Gallente Rebalance: Thorax Hulls

Various proposals have been put forth to reblance Gallente ships and Hybrid turrets. The CSM rejected all of the proposal that has been put to a vote. Some of the reasons include the proposals being to vague, they were to board and would most likely overpower something, and they make hybrids work too much like projectiles and lasers. Hopefully these proposal will alleviate and will be approved by the CSM to be raised to CCP. Instead of making a proposal to fix all Gallente ships I will be concentrating on ships based on the Thorax hull. This will allow me to propose specific fixes for each ship (with numbers!). I am also proposing that they make the changes for each ship individually rather than all at once.

Thorax

The Thorax suffers from a lack of CPU and powergrid to fit a buffer tank along with medium weapons. The current stats can not even fit a 800mm plate on Heavy Ion Blaster II’s without a reactor control unit. Comparatively the Rupture can fit 220m Vulcan AutoCannon II’s and a 1600mm plate and has comparable DPS, longer range, is faster, and has a much larger buffer. The Thorax should be able to fit a comparable build to the Rupture.

[Thorax, Proposed Fit]
Damage Control II
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Magnetic Field Stabilizer II

10MN MicroWarpdrive II
Stasis Webifier II
Warp Scrambler II

Heavy Ion Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Ion Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Ion Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Ion Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M
Heavy Ion Blaster II, Antimatter Charge M

Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I


Hammerhead II x5

[Rupture, Comparable build]
1600mm Reinforced Rolled Tungsten Plates I
Damage Control II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Energized Adaptive Nano Membrane II
Gyrostabilizer II

Y-T8 Overcharged Hydrocarbon I Microwarpdrive
Warp Scrambler II
Stasis Webifier II

220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
220mm Vulcan AutoCannon II, EMP M
Small Energy Neutralizer II
Small Energy Neutralizer II

Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I
Medium Trimark Armor Pump I


Hammerhead II x1
Hobgoblin II x4


Here are the proposed changes to the Thorax base attributes to allow this fit.



As you can see I've increased the CPU and powergrid to allow fitting of the Heavy Ion Blaster II's and a 1600mm plate. This brings the Thorax more inline with what I think a blaster ship should be. It now has the buffer to survive getting in range of other ships along with increased DPS by being able to fit larger blasters. Getting into range would still be a problem for the Thorax so I have also increased the base speed. This now makes armor buffered Thorax faster than a armor buffered Rupture. Note that I chose a speed that makes the Thorax slower than the Stabber. I feel blaster boats should still have trouble catching Stabber and its variants.

The increase to capacitor is to bring the Thorax inline with the Vigilant.

Even with the proposed changes I do not believe it is enough to bring the Thorax inline with other cruisers. I would like CCP to explore changing the damage bonus to 10% or dropping the Microwarp penalty bonus and changing it to a 10% per level fall off bonus. Or both.