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Karga Uga
Octavian Vanguard
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.07.17 13:42:00 -
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The biggest problem with 1400mm arties in a fleet fight is it's ammo capactiy.
Once the lag monster shows up you don't get to reload anymore, therefore your 12 rounds of Tremor L per gun are all you get to shoot at the enemy. A buff up to 24 rounds with a slight increase in cycle time to keep DPS the same would be very beneficial.
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Karga Uga
Octavian Vanguard
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.07.23 10:07:00 -
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Edited by: Karga Uga on 23/07/2008 10:15:58
There is nothing wrong with Arty DPS. A 6 x 1400mm Tempest with 2 Gyros does comparable DPS with a 7 x 425mm Megathron with 2 Magstabs.
The capless advangtage of the arties is balanced against the rails better tracking.
The single biggest problem an arty user faces is lag. As has previously been pointed out once your guns are empty, they're empty and that's it. The above Tempest can fire 12 volleys of Tremor L for 3287 damage per volley. That's 39444 damage per reload. The MegaT gets 40 volleys at 1747 damage per volley, which equals 69880.
In a laggy fleet situation this means that a Tempest can only be relied on to do 56% of the damage a Megathron is capable of putting out. Also the Tempest will be out of ammo in 124 seconds, whereas a Mega can continue to shoot for 224 seconds. Meaning a Mega will be useful for a lot longer to the fleet.
I appreciate that this isn't the place for comparing ships effectiveness, but there is something wrong with the Arty mechanic when lag sets in. Currently CCP can't fix the lag, but they could ease the pain for the Minmatar BS pilots.
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Karga Uga
Octavian Vanguard
RAZOR Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.05 12:09:00 -
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Edited by: Karga Uga on 05/08/2008 12:09:28
 Originally by: Elhohim
then I had an epiphany, a mental sound picture of what I d like arty to be
BLam blam blam blam...then the sound of silence - rince repeat -
how about keeping the clip size the same and increase the rof, and by increase I mean like faster than AC.
If you wanted it to be more like RL artilliary you'd change the clip size to be equal to the amount of ammo in your hold and make the ROF something like 20 seconds between shots. This would reflect the guns being reloaded after every shot.
But that idea is fairly stupid also. As previously mentioned, the DPS is ok on the 1400mm, but the Alpha is lagging far, far behind. Also there is the fact that the clip size is not fit for purpose when the laggy state of most fleet fights is taken into account.
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