Jago Kain
Amarr
Ramm's RDI
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Posted - 2007.10.19 23:00:00 -
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I started training as pure Amarr, but cross-trained Caldari when I became a level 4 mission runnner.... shortly before the big missile nerf. 
I still tend to use Caldari ships for PvE, but for PvP I have stayed almost exclusively Amarr.
In PvP fleet engagements, it has been my experience that Amarr ships are called primary less often. This may well be due, in part, to the whining about Amarr ships being rubbish; perhaps folk see them as less of a threat? Coward that I am, I'm quite grateful of this. 
In any case, a lot of the Amarr ships can be set up to take a fair beating whilst still being able to dish out the lumps. A decently set-up Zealot is still fairly dangerous, as I'm sure many of you will have discovered.
There is also the style factor.
Sad act that I am, I think that overall the Amarr ships are the best looking in the game. I fell in love with the Prophecy when it was introduced and to my mind, the Amarr inties look exactly as a ship of that class should; sleek and deadly.
Even the battleships are pretty. The Abaddon, in particular, looks like death-on-jets even before it's fired a shot, and it's really nasty at close or long-range with the appropriate set-up.
Caldari ships look too bleakly functional to me and lop-sided. Gallente ships look like half-melted, fake, plastic doggy-doo (particularly the Dominix) and the Minmatar... well... do I really need to say anything about a race that builds it's ships out of carboard tubes, off-cuts from electrical goods packaging and gaffa tape?
Then there is the weapons issue. Lasers are inherently cool and just what I signed up for when I started EVE. Who doesn't like a bit of pew-pew?
As for relative merits... how many folk do you see flying a Raven/Scorp in PvP compared to the number of Geddon/Apocalypse pilots? Has to be a reason, even taking into account the relative merits of lasers and missiles. If Amarr sucked totally and flying Caldari was a win button, the numbers would be the other way around.
The fact that there is still debate about wether or not Amarr need further nerfing or some love says to me that the gap between Amarr and the other races is not as wide as some would have you believe.
Horses for courses I'd say, and, unfashionable as it may be, I like Amarr and will continue to train for, and fly, the ships.
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