the fact that these are T2 crystals and would degrade over is why ill say yes to this, although im not sure about the optimal range reduction, perhaps making a blance for better range and less damage so it isnt only usefull at short range so sniper fits can at least make some use of these.

if lasers ever do other damage types, hybrids need to be changed as well. and projectiles need a short range high damage kinetic ammo. and caldari need to get boosts to omni damage and scrap the kinetic damage bonuses.

in fact, **** it. one race, one line of ships that only have one weapon. it does one type of damage and there are no shields, armour and structure, only HP's.

the same way u can guarantee a fight against gal and caldari with thermal and kinetic?

and u mitigate a significant amount of, ill say potential, minmatar damage by tanking exp, kin.

ur assuming EM and Thermal are the worst damage types. A lot of ppl will say Kinetic is the worst damage type, and thats not even strictly true.

T2 bro

Since when can you mitigate minmatar damage by tanking explosive/kinetic?

The three most common types of minmatar ammunition:
Phased Plasma, EMP, and fusion, are Thermal, EM, and explosive.

Half of which (hail and quake) are almost completely useless.
Hence why people carry republic fleet EM/Therm ammo.

As for that comment about people setting their ships up to specifically counter the EM and Thermal damage that lasers deal... that's just being hyperbolic.
It is theoretically possible, yes (as it would be for all ship types minus Minmatar)... but almost all PvP ships fit omni-resistances because you almost NEVER encounter a a single racial type (and you would be stupid to assume you would).

agreed, lets balance all pvp around that

It's been a while since I've been in nullsec blobs, but last time I was down there it was always one doctrine against another: http://eve.battleclinic.com/killboard/engagement.php?id=16942427#involvedPilots

Dunno how much that's changed but an army of drakes against an army of amarr battleships will end up with both sides fitting specific hardeners only.

Also, let's not forget highsec duels, where I can fit specific hardeners and then only pick fights with ships that have bonuses to those same damage types.

But why should I have to do something so unusual, when that could be built into the ammunition, penalty and all?

One of the factors that balances the advantages of lasers is the fact that they can only deal a set two damage types. Same goes for hybrids and somewhat less so for missiles.
What you propose dramatically favors lasers over any other weapon system in the game without doing anything to compensate the rest and further reduces diversity in the game by making everything the same.

No, I don't like the idea.

Wrong.

Blasters and AC's both utterly destroy laser tracking; ie. brawling with lasers will lose to AC's or blasters all else being equal.

Lasers are only superior to other weapon systems at range, they lose every other category.

Wrong.

Blasters and AC's both utterly destroy laser tracking; ie. brawling with lasers will lose to AC's or blasters all else being equal.

Lasers are only superior to other weapon systems at range, they lose every other category.

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