Well I guess that is it. Come on Harbinger. Come out back . Time to put you out of your misery.

Oh, I see.
I was stupid then, sorry.
If 800mm RRT + biggest guns + Neut is not possible, then we have indeed a problem with the Harbi that CCP should address.

Well, not loving the shield nerf, but I suppose anyone who flies one will say the same:)

One suggestion though, how about reducing it to 6 launchers but giving it a +10% per level damage boost, with associated fitting changes of course. Much the same as you did the Harbinger.

This would be a dps nerf to anyone with lvl 1-3 in BC. DPS at BC 4 is exactly the same, and it is a small (about 3%) boost at BC5.

That would allow a utility high slot for practical use. Letting a ship often used for PvE have space for a tractor beam is insanely convenient, or a Scan Probe launcher when using one in a wormhole!! Not to mention making a gang link more viable in a ship with a bonus to them.

This is wrong and you should be ashamed.
Heavy pulse are the largest mid sized close range guns, Heavy Beams are the largest long range guns. Apples and Oranges.

You want to use BEAMS on a ship that already suffers crippling fitting issues?

I think you need to re-evaluate your approach. Stop pigeon-holing ships. Let Gallente ships continue to choose between armor and shield tanks. Stop stripping away utility highslots. Stop nerfing mobility on already-clumsy ships. Either make all the BCs fun to fly like the Cane, Drake, and Harb are, or just can the whole class. Noone is going to fly BCs if they all perform like slightly-improved Prophecies.

The Drake almost never used that slot before anyway so again is it really even noticeable.

A Drake will lose its utility high which sucks if you like doing C1/C2 sites for melted nanoribbons... but at least we have salvage drones now.

If you just want Amarr bonuses on a Gallente ship then I wouldn't hold my breath if I were you, there might be a case for not having BOTH Gallente BCs with an active rep bonus but it will blow my mind if you get a resist or armor hp bonus instead.

If only Grath knew what he was talking about.

Examples of split weapon ships are the Typhoon and Naglfar, both of which are designs that I consider obsolete and worth changing when we get to them.

The Nag sucks, everybody who's ever flown a cap of any kind knows it, as its been a hard fought fact for about ....hmm...ok ever since it was released.

[Brutix and Myrm] having [armor repair bonus] might be a bad idea, but it's not "obsolete" as it stands now, at least for PvE...

Actually, I've noticed one thing I'm not so sure about.
The sig. radius of the Gallente ships are 22% larger than the Minmatar ones, making them only 15m smaller than a Typhoon.
Is that not just a tad excessive?

My first reaction: why would you want that?
AAAAH.
So you want 8 hardpoint split weapon system twin-bonused WITH a tank bonus.
Aren't we slightly a bit greedy?

The active rep bonus needs to be increased to 10% per level on all ships regardless if improvements to the modules themselves happen. W/o such improvements to the bonus the imbalance between resistance and active bonuses will be no different and this discussion will simply continue for another 5+ years...

Ravens with lasers, Torp Domi's and AutoGeddons.

I'm starting to agree with those people who say "odd" drone bandwidth sizes are weird an impractical.