I posted my thoughts in response to the hybrid rebalance in a different thread, so please refer to that: https://forums.eveonline.com/default.aspx?g=posts&m=290102#post290102
- Null ammo needs +50% for both optimal and falloff. Barrage gives a 50% falloff bonus, and Scorch gives 50% extra to range. Blasters depend on both range and falloff, so Null ought to give a 50% bonus for both, to help truly address the range issues of blasters.
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well back in the day before cap ships ccp introduced tachions to be extra large weapons for lazors...
this was also around the time when you could fire torps from rocket launchers and have deul mwd ravens...

time has changed but his perceptions about comparing the largest of the 3 weapons types has not...

they will argue till kingdom comes that you can only compare 425 to mega beams...

personally all they need to do to bring tachions in line is reduce their fittings... then we should be fine in comparring them...

If you look at tachions and 1400's they are balanced but 425's are not...

its 2011 here people not 2005....

What if there was a buff to Energized Regenerative Membranes, perhaps remove stacking penalties making them nearly (but not quite) as effective as plates? Does anyone use regenerative membranes anyway? As it is, you'd need 14k raw armor HP for a T2 regenerative membrane to be as effective as even an 800mm plate, which you won't see in anything smaller than a capital. In fact, the most raw HP gallente BS (hyperion) you'd see the equivalent of a 400mm plate. Even if stacking penalties were removed, it would take 3 regeneratives would add the raw HP of 1 1600mm plate on a hyperion. So, what if Gallente active repair ships were given bonuses to using regenerative plates instead?

Just playing with numbers, maybe the fix to the gallente armor/close range conundrum is in the armor modules?

upgrade drone AI from "amoeba" to "insect" first.

Minmatar ships outperform blasters in their natural habitat,

Think on this for a moment. If you total up all the crap PVP platforms in the game... you are looking at about 1/3 of all ships being downright useless. At least another 1/3 are situational. Thats 2/3s of the ships available to fly that are suboptimal or downright deathtraps.

ok, CCP, you still have not fixed the fact that all the ships with armor tanking bonuces cannot usethe bonus you gave them, because they cannot fit a full rack of guns, reppers, MWD, and boosters, unless you are fitting electron blaster on them (which is pathertic).
So atm hyperion and britux cannot be fitted with 2 reps and 2 boosters and a rack of ions even with maximum fitting skills, meaning they cannot possibly under any circumstance utilize their bonuces. It just is impossible. Thus the ship is not for-filling it's purpose, it is virtually unusable. That is without even looking into effectiveness of their fitting or active vs buffer tank or getting in range or anything like that . They simply cannot be fit. That is stupid. Change their bounces, or change their fitting. Maelstrom and Abbadon have enourmous amounts of fitting room, especially in powergrid, whereas gallente are restricted on powergid insanely, and it's not like we hae spare cpu either.

Secondly, remove speed penalty from active armor tank rigs. I liked flying active armour ships, but atm it is just silly. Leave penalty on trimarks, so buffertanks and amarr stay slow.

Thirdly pelase consider giving some gal ships a shield-tank. I seriously think it would massively improve the situation. Minmatar use two tanks, so can we.

most t1 platforms for the race cant tank nearly as well as the other three races

Believe me you can easily fit a nice Hyperion, however it's' obviously not designed to fit the biggest guns, mwd, 1-2 heavy cap boosters and dual reps without any fitting mods... It's called balance and all the Hyperion need is a boost to active tanking in general.

With the new changes I could upgrade my favorite Hyperion fit from using electrons to using Ions - And I never had trouble with electrons except at one time my targets slipped outside my optimal range...

Pinky

comparing a cynabal and vigilant is analogous to comparing a race car to a bear trap. they have two completely different applications.

not my problem

But as far as I was thinking, you can active rep, or you can MWD, I don't thinks gall ships can do both for very long. 600 cap every what, ten seconds if a pretty ferocious rate for MWD. even once you knock it down to 450/10 sec with skills your capacitor doesn't last too long and if you active rep while running MWD we need to send ya back to capsuleer boot camp.

I was asking if gallente ships can be rendered cap stable fitted MWDs, because if they CAN there is no sane reason to give them the suggested speed boost to MWD velocity. Addressing the idea of getting a blaster boat into engagement range, not asking for fitting advice. I've gotten a cap booster and am dickering around with how best to employ it..

if you are gallente, why on earth would you consider using something other than a drone boat for missions? infinite ammo...

i'm with the guy calling you out for derailment

What are you talking about? The Dominix can't fit a full rack of Tech 2 Ion blasters or 350mm railguns + a normal fit even with perfect skills, it's hybrid damage bonus is borderline useless, just like the Vexor, can't fit guns without gimping itself. It sorely needs bonuses that are useful 100% of the time instead of the turret bonus.

Drones are terrible for pvp

Seems a bit odd that the Proteus is only marginally faster than the Tengu, and significantly slower than the Legion (which in turn, is not much slower than a Loki). It's not like the Amarr are renowned for their mobility, is it?

The Proteus was overlooked in the Crucible blaster boat speed buff. It looks like it do with a serious boost. An immobile brick with massive ehp and a long point is a bit too limited a role for a T3 ship. Give it a serious speed buff.

so change them

Besides obvious advantages of Minmatar, they always had a stealth advantage of not being penalized by using highest damage ammo on autocannons. Hail was the only "fair" one tbh.

so now when you "fixed" it, why does void still have -25% AND -50% penalty on optimal and falloff?

Because Talest is either predudice and mostly uses Winmitar characters, or due to his holiday before the patch change freeze he missed the boat.
Corruption or incompitence, take your pick.