be fast, i want them to be heavy armor tankers and their turrets should be balanced around that.

Not really, noGǪ
A little less tank, maybe, depending on the ship (but it's not universally true), and they did not sacrifice sig radius GÇö quite the opposite.

GǪwhich you can't. That's the whole problem: the nano nerf changed the dynamics of that situation without altering the guns to match. Moreover, even if it were true, you still have to keep him in web range, which you won't since he's faster.

That means giving them the range the MInmatar currently enjoy and make the Minnys the short-range race to balance out their speed.

Slow GåÆ long range.
Fast GåÆ short range.

When I said they sacrifice sig radius i mean they get a bigger one by fitting shield extenders and shield rigs which is bad for them, it makes them easier to track.

Well we are talking about how to fix turrets, not how they work today.

Minmatar is supposed to be the fast moving skirmish style race, they need both tracking and some range to do this task.

Amarr is the slow long range race, minmatar fast short range and gallente needs to have something of its own and what they always had is high tank, short range, a little more speed then amarr and awesome dps.

Minmatar is supposed to be the fast moving skirmish style race, they need both tracking and some range to do this task.
Amarr is the slow long range race, minmatar fast short range and gallente needs to have something of its own and what they always had is high tank, short range, a little more speed then amarr and awesome dps.
To preform this task they need better optimal and worse falloff then minny which makes them the best campers, structure hitters and will obliterate any fleet they warp in on close range to.

Its called flavoring, make the weapons all to homegenous and you might as well call them all autocannons.