Faster... relative to what?As for the 450 m/s speed limit, think of that as a governor cap on your engine preventing you from going faster while at the same time having the demon spawn outer-dimensional child of Newton flogging your spacecraft from a higher dimension on the outside preventing it from exceeding this speed even in flight assist off mode.
I know, I know, ED doesn't follow the laws of physics but at times the gigantic nerd inside of me wants to jump out and shout out loud.
were you bounty hunting or bounty farming?
None of the projectiles should have damage falloff at range. I was just singling out railguns specifically.
Per Newton's first law:
Their trajectory would be altered because if they were to impact an object or particle in space, per newtonian physics their vector state would change depending on the angle of incidence they contacted the foreign object at relative to its stationary mass and their forward momentum.
Lasers will have a damage falloff due to beam divergence. It is really really hard to make a laser have zero divergence. To do so would require great amounts of power and generate a large amount of heat focusing in the weapon. Read up on the inverse square law and you'll start to get the idea.
As for the 450 m/s speed limit, think of that as a governor cap on your engine preventing you from going faster while at the same time having the demon spawn outer-dimensional child of Newton flogging your spacecraft from a higher dimension on the outside preventing it from exceeding this speed even in flight assist off mode.
I know, I know, ED doesn't follow the laws of physics but at times the gigantic nerd inside of me wants to jump out and shout out loud.
Different tools for different situations as Mike Evans stated. Yes, they do require more skill to use, but they also aren't needed for every situation. I'd say more skill is required in knowing when to use these weapons over being able to use them at all. I'd also say there are more situations where Multis are just more efficient due to extended battles, for instance, RES hunting. Falling back to Multicannons is easy when you likely won't need Rails or Cannons unless you are PvPing, doing Assassinations (still questionable), or just specifically hunting big ships.
It all comes down to what you are doing and how long you are doing it for. That doesn't come down to skill in usage, it's about efficiency. I can use Rails just fine, but I don't, really no need for me, I do sometimes fit cannons though. There is always room for discussion about these things and I don't think anyone is demanding that anything be made easier here. Multicannons are a very solid choice due to their staying power in multiple engagements over a longer period of time, which is probably the situation a lot of people find themselves in while farming credits or Combat Rank.
I think these reasons are why people fall back to them and label them better. They are better *for them* in general play, unfortunately they then come here and try to turn it into a fact in their arguments for balance. That's why these discussions are good, we can find error in our ways.
