"Without RDVs assault dropships would go unchecked!"

I understand the issue but its a railgun, the slug would travel about 3 miles before drop off so stop being ridiculous. An ROF nerf would be better or lower the shots before overheat by one.

all rail turrets need a tiny pinpoint reticle. this way big slow targets die the same as normal but smaller faster targets such as DS and infantry are much harder to hit. if the ads is moving it doesn't die as easy but its aim suffers. if it sits still its aim is deadly but rail turrets have a strong chance of killing you. the problem is rail turrets can just as easily kill a fast moving scout as they can a tank. the "if the reticle is red,shoot" mechanic needs to go and the size of the reticle needs a massive reduction

damn right it would make a difference. there is not a chance in hell you are going to strike down a moving ads with no reticle from a rail tank or rail installation. its hard enough to hit something your aiming at with the reticle let alone without one. the problem with dust is you can shoot as soon as the reticle turns red regardless of movement and weather your actually on target and you will hit. this is the mechanic most people use and what makes forge sniping work so well.

reducing the reticle down to a pinpoint one instead of a massive box would limit what it can hit to large slow moving targets and anything sitting still. if your fast moving then your not going to be hit as easy.

current rail guns can shoot anything moving or not regardless of size and that is down to the reticle size and the red marker saying you are on target. with what i suggested an ads hovering above an objective is deadly until a rail shoots it down. a moving ads above an objective is ineffective yet the rail cant shoot it down because its hard to hit. the choice is for the ads guy to take.

You must of seen some really shet pilots. Best I've gone this builds is 47/1 with other dedicated pilots going similar.

10-15 kills jezz

What, because it doesn't fit with your ASS dropship agenda?

Also not related to the issue, but if you are getting killed by railguns with over 3000 damage a shot, they don't have any defense! The reason railguns are so easy to use is because you can abuse the redline AND use them as shotguns to destroy everything with ease.

Railguns need to have a fixed area of rotation (redesign the turret to be locked to a small angle of movement to allow the use of an insanely powerful gun like the railgun) like tank destroyers or nerfed through DPS, turn speed and heat build up. They should always be a threat to all vehicles, but they should be used in the proper caldari manner AND have a drawback to spamming shots in cqc.

QQ more.

Your obviously doing it wrong since i cant 1HKO a DS with my Breach Fg , Proto level, Prof 5 and 2 complex dam mods.

Lock the aiming reticle in place when ever the railgun is charging up. Power is being drawn from the rotational servos to power the gun, so it can't aim while charging. This injects a bit more skill into railguns. Fixed.
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This is not CoD face the fact AV is designed to kill vehicles. I simply take this whiny QQ as the guns working as intented. Its not CCPs fault your using the verc incorrectly

This would be the most logical and best lore answer to limiting their range. Even explains why in Eve you have an incredibly extended range.

This added in with a nerf to rof and we are good.

I have shot at that gallente ADS before with a rail turret. I do not know what he had fit, all I know is the first shot took his shields, he turned on his hardener, I then proceded to put another 3 rail rounds into him and he just casually drifted behind a building.

Granted not all pilots fit like that but that's player choice! Tankers these days think fitting damage mods is the be all and end all of rail tanking. I fit for tank with 0 damage mods and beat these so called glass cannons in one on one rail combat in my maddy.

Ok so I guess I must consider than damage mod stacked rail tanks are going to be doing more damage, so then is the problem not too much damage when using lots of damage mods? Then also I point back to the red line issues. If you fly high up, and over towards that enemy tanks position, assuming you were not to be red line counted out, you can follow him anywhere he goes with immunity. Once you are above that rail tank what can he do?

I try to position up tall hills waiting for the ADS to mistakenly go back into my narrow firing arc now pointing in the sky but it generally fails.

Granted red line tanks are a pain, remove the red line and I would think ADS would be smashing tanks or at the very least making them tuck tail and run for what ever cover they can see, licking their wounds.

So remove active mod stacking. This includes hardeners.

Problem solved.

ADSes can live. LAVs can live. Redline sniping isn't as devastating.

AV is relevant.



Wow, you're a douche.