Wrayeth
Tabula Rasa Systems
The Star Fraction
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Posted - 2006.10.22 12:47:00 -
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Alrighty, having skimmed this thread, I have the following things to say:
1.) I don't normally make personal attacks, but you have absolutely no idea what you're talking about, Lofty. Go sell your Gallente characters on the sell forum, then buy Minmatar-only specced characters. Following that, spend a month flying Minmatar, including the tempest and typhoon, then come back and have a chat. Until then, you are not qualified to talk on the matter.
2.) Guys, quit bashing on Tuxford. The more grief you give him (as opposed to reasoned, intelligent discourse), the less likely he is to want to help us. I'm just as worried about projectiles in general and their crap DPS post-rigs, but I try to avoid personal attacks.
3.) Everything is relative. While Minmatar DPS may look workable at first glance, you have to realize that the more tanking gets increased, the less the relative effectiveness of all the weapons becomes. The change is more pronounced in low-DPS weapons than high-DPS. This means that even autocannons will be hurting once the tanking changes introduced by rigs come into play (hell, autocannons are sub-par now, at least on the battleship level).
4.) This has been said a thousand times, but the typhoon doesn't have enough grid or CPU to put on a proper fitting. Until this changes, the bonus that was changed from projectile optimal range to missile rate of fire will still not be enough.
5.) The tempest is neither powerful offensively nor defensively. It inflicts crap DPS, tanks like a wet paper sack (in comparison to other battleships), and the fact that it's faster than the others is nice, but not enough to counteract the first two. Versatility? Meh. A ship that isn't good at any one thing but is rather mediocre at all things is not versatile; true versatility comes when you can choose to do any one of a number of different things and do it well.
I would add a sixth about the sleipnir not being able to fit a web with a properly shield tanked autocannon setup, but I won't be able to use mine for about another two weeks, so I don't know how much that affects its actual PvP ability.
Anyway, those are my thoughts. Duct tape for the lose! 
-Wrayeth
"Look, pa! I just contributed absolutely nothing to this thread!"
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