My brother will be glad to hear that his 50cc dirtbike has better acceleration than a Lambourghini.

Can I use an analogy too? I promise it will be overly complex.

It's like we are comparing a Semi (no trailer) to a bus.

the Semi has more pick up and go, and can go faster longer because it's pretty much all engine - put some weight on it and it'll go slower but it is made to take it and keep moving.

the Bus is pretty big, but it is designed to use that size to hold passengers/shield generators so it does not have the same mobility as the semi. The bus was made for longer range combat so it's not meant to be a frontline combat unit like the semi truck.

Unfortunately the semi can carry the same railgun with the same power as the bus, but with better defenses and similar damage output.

Everyone knows that the shield generators use by Caldari are giant. To make it worse, the design specs put the generator where the engine is, requiring a weaker, smaller engine in order to fit everything.

CCP logic.

OR

Fit a missile or Rail and stay the **** away form me. Anyways, they need to make the passive regen on those a little bit better. That's how you fix them. Reason why we're faster is because we need the speed; you don't. Why would you? Your sitting in the back sniping at things. You don't need speed. That's why Caldari puts weaker engines on their stuff. Gallente use blasters (read: shortest ranged turrets in the game) so they need to get in close fast, which means to overcome their increased mass and make blasters useful, they would need to fit very good engines. and that's what they did. All of you are doing it wrong.