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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:01:00 -
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Edited by: Severa Crest on 27/07/2006 12:04:15 TBH this is exactly what I was expecting for the Mael, and on first inspection it seems to suck.
Dont really give a hoot about the others.
Minmatar ships are supposed to be fast, agile, and flexible. This pile of steaming turd is none of the above.
Edit - 3 locked targets??!! and we dont even have our usual racial blessing of the best scan res...
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:08:00 -
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Originally by: Jim McGregor
Originally by: Liisa Well, if those stats stand, I forsee the Maelstorm becoming the new pirate ship of choice because of the 21000 pwg.
21000 pwg with engineering 5 that gives you 26250 pwg.
Now, t2 1400s have a base fitting req. of 3575 pwg. With AWG at level 5 this is reduced by 10% to 3217,5 pwg. Eight of these bad boys on a ship means you need 25740 pwg. With AWG at level 4, eight t2 1400s need 26312 pwg.
So either Mr. Sniper need no mod for his pwg, or he needs only 1. This leaves the nice 6 mids and 5 or 6 lows for tracking comps, sensor boosters, gyros and stabs. It might even make for a nice fleet ship, though that it something that I cannot really answer.
Abaddon has more powergrid.
Indeed abaddon with 8 tachs 4tw
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:41:00 -
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Originally by: Jim McGregor Edited by: Jim McGregor on 27/07/2006 12:35:32
The Hyperion has a speed of 130 currently, and 100.000.000 mass. So the Tempest is still a little faster with speed 140 and a mass of 102.500.000. However, seeing as the Hyperion has one extra medium slot over the Tempest, it will be very scary.
I never thought I would see a fast and light blaster ship with more medium slots than a autocannon minmatar one. Dont really see the balance here...
And yes, im comparing with a tier 2 ship here. The Maelstrom with its 115 base speed will probably never become successful as a autocannon platform.
Indeed, the Hyperion has the best damage + it has the speed and agility to really bring it.
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:42:00 -
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Originally by: Galomier The speed on the hyperion is laughable. An extra 5 m/s over the megathron, wow... wear a seat belt grandma... The hyperion is supposed to be much faster not marginally faster. I have a bad taste in my mouth of how this ship is going to turn out, with it being slower than a tempest. My feeling would be to bump it up to 140 or idealy 150, so it can serve its role as "get in and duke it out heavy hitter", not the "limp half way across the field to the future spot where your wreckage will lay."
Mega is already slower than tempest and it pwns it (albeit with broken t2 ammo)
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:43:00 -
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Originally by: Laboratus
Originally by: Jim McGregor
Originally by: Laboratus
I was rather hoping it would be around 10% faster and 10% lighter than other close range ships. Oh, well. We all gotto learn to live with disapointments.
Not sure why you are disappointed... the Hyperion will beat a AC tempest easily.
From what the devs said before, I got the impression the ship would be very fast and very light. So that it would be an agile blaster boat.
Can you really see balance in having all that damage and being able to easily and quickly get into range?
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:46:00 -
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Edited by: Severa Crest on 27/07/2006 12:47:26 My Mael setup..
8 x 800 autos
mwd, various ew, 2 x cap booster
3 x LAR, 3 x hards
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8 x 800 autos
mwd, xl sb, 2 x inv, web, scram
2 x gyro, 4 x nano
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:51:00 -
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Originally by: Laboratus
Originally by: Severa Crest
Can you really see balance in having all that damage and being able to easily and quickly get into range?
The blaster boats suffer greatly from low falloff ranges, and as such it is much more crucial to get that agility than with autocannons. Thus, maybe. Oh well.
That is the risk of using blasters though. You could fit rails for much better range, but you tradeoff the damage output. With the advent of the Hyperion, my ships wont be able to outdamage OR outrun your ship, hence you pwn me every time.
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Severa Crest
Railgun Voodoo II
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Posted - 2006.07.27 12:52:00 -
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Originally by: SengH Edited by: SengH on 27/07/2006 12:49:37
Originally by: Severa Crest Edited by: Severa Crest on 27/07/2006 12:47:26 My Mael setup..
8 x 800 autos
mwd, various ew, 2 x cap booster
3 x LAR, 3 x hards
or
8 x 800 autos
mwd, xl sb, 2 x inv, web, scram
2 x gyro, 4 x nano
Run into Nosdomi or pretty much every other closeranged ship with nos = wallet blinking!
Yep it doesnt do anything better than the tempest, but I'm guessing we're gonna have to work with this lump.
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