Cap Missile Balance

[mjolnir]

The whole idea, and I've said this many a times, is that the idea of missiles using the same energy percentage is a bad idea. I completely agree with missiles taking just over half the energy bar to fire, but that doesn't mean the energy-to-damage ratios should be so different. It should take the same percentage of the energy bar, yes, but at the same time, keep the same or similar damage-to-energy ratio.

:wacko:

Using same energy percentage is a bad idea... but actually it's not so bad idea... uhh.

Refer to your chart, the Kusari Destroyer Missile turret's efficiency is 12.22 while Bret Destroyer Missile turret's efficiency is 11.33. The only thing worse I can find is the Liberty Destroyer missile turret, which is 13.00 (BIG problem with that one..).

Yes they are, how is that a BIG problem. If I go 1vs1 with any of those ships. Those with high damaging missiles have and advantage. Since 110k damage vs 170k quite some. Yet when you have 30% left of small cruiser powerplant you can almost not fire a razor. With the big powerplant you can fire tons of things.

So you do more damage and can fire more after that.

If we turn it around, the "heavier" missiles should according to you do more damage at same efficiency as the lighter ones, what do the light ones have as an advantage then? The heavy ones are simply better.

Remember 4.84, there you had basic missile turret doing 3.5k damage and using some 40k energy, then you had dragonfly that did 5k damage for 90k energy => extremely worse efficency. Now what did people mount if they could? Dragonfly, cause more "concentrated" damage is better and saves you slots.

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