@Lugburz I’m going to answer your question from the other thread on here
Yep. You saw the graph above. A single volley does more damage than a Heavy volley, and it has a higher rate of fire (narrow staircase). It has better range than turrets and you don’t have to worry about traversal velocity or impure damage types inflicting suboptimal damage. Missiles travel faster than drones so there is no time wasted, and they don’t lose precision like drones do when enemies outpace drones orbiting them. Many of our members who have bling Gilas and Ishtars switched to the CNI because after trying it out when they realized the theory translated into practice on it having higher throughput (minus a tiny pool of blacklisted missions they decline for blitzing purposes).
We have a similar situation with our recommended L4 ship being a RHML Typhoon Fleet Issue. The mission completion speed of that ship is ludacrisly insane. ■■■■ T3Cs, Mauraders, Polarized Machs, Rattles, etc - they don’t come close. We haven’t encountered a fit that outperforms it in L4s specifically (it is NOT capable of higher end PVE). Our second preferred fit is a Cruise Typhoon - that also outperforms or has comparable performance to most T2/Faction BSes and T3Cs. A lot of Rattlesnakes have gotten sold in favor of the TFI and regular Typhoon.
We don’t tell our members what to fly - they can fly whatever the hell they want. We advise them to try the fits… they voluntarily make the switch when they realize the fits live up to the hype. I’m an obsessive-compulsive min-maxing theory crafter with a math/computer science background who likes modeling/simulating things. I don’t settle for “tried and true” when maybe things could be even better. Most people wouldn’t think to go with RLMLs and RHMLs, but the numbers (and field testing) add up. Not going to lie, I’m worse than Kirk in @Xuxe_Xu’s post above 
. When a member says “I don’t care about throughput I just want to have fun flying this certain playstyle/ship” then I’ll min-max that playstyle/ship and everyone’s happy 
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