The obsesive longe range on caldari boats lets you use anti-matter all the time (thus making it the best time), and you should have the lows for tracking/damage mods.

Maelstrom - ROF + shield boosting
Hyperion - Damage + armor rep
Abaddon - Damage + resists
Rokh - Range + resists, wtf?

Rails have good range, give rokh and ferox damage instead of range bonus!

Hyperion has a hybrid damage bonus and 8 high slots. So it would have the same.

yep that would make them just too similar
increase resist bonus to 10% or give other things to caldari like +1 mid cpu and pg

I know this has no relevance to CCP, but Minmatar Artillery is a joke compared with rails in a technology sense. Why is it that the race that still uses present day tech for their weapons superior in so many respects to a currently theoretical weapon like a railgun that fires even more spectacular antimatter shells?

I believe antimatter payloads fired at a a sizeable percentage of the speed of light would leave nuclear and fusion weapons in the dust, damage wise, from the science point of view. Infact lasers would probably be pretty paltry by comparison.

(Directed at the OP, not Naomi)
With rails it can lob a good 600 DPS out to 70km range

I see megapulse can do 700 DPS or so at 60km but need 3 tracking comps to do so.

Can't be bothered showing every pirate and suicide ganker what I fly.

1. No evidence = no argument.
2. You're implying there that it's pimp fitted, and thus also irrelevant here.

And like I said, I know it's perfectly possible to get that kind of DPS/range with tachyons - but what I also know is they're absurdly hard to fit and by using them at all you've gimped yourself in at least one way.

Megapulse + Scorch is a base range of 50 + 1 Tracking Enhancer and you have ~60km, as far as 'three tracking computers' goes.
... No, Scorch base range is 45k, add a TE and you have 52, then you need to throw TCs on.
And that TE has taken up another low slot, so either tank or DPS has suffered.
Drop a heat sink and you're down to 650 DPS, drop a tank mod and you lose anything up to 20k EHP.

You don't include falloff in range?

You're trying to persuade -me- that Rokh is comparable with Abaddon.

but mine does an easy 800dps at 60km with a respectable permatank.

I guess your fit includes damage rigs and the recent 10% buff to get 600dps?

You don't include falloff in range?

The entire point is moot as weapons aren't balanced around PVE.

Why not? I think I was complaining that range is objectively less useful than damage when a weapon inherently has sufficent range to begin with. Show me where i've subdivided into a single aspect of the game?

The Rokh and the Raven are both typically used for long range damage. Wheres Caldari's short-medium range damage that is competitive?

yep that would make them just too similar
increase resist bonus to 10% or give other things to caldari like +1 mid cpu and pg

I know this has no relevance to CCP, but Minmatar Artillery is a joke compared with rails in a technology sense. Why is it that the race that still uses present day tech for their weapons superior in so many respects to a currently theoretical weapon like a railgun that fires even more spectacular antimatter shells?

I believe antimatter payloads fired at a a sizeable percentage of the speed of light would leave nuclear and fusion weapons in the dust, damage wise, from the science point of view. Infact lasers would probably be pretty paltry by comparison.

Oh Naomi, don't you realize how stupid this makes you look?