chaosgrimm wrote:Large guns do not have "serious trouble" with hitting frigs once you get comfortable with the mission's rats. Large guns can destroy several standard frigates at once with a single rack cycle. Spider drones can cause occasional problems. There are also some missions where the frigs start under your guns, but the vast majority of frigates are easily destroyed in less then a full rack cycle. There is really no comparison.
I was going to let this one go with no comment but the more I thought about it the more I realized that was just not going to happen.
At first you tell us that your large guns do not have "serious trouble" hitting small fast targets.
Yet in the same paragraph you go on to tell us that you have trouble/cannot hit spider drones and frigates that "start under your guns".
So one has to wonder which of these contradictory statement is the truth?
The way I see this if you do not have serious trouble hitting targets then the spider drones cause no problems because you can hit them easily, and there is no such thing as a ship "getting under your guns".
If you cannot hit a class of ships because they are to fast or they get under your guns then you are having "serious trouble" trying to hit them.
Try cruise with the tech 2 fury they hit as hard as your guns.
For the small fast stuff switch to precision and they hit stuff with near large gun level damage but the increased explosion velocity and decreased explosion radius in effect make them track like small to medium turret weapons. So there is yet another of those advantages to the missile platforms. Not only can we tailor our damage to hit the resist holes (something that is not always possible with turrets) but we can tailor it to the specific needs to efficiently kill all classes of ships.
Garrett Osinov wrote:I guess you never used Machariel with autocannons...
As they say been there and done that.
And the Amarr laser BS, Gallente blaster ships, artillery ships and drones ships, even tried the Nightmare cause I was told it was the boss when it comes to level 4's. But in the end since I run missions in all 4 factions space against all of the NPC and I really do not like hauling multiple lvl 4 ships all over the EvE universe the extreme versatility of the missile platforms is hard to say no to.
So when a player asks about which ship is best and we do not know where they will be running mission, what type of ship they like to fly(turrets,drones, missiles) or whether they want to blitz or clear and salvage it is hard not to recommend the most versatile of them all the missile platforms.
So I will repeat myself if you like turret based ships then fly them and have fun.