Gallente have had a buff recently, but I'm still not sure whether they're particularly good at anything.
Well, they're good at what they've always been good at. Capital Ships. They don't get really good PVP ships until you get to the Capital Ships skill, Where 50% of titans are Erebus' 48% are Avatars and the remaining 2 percent are spread about Minmatar and Caldari. Same spread for Supercarriers, and Carriers. Of dreadnaughts nowadays because Dreads are fairly quick to train for, you'll mostly likely see Moros' more oft than not, given that they do about double the damage of any other dreadnaught at perfect skills. and supposedly PL essentially makes you reprocess your super and train for Gallente or Amarr if you want to fly supers for them with them anymore that's how ridiculous the imbalance is for them.
Also before any of you capital hungry pilots start training for Caldari Caps, let me roll out something fairly basic for you. The only good Caldari Capital Ships are the Freighter and Jump Freighter. A Thanatos will always be preferred to a Chimera for Shield Logistics. Same for a Nyx to a Wyvern. The reason behind this is that the Chimera and Wyvern have gimped tanking and rep potential. They just don't have the capacitor and powergrid to fit an active local tank(which oddly is what you do on a carrier because of how triage mechanics work) and still maintain reps. The Nidhoggur and the Hel. However they have a slight bonus to their repping which gives them a bigger niche to fill than the Chimera and Wyvern, which basically fill the niche of "Well I got it really cheap, now to reprocess it and train for a Thanatos." Seriously the Caldari Capitals suck that bad but their Freighters are the best in the game. 3 freight containers means you get roughly 1/3 more space in your jump freighter cargohold than any other Freighter
Also to note, unlike prior iterations of ships, where Minmatar and Caldari were shield logistics and Amarr and Gallente were armor, Capital Ships work like this, for carriers at least, Minmatar and Gallente multitask armor and shields, Amarr and Caldari specialize in either armor or shields. The fact that the Thanatos can do both, combined with the fact that it's got a massive damage bonus to fighters means that you are basically forced to get into one if you want to compete.
Also as a bonus for all you fun mentalgen, this was my morning today.
http://dog-net.org/brdoc/?br=http%3A%2F%2Feve-kill.net%2F%3Fa%3Dkill_related%26kll_id%3D13881461&Goonswarm_Federation=blue&RAZOR_Alliance=blue&Fatal_Ascension=blue&Pandemic_Legion=blue&Red_Alliance=red&Test_Alliance_Please_Ignore=blue&Raiden_=red&Nulli_Secunda=red&Vera_Cruz_Alliance=red&HUN_Reloaded=red&Viking_Empire=red&Against_ALL_Authorities=red&Pangu_Coalition=red&Nulli_Tertius=red&Bloomswarm=red&The____Percent=blue&RED_OverLord=red&The_Aurora_Shadow=blue&Executive_Outcomes=blue&Test_Friends_Please_Ignore=blue&C_NVICTED=blue&SpaceMonkey_s_Alliance=blue&Tactical_Narcotics_Team=blue&Cascade_Imminent=red&Get_Off_My_Lawn=blue&En_Garde=red&Mordus_Angels=blue&The_Kadeshi=red&Fidelas_Constans=blue&Circle_Of_Two=blue&HELL_S=red&Caladrius_Alliance=red#assignNote how we(speaking of my alliance and coalition Nulli and the So-Co.) are outnumbered nearly 2 to 1, also note that the -A- coward fit Tengu's left about 30 minutes in because they didn't want to lose any more Tengu's. They care only for efficiency and not how to have fun play EVE Online.
That's not me self destructing by the way. Also I'm in the red blob in this image. Because none of our elitepvp smug bastards thought to take nice epic screenshots like this.
Also total in local was 1978 people near the end. We had more people there than Jita has on at a time during a busy day. Ti-Di was at 10% the entire fight. Occasionally the ti-di went to a blazing 12%, generally just after our bomber wings killed like 30-40 testies in a single wave. This is what I now play EVE Online for. I think I'm going to get on tonight and see if there's going to be a destroyer or frig fleet running and get in on some lulztastic kills.
Also to further inflate this post, I have been admiring the enemies propaganda department lately. Seriously they have some genuinely good stuff.
Links incoming,
Fun song good pacing to the video really emphasizes how pretty EVE is at times.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToNHzIH3RT0&feature=channel&list=ULCompletely miss tells it, but still nice pacing and good music. DurrHurrDurr one of the officers of TEST has freely admitted on Kugu that they came to Delve to burn it to the ground and remake it as, oh god I'm trying to think of how DurrHurrDurr worded it now and the post was quickly edited, something like "Remake delve as the dilapidated bloody cigarette lighter burned ball sack of the new TEST empire with which to hold more delicious TESTicles." and not for good fights. Also, those aren't exactly his words, but I have a feeling that's close to how DurrHurrDurr would word it. He kinda has a way with words like that.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNn3GDBLyFc&feature=channel&list=ULReally incongruous when they are talking about TEST for most of the song and then switch to talking about Nulli for the chorus. But anyway,
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnG-3AuYd4URazor makes the best propaganda in the game, seriously, give it a watch, it's fucking quality shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wuREEonWGJ8EDIT:Just realized I forgot to link Razor's actual propaganda site,
http://propaganda.eve-razor.com/Example of DurrHurrDurr's posting prowess,
(11:45:25 PM) pleaseignore.com: Whoever the forum moderator is that moved my SMITE key thread into a public area where anyone can see the keys, I hope you get in a car crash and get impaled by part of your car infected by hepatitis, pissed on by a passing deer, have your stereo stolen before your very eyes by some random dude who then pulls you off the piece of car lodged in your chest only to fuck you with his AIDS-infected cock, giving you his AIDS and then killing you with his AIDS. Cunt.
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By the way, Bay12ers really need to remember about the Bay12 EVE chat channel. I still hang out in it most of the time I'm online.