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'The weapon commonly referred to as a 'Railgun' does not utilize rails within the barrel of the gun that the charge slides on - mounting lugs are not visible on images of the charges. However, they are more likely to be what we call Coilguns (also known as Gauss guns), which operate by accelerating a magnetically-charged projectile with electromagnets.

As a Railgun does not have to traverse a heavy large-caliber barrel or generate a beam of high-energy light, it can be made smaller and lighter (and thus use much less powergrid than Artillery Cannons or Tachyon Beams).

Conversely, a Blaster first processes the Hybrid charge and turns it into a ball of plasma, held together by a strong electromagnetic containment field. This ball is then accelerated out of the weapon by the same method as a Railgun, but the containment field quickly dissipates once the ball leaves the barrel of the gun. This greatly affects effective range.

its only a rail because they don't have the technology for throwing lamp posts...

MIND BLOWN

wolfman throw back to anti-vehicle lampposts in E3 build!

i wish my tank shot lampposts! until then im stuck wishing for the day i can sell ym turret and strap a forge gun on my tank

For a guy in the CPM...you know surprisingly little about EVE lore.

10 isk says Chribba specs into FG's now for some Veldspar love.

we need to teach new players their history, the horror of the OP lamp posts, can not be forgotten

its rail.

its rail.

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?)

Then why does a proto Assault FG do more damage than a proto railgun that worth 850k more isk and weighs 10 tons more? It also fires faster because railgun has fire delay... now dont tell me some **** about how the railgun has unlimited ammo... i know that...

I heard forge guns use to fire LAVs too.

I knew it!

The community team does not possess ban hammers. They possess ban lamp posts.

While i''m not 100% sure of it's origins Only the Gallente use Plasma based Technology besides the Jovians.


I just read the description and it says that it fires Kinetic Slugs by during the Pre-Firing stages Magnetism is a huge part in it's functionality as well as other Rail Based components.

I'm not sure where that SVER guy got lasers from

So minmatar tech or caldari?

Then why does a proto Assault FG do more damage than a proto railgun that worth 850k more isk and weighs 10 tons more? It also fires faster because railgun has fire delay... now dont tell me some **** about how the railgun has unlimited ammo... i know that...

lets give it a crappy ads..it looks as if it could be givin a sight..

of course i think the forge gunner would prefer the big 0...

A whole post on a question created because someone is too lazy to read.

Read lore. It applies to these questions you all seem to feel a need to ask.

Better yet, don't argue with the people who CAN read. Because they try to give you the answer, but since it doesn't fit in that tiny little box you call a thought, it means the big, poopyhead, meanie literate person was lying to you!

if you'd stop blowing up our mining fleets we'd never think to turn our miners into weapons........

Get over it. Those hulks were an eyesore and needed to go.