Im mad about nano blaster hyperion and mega to tell the truth. There is just something about them that just makes them so much fun.

They do perform quite well when accompanied with a gang of 20-30 other people all using ACs

Im mad about nano blaster hyperion and mega to tell the truth. There is just something about them that just makes them so much fun.

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here are the fixes for hybrids:

blasters:

concept shotguns (short range arties...)

1. Increase base damage by 30%
2. Decrease rate of fire by 30%

well it is an instance where it works because you eliminate the mobility issue out of the equation

Been going out in gangs of 5 to 10 in them lately. Bugger all was found to kill. I keep trying to get more FCs to let me bring them but they hold the view a BS cant keep up with BC

However I have corrupted another player who now flys a triple nano mega

usefull crtique

The mega is just being silly

I agree, its daft, looks comical on a KM and EFT screams just no.

But my god it is so much fun to fly and at the end of the day, if it works and you're having fun why not?

When I do take it out on "nano hac roams" someone will always pipe up with "erm, why is that mega here?". People will then mutter about it but when they hear its me the FC will just say something along the lines of "No battleships, only baltec is to be in one, he does magic". I then become the fleets flagship and fun is had with much trolling about the guys who are slower than me and everyone compeating over who can out damage the mega. I normaly win if I can lock the target

Also yes shes the same fit.

so what you are saying is that in the nano hac you pose as the bait? cool and then dumfound the guys when you start to orbit them lolz classic... i was looking for a good bait ship...

drones anyone?

Hybrids have several issues. Here is the list I know of for blasters:

1) harsh fitting requirements (it is nearly impossible to fit neutron blasters and tank be it active or passive on blasterboats)
2) only marginal damage increase compared to other gun types (especially if you take into account fitting requirements. your ion/electron blaster ship will be outdamaged even at close range by 425mm ACs)
3) ships intended as blasterboats are slow (hence will be kited to death or killed before being able to apply it damage)
4) blasters uses relatively high amount of capacitor (because amarr have cap reduction for their ships and other dmg types does not use cap)

tweaking these stats will probably only move blasters closer to autocannons, which is not intended direction. What about giving hybrids possibility to shoot auxiliary ammo?

This ammunition would do 0 damage, but would have other effects like ECM, web, knocks off your aligment, etc. (exact details can be worked on)

Together with maybe slight increase in damage it could justify having harsh fitting requirements, cap usage and long ammo switch time.

Similar solution could be used for railguns maybe with different effects.

ammo:

Simular boost that projectile ammo got

concept choice between what damage type you want to do between thermal and Kinetic (i.e. antimater does 80% thermal damage 20% kin damage, uranium does 80% kin damage and 20% thermal damage)

While I realize that having the option to change damage type seems appealing, please consider the many active, cap using, modules these ships typically fit. Especially the active tanked ones. Say you're out in a Hyperion, there's plenty to manage already without having consider the type of ammunition you're using for the "right" damage. Besides, as I understand it, hybrid ammunition already has one of the best damage profiles.

Disagree.

ECM should be limited to ECM modules - and, what would stop another racial shiptype from fitting those guns and using that ammo?

Why would you be interested in giving every-other-ship capable of fitting hybrids the exact same advantage?

Rethink your suggestions, they have merit worth considering but are open to exploit by anyone with enough CPU and cap, don't you think?

AK

Surely the main and primary choice of ammo is related to the amount of damage it deals and then range?

As for damage type, w/e?

Blasters are not as broken as people make out but do need work on them. Rails are something even I don't use.

Crazy idea for Blasterboats:

Role bonus: -30% to the range of stasis webifiers
Gallente Battleship bonus: 15% increase to the velocity factor of statis webifiers per level.

Meaning, it's hard to catch you, but when they do, you're royally feckered.

A random idea, but I like it.

...because it would inherently mean we loose one bonus on ships that don't already have a hybrid bonus...

Why?

The short-comings of the Hybrids are a result of poorly thought out game changes, and none of those changes were to hybrid weaponry...

Because you can't add another bonus to a ship that is supposed to use hybrids without also adding another bonus to the same ship of the other races.

If you did, that hybrid ship would be overpowered. And if you add another bonus to the same ship of other races, hybrids users loose again because the added bonus was "wasted" on fixing the turrets while the others likely got something specific for their role.



I partly agree. I don't think they were necessarily poorly thought out, but you're right that nothing has changed with hybrids themselves to get us to where we are today.

Which means that one way to go about it would be to nerf projectiles/lasers/missiles/whatever instead. I believe that will upset a lot more people than whatever boost they can come up with for hybrids though.

Because you can't add another bonus to a ship that is supposed to use hybrids without also adding another bonus to the same ship of the other races.

If you did, that hybrid ship would be overpowered. And if you add another bonus to the same ship of other races, hybrids users loose again because the added bonus was "wasted" on fixing the turrets while the others likely got something specific for their role.