cause it isn't the DS, huh?

railguns are fine apart from the huge damage they deal. no tank has enough HP to survie 3 or 2 shots(if its proto rail) while they have 2 damage mods running. almost 2k damage or over form a moded pro rail is ridiculos.

if you take into to account the ammount of charge's per clip plus spare ammo and re-fire rate it is ridiculos. all ralig guns would be fine if they received 400-500 less damage. this would allow basically all vehicles to survive 2-3 shots and might require a 4th to be killed.

missiles can empty thier entire clip extremly quick but have that killing reload time to compensate :)

blasters overheat quickly/run out of clip quickly as well.

railgun has no downside.

railgun should get a drawback. either decrese current damage or add heavy recoil when it shoots so it is forced to re-align befor second shot.

Tankers want tanks to be the best counter to tanks, but instead of wanting dropships to be the best counter to dropships, they'd rather tanks do that as well

I think a huge nerf to range would help to solve all of the railgun problems. Maybe 350m at most would still keep it as a viable long range weapon without giving it the ability to control the whole battlefield from one location.


I like the recoil idea. I've found it funny how I can aim at a Bolas from across the map and just hold R1 and watch it get destroyed.

What will char char do? He only rail tanks.

Tankers want tanks to be the best counter to tanks, but instead of wanting dropships to be the best counter to dropships, they'd rather tanks do that as well

I'm just waiting for Spkr to grace us with his presence

Imagine you play as a caldari AR user. But the map you play on has no cover anywhere near any of the objectives. Infact there is only 1 wall to hide behind and it is way over at the back of the map.. The map is all completely flat open ground, not a bump or a wall anywhere. On this map are 3 enemy snipers on a hill. This hill lets them see you at all times. This hill is also deep in the redline. So deep that no-one can get to them, even with a suicide run.

Also on this map are other players in Amarr suits. You are the only Caldari player. But the snipers are not interested in the Amarr players. They are smaller and harder to see and have small walls that your caldari suit cannot hide behind. So the 3 snipers only have you to look for the entire match.

These snipers can kill you in 2 shots, From 540 meters away and you have no cover and cannot move out of range as you are always in range. The playable area of the map is only 530 meters across.

This is what it is like for dropship pilots at the moment. No cover, no warning, no chance. If you want to play you have to step into his sights. The only defence is to hope he misses.

... on this map are other players in Amarr suits. You are the only Caldari player. But the snipers are not interested in the Amarr players. They are smaller and harder to see and have small walls that your caldari suit cannot hide behind. So the 3 snipers only have you to look for the entire match.

peg and Pearson will be here too.

Perfect analogy for the railgun vs dropship situation in my opinion.

Don't forget CharCharOdell and Tankahiro.

The LOLTank Brigade is very strong in numbers, but not so strong on the whole quality thing.

kind of long winded though.