yes yes yes Rusty.. but lets clear up whether Rail guns need actual RAILS, to be classified as a rail gun!

I like to be positive about the DEVs and the game as much as needed, but lets be frank...(puts on fake moustache)... the Forge Gun doesnt have the physical attributes to accurately fire a rail projectile. It lacks epeen inducing Length.

If indeed the FG does possess rails that is. If it doesnt, then it is a Blaster. Which would match the item description. Rail guns afaik dont build a magnetic charge as the rail operate off of a current.

Sure the charge up is to generate the Electrical charge to power the rail, but in no way does that translate into the forward armature locks into position, stabilizing the magnetic fieldlink

sounds like a blaster to meeeee

yes yes the DEVs (bless their lil hearts!) have classified the FG as a rail gun, but its description describes a process alien to rail gun technology.

1 blasters are hybrid because their ammunition is a metal casing around a plasma core
1.2 then again railguns use the same ammo... so the difference in names must be ...
Something Else:
Antimatter Charge Small: 7hp kinetic damage, 5hp thermal damage
Consists of two components: a shell of titanium and a core of antimatter atoms suspended in plasma state. Railguns launch the shell directly, while particle blasters pump the plasma into a cyclotron and process the plasma into a bolt that is then fired.

-50% optimal range


Iridium Charge Small: 4 kinetic damage 3 thermal
Consists of two components: a shell of titanium and a core of iridium atoms suspended in plasma state. Railguns launch the shell directly, while particle blasters pump the plasma into a cyclotron and process the plasma into a bolt that is then fired.

20% increased optimal range.
24% reduced capacitor need.

among many others, all hybrid ammo does varying ratio's of kinetic and thermal damage.



Light Ion Blaster 1
Particle blasters operate on a similar principle as the railgun except they fire a magnetically contained ball of subatomic particles. No other turret class can match the sheer destructive power of particle blasters, but due to the rapid dispersion of the containment field, it also has the worst range of all turrets.

Requires hybrid charge types: Antimatter, Iridium, Iron, Lead, Plutonium, Thorium, Tungsten, Uranium.


150mm Railgun 1
This is a standard long-range railgun designed for frigates. Railguns use magnetic rails to fire solid chunks of matter at hypersonic speed. The accurate range of railguns is very good, but due to technical limitations it cannot use onboard guidance. This results in a fairly rapid drop in accuracy at extreme ranges.

Requires hybrid charge types: Antimatter, Iridium, Iron, Lead, Plutonium, Thorium, Tungsten, Uranium.




dun mind me too much, at this point i am poking fun at the devs for messing up either the FG's description or its physical attributes. ie: railguns... use rails to couple an armature, then pass a current thru this assembly to create a magnetic field which forces the armature along the rails propelling the payload. The length of the rails is an indicator of the acceleration needed to propel the projectile the desired distance. (hence my poking fun at the size of the FG if it is indeed a railgun)

If the FG is as its ingame description implies, then it is actually a really really scary nasty Blaster. (and in EvE blasters as short range weapons in the smallest size, range from 500m optimal out to 1500falloff ...sound slightly familiar?)