Now, on to that issue of rails having way too much wasted range.

And after that hybrid will be overpowered. Ok for a boost, but don't joke.
BTW i like the concept to have 2 close range ammo whith different kin/therm %, very nice idea.

Spoken like someone who's got no experience flying a hybrid platform.

http://www.eveonline.com/ingameboard.asp?a=topic&threadID=1431186&page=1#1

My assembly hall post before the old forum got shut down had about 70% thumbs up.

The idea is to make blasters shotgun damage. Meaning the closer you are, the more raw dps they do. This would mean medium do 20-30% more damage when within 50% of optimal. The same dps when outside of optimal.

And then , instead of falloff decreasing the chance to hit, it would only reduce the damage blasters deal. Because shotgun blasters as we all know move in a cone. So the closer you are the more hits you take, the farther away you are the less hits you take. However the cool part of this plan is optimal range is based on the size of the target. If your trying to shoot a target with larger sig radius than your guns, than their effective optimal range is greater. Since the cone of damage gets larger as it travels, damage is directly linked to how far away the target is, and how big it is.



Think the way they balance shotguns for any fps title.



If your in a frigate trying to hit a battleship, then hell why not, you now have 12-15km range on your small blasters. Which allows you to tackle and still put on some dps.

but that isn't how the missile formula works. My idea is to make blasters a thrid weapon system, finally adding more than 2 weapon types to eve.

CCP Tallest:

The tracking increase resolves some of the issues that the web nerf uncovered. Compared to the original 90% webs, a 60% web with a 20% increase in tracking is back to around the effectiveness of an 80% web with no tracking bonus, so that's about where it should be.

This still doesn't fix the lack of DPS. The 5-10% more peak DPS that blasters have over lasers and ACs doesn't make up for the incredibly short range. The answer isn't to increase the range but to drastically increase the damage. Blasters need to deal massive *massive* DPS at very short range.

I used blasters pretty much exclusively for a little under five years. When the web nerf showed up, I put away my Hyperion, never to be used again. Give blasters a role, a very narrow niche, where they excel far beyond anything else. Right now there's just "too much of the same". You're creating the gaming equivalent of oatmeal.

As has been said before- The posted changes could have been knocked out in an afternoon by a single dev. So far this expansion feels very last minute and thrown together.

This is a good idea in principle but unless you also balance Minmatar with Gallente in general, it actually works out as another Minmatar boost. This is because the ships that are more powerful today will benefit more from such a change, making it a relative boost to the Sleipnir over the Astarte, the Cyclone over the Brutix, and in particular, the Maelstrom over the Hyperion. Not clever.

I am extremely skeptical of adding tracking over damage to blasters. It was never poor tracking that drove me to using Projectiles and then Lasers. It was damage. Blasters just don't have it. They also don't have range - so even should they have reasonable damage they just don't have the range for me to use it. I understand that the ship changes are intended to help alleviate that, but I remain skeptical.

I don't promise to ***** this thread - send me a mail if you want me to expound on this.

-Liang