because it's just better with heavies. and it's a support ship not a brawler. so not classified with the other khanid style ships.


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this thread is becoming a loop... Norris and I have basically discussed everything everyone is bringing up now earlier in the thread and more so. so please go back and read the last page, it's not a dozen page thread like some others. so it's not that difficult to not repeat the same stuff we've talked about already.

the non-cap using, extra powergrid t1 monster tanks with spitwad dps are my only hang up with this idea. just doesn't seem like ships worth creating to benefit a few. and to avoid repeating myself anymore

JUST READ THE PREVIOUS PAGE... save Norris the constant explaining of the same thing over and over.

While they would be unbonused and not as damaging as lasers there are plenty of reasons that people would fit them, first off they are capless weapons (Same as ACs now) meaning that an active tanking ship will have much more capacitor to deal with regenerating armor another alternative is that a pilot may want to fit more capacitor warfare mods and so rather than needing raw DPS they would need the capless alternative to allow more drainage to occur and then peck the enemy to death while controlling and shutting them down. Missiles also use less grid than lasers allowing for more tanking modules to be fit including larger and oversized plates. It would make the ships flexible and able to be tailored to the pilots combat preferences, it also makes it hard for the enemy to judge what they are getting themselves into before making contact with the enemy on grid. Cookie Cutters are boring and by giving pilots may options and giving the ship the ability to take on different roles of combat is interesting. They should not be given a bonus to missiles in any way, the pilot can choose High DPS Laser Boat or Massive Armor Missile Boat.

I agree that the inquisitor is screwed up because of the tier system but I also think it's the best frigate to be turned into a khanid style T1 frigate since it already use missiles, all it really need is an armor res bonus to be the frigate version of a HAM maller and HAM prophecy.

I have a wet dream. My wet dream is for a Khanid Fleet Abaddon. This would be a faction Abaddon that must be missioned for and purchased with Khanid LP. The Khanid Fleet Abaddon would have 8 Launcher hardpoints. It's bonuses would be 5% resists per level and 5% RoF for Torps. Everything else would be the same as the regular Abaddon, maybe reduce the drones to 50m3.

This is my wet dream.

A lot of crap.

Hypothetical Khanid torpedo BS modeled after the Abaddon:

Slot layout
8x highs, 7x launchers (8x launchers would be too much I think).
4x med slots
7x low slots

Bonuses
5% damage torp damage per level, 5% armor resists per level.

1036 EFT 'All V' dps with navy torps and 3x BCU II. 20 km torp range. A Raven with a similar fit does 948 dps at 30 km.

It's basically a torpedo megathron with the quirks that come with torpedoes instead of blasters. As such it would need pretty good acceleration and speed to be effective, but not require as much cap or pg as an Abaddon. A niche ship for sure, but we don't have any armor tanking torpedo boats in EVE so why not?

Typhoons armor tank and have that same slot layout with 6.66 effective launchers... Anyways, way off topic people. You are all talking about navy faction ships while I was trying to address problems in the existing tech 1 Amarr line up and the way that there is no real stepping stones for younger players trying to get into Khanid tech 2 ships. Yes I did bring up the idea of altering the tech 1 Abaddon to fit the changes made with the other lesser classes but I did put a big maybe next to it. I don't think that torpedoes on an Abaddon with a 20km range and the speed of a hobbled horse would hurt much especially when someone could fit pulse weapons to do the same amount of dps in that range but also be able to switch to 40km or beyond in second. It is less effective launchers than the Raven and it is slow too.