If anything should have a "burst" mechanic with a long reload time, it should be remote reps.

can we get rapid cruise launchers? :)

With a 40 second reload the situation that will happen is: Do lots of damage and hope you kill the target, no then they completely rep them selves while you reload your missiles then you fire off them all again and hope you kill them.

The reload time needs to go down to 20 seconds.

The problem that I can thing of is for missioning. I use Rapid lights on my Caracal now for L2 missions, but there is no way that it will be practical to do this after the change I think.

By the way if RHMLs are still not receiving range or explosion bonuses I don't see barely anyone using them on battleships ever at this point.

Nope .. they just KILLED the cerberus, that was the most powerful solo HAC.

Its sustained dps is going down by 20%, not 9%.

Thats in addition to being unable to swap damage types, swap between t2 and faction ammo, reload during short warps, reload during jam cycles, and being unable to supply the on-demand dps that is the entire reason to include RLM ships in a small gang.

I'm not sure where the idea comes from that this plan came out of thin air in a few days has come from. Yes, it's late in the release cycle, but we spent weeks talking about how to deal with this problem and went through multiple review processes before anything showed up here, just like we do with all changes.

I also assure you that I am not ignoring negative feedback. There are absolutely a lot of people giving that in this thread. In the past when I've gotten negative feedback which is backed with well articulated arguments I don't hesitate to make changes (see industrial rebalance, electronic attack frig rebalance, battleship rebalance), but in this thread the majority of complaint is very disorganized and unhelpful, that's why I'm instead going with the positive feedback coming from the CSM, from our testing and from some posters here.

I believe in that case the "switch ammo" time of 10 seconds would only load the same amount of missiles as what was left in the launcher (in your example it would switch exactly 1 missile).

just reverse the HM nerf and it all wil be ok

I mean if this is actually the root of a lot of the problem then that's a different issue that we need to address. I'm not totally sure it is, but I want to take a hard look at HML before the point release and make sure we're okay with where we're at. If that needs a tweak then we should be doing that, not focusing on RLML as a solution to a HML problem.