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Debir Achen
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Posted - 2013.01.15 03:19:00 -
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Shinzhi Xadi wrote:Bienator II wrote:you still sell cap use bonus as second bonus for amar ships :(
It should be a role bonus that you can use a weapon, ship bonus gives specialization. Other ships receive tracking, range, whatever bonus and amarr ships like harb or oracle have a "yey you can actually fire this weapon" bonus. THIS. I hate this dang laser cap use bonus that amarr ships are mostly required to have just to function. No other race has to put up with a silly bonus like that. It would be like minmatar having a 'ammo loader bonus' that allows them to reload their guns. Because of this silly laser bonus, almost every amarr ship has 1 less useful bonus than any other race! I think there's some sleight of hand happening with the harby's bonuses.
Basically, the harby has 2 "standard" bonuses: a 5% bonus to gun damage and a second 5% bonus to gun damage, that stack additively ('cane's bonuses stack multiplicatively). Harby also has a cap-use pseudo-bonus. Effectively, it gets a double-strength bonus and a weak bonus rather than two normal bonuses.
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Debir Achen
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2013.01.24 02:46:00 -
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I have a niggling concern about the "1 less up-bonused weapon" model. All other things being equal, you've effectively given the ship a free slot. I assume this is compensated for by tighter fitting requirements, forcing you to spend low or rig slots for fitting mods?
(ie 6 launchers + co-processor vs 7 launchers is effectively moving a low slot to a high slot, not simply freeing up a high)
On lasers:
- Have you considered the effect of giving the harby a boost to capacitor recharge rather than a reduction in cap usage?
- Are lasers actually 25% more effective than (say) projectiles, before hull bonuses? The logic of a cap reduction is, to me, that lasers are 25% better than other weapons (ie with a full level 5 hull boost), but that this is balanced by crippling cap use. Thus, a cap use reduction is basically fitting magic to allow use of these "25% improved" weapons, and thus an implicit bonus. Does this actually follow in-game?
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Debir Achen
The Red Circle Inc.
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Posted - 2013.01.24 02:49:00 -
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Addendum: is it intended that the drake and cyclone don't get bonuses to Rapid Light Missile Launchers?
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