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Posted - 2007.10.09 09:01:00 -
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 Originally by: Merin Ryskin
Originally by: Kane Darkstar
Originally by: Neuromandis
Originally by: Zadren Radek
For the love of God devs......PLEASE don't build the Gallente covops BS from a Dominix....and a bloody pink one at that. A Hyperion looks more the part than that big fat whale. I was looking forward to flying one, but this puts me right off 
If you're put off nby appearance, what should we Caldari gunners say? We get zero ships to play with. EW frig, heavy dictor, marauder, blackops ALL of them missileboats.
Thats how I feel so far why are all the new Cal ships going to be missles based and not one gun ship? Or one ship based off the Rohk. So they use the Scorp model  . Why don't they just delete hybirds from Caldari all together and be done with it. Why pretend that there is even another option other then missles for Caldari Players. I am glad I started to cross train ***lente now.
Seriously, don't jump to conclusions here. Let's think about this. Rails require three important things:
* Cap use. This is not a trivial factor, especially on ships with other cap-hungry modules.
* Good ship bonuses. Caldari railboats depend on having that optimal bonus to be even remotely effective, and really start to shine with two of them (on the T2 ships).
* Sniper role. Short/mid-range rails aren't all that great. This means operating at long range, with most of your slots used up by SBs/TCs/etc.
Now what does this mean?
1) Ewar frig: ECM = high cap use...
2) Black ops: see above, without the tracking issue.
3) Marauder: carebearmobile...
4) Heavy interdictor: has to be close-range...
Very much understandable. Still, something is STILL missing. I simply cannot believe that, there is NO role for a caldari gunship in 4 new ship classes.
And to be honest cap use for the ECM is not THAT important, at least nothing that a capbooster/recharger/relay cannot solve.
Also, as someone has pointed out elsewhere, the heavy dictor should by based on the Moa as it is based on the tier 3 cruiser of all the other races. Yes, extremely long range is not that useful, but let us not forget Caldari can use blasters as well.
I dunno, I was just really put off by that, slap-on-the-face kind of thing as I am one of the last surviving Caldari gun-users out there. I suppose Caldari gunnery is gonna take the road of the Dodo.
You are right about people jumping to conclusions, but on the other hand, since modeling IS the most time-consuming part of designing a ship, I suppose there is not much possibility of change, and what we're seeing is going to be what we're getting as far as guns/missiles are concernced, as there's no way that a designed ship is not gonna be used, or that someone is going to be adding 6 gun hardpoints to an already completed ship. Oh well, **** happens.
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