Originally Posted by adamkafei

Well then I shall stay out of it... I've had my fair share of forum wars for a while... I recall I lost them all.

*Beams to his ship and transwarps away*

Originally Posted by hereticknight085

Gee. Thanks. For abandoning me. =P

Originally Posted by flekh

There's three reasons any PvPer would ever shoot at a cruiser:
- To find out if it's piloted by a noob (if it isn't, you won't make a dent, and will stop after a few seconds to find easier prey)
- To kill it if it got seperated into a 1v4 or 1v5 situation
- Anytime for a free kill if it is piloted by a noob.

The Galaxy-R is ... a noob magnet. Maybe even worse than the Ody.
No decent PvPer will ever go after a good Galaxy - it's not worth the effort, you could just as well shoot at a brick wall.
Your Galaxy though ... yeah, that probably has a targeting crosshair painted on it.


But let's put the L2P excalmations aside for a second, and explain to you (again) your misconception about weapon power, maybe you'll learn it some day:

If you put weapon power at 125, then, with an 8-beam config, your firing sequence would look like this:
Beam 1: 125 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 2: 115 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 3: 105 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 4: 95 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 5: 85 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 6: 75 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 7: 65 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
Beam 8: 55 - - 55 - - 55 - - 55
You'd be firing at an effective average power level of 63.75.

Now, let's do this again at 150 weapon power. As you mentioned, there is a cap at 125 - for each single shot! It will look like this:
Beam1 : 125 (150) - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam2 : 125 (140) - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam3 : 125 (130) - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam4 : 120 - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam5 : 110 - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam6 : 100 - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam7 : 90 - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
Beam8 : 80 - - 80 - - 80 - - 80
You'd be firing at an effective average power level of 87.34.
An increase in DPS of 37%!

Weapon power over 125 base is not lost - it counteracts weapon drain. And guess what Cruisers excel at? Right: the ability to build up insane levels of subsystem power. That's the key to Cruiser-DPS (also to cruiser tanking, since you need to output dps to make mobs shoot at you).
And that's also why the Galaxy-R's Saucer Seperation is indeed the Galaxy's DPS-mode.
You're complaining that your ship deals no damage in heal-mode ... and that it can't heal as well in dps-mode. You're doing it completely WRONG!

L2P!
(you had this coming, you knew that, right? :p)

If you're still not convinced: give me a tell ingame, and I'll show you what a cruiser can do.

Originally Posted by alexindcobra

How would you know if someone is a noob, if there level matches yours? There is a reason why people think its a noob ship because they know the ship is weak in PVP, and only noobs would not know that. Most people don't know how to set it up to make it a better competitor. I fly it because I am a big fan of TNG and DS9, and I'm far from being a noob. After playing this game and trying different kits and setups, there is not much I can do to make me satisfied with the Galaxy-R without having a better turn rate.

Ok, you know where to find me. My name is the same and name the type of ship you want to go against and leave the borg kit.

Originally Posted by hereticknight085

Noobs are easy to pick out based on how they fly and what kind of weapons they are using. They can also be picked out based on how they react to certain situations, what abilities they use, and when and where and how they use them.

Also what do you have against the borg set?

Originally Posted by alexindcobra

Explain why you get attacked as soon as you leave the gate?

Originally Posted by adamkafei

What does that have to do with anything to do with turn rates?

For that matter what does that have to do with anything full stop?

Originally Posted by alexindcobra

I was talking to hereticknight085 because he assumes he knows why everbody attacks the Galaxy ship first.