Acidictadpole
Caldari
Dirty Deeds Corp.
Axiom Empire
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Posted - 2007.06.21 10:00:00 -
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 Originally by: Captain Schmungles
The reason why you see so many people touting guns over missiles for PvP is that guns do instant damage and there is no way to shoot one's bullets down. Also, the race of your character does not determine the type of ships that you can fly. I flew Caldari missile boats for months, bought a Raven, absolutely hated it, and switched to Minmatar. If you want to become involved in fleet warfare in 0.0 then the whole missiles vs. guns debate sort of becomes moot, and the extra damage that missiles can do is always welcome in fleet warfare.
I have to mildly disagree with the statements about how it becomes moot. Most of the time while piloting my raven in pvp I hardly get my cruise missiles to the target before it dies, i may have about 4 volleys in flight too. Thing is that usually you need to accept the fact that you wont be the side deciding range in a fight (there are time you will be, but I usually fit up for the harder situation) and while tracking becomes a little bit of an issue, if standing still a artillery/hybrid ship will do the same damage to someone close as they are far away ( minus falloff reduction etc etc ). While a missile ship will always do the same damage, if your target is 100km away your cruise missiles will take 25-30 seconds to reach the target, against another bs (for easish, let's compare to a tempest) they will have 6 x 300+ damage every 7ish seconds. that's 1800+ damage every 7 seconds, which allows ~7200 (took 28 seconds) damage from that ONE tempest before your first wave of missiles even hit. And from then on you're damage is about on par with the tempest. At that range you will most likely not get a single hit in if you go after primaries (like you should).
At lesser ranges it becomes less of an issue, but the problem is still there.
I think guns are the way to go in fleet warfare, missiles should be in pve and possibly against faster ships.. (a assault launcher caracal with precisions can melt any frigate.)
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