Escef, on 06 December 2014 - 09:16 PM, said:
My AS7-S. Note that leg armor, cooling, and ammo have seen small compromises. 74.4 alpha, 5.83 sustained DPS, 27% cooling.
AS7-S with stock engine and bigger guns. 103.6 alpha with 5.22 sustained DPS and 20% cooling.
If you want a Gauss you lose 5 damage over an AC20. If you want a second AC20 you lose out on secondary weapons. Big guns are NOT damage-to -tonnage effective. Twin LPLs mass as much as an AC20 and deal 22 damage, with no ammo restriction/liability. 4xASRM6 is 16 tons, not quite enough for an AC20 and adequate ammo, but in the change over you go from 48 damage to 20.
So, no, the KGC is not going to outgun the Atlas. More pinpoint? Hell yes, absolutely. The KGC will also probably do better at range (multiple Gauss or light ACs). But not raw firepower. The problem isn't the number of hardpoints, it's that you have a finite amount of tonnage to work with.
The KGC can run those exact same builds if it wants to and it has the option to do cool running high DPS builds like quad AC5s/UAC5s or high alpha PPFLD builds like dual gauss and AC40 which the Atlas cannot.
This makes weapon discussions moot because the KGC can match Atlas builds one for one.
I'll take on an Atlas any day with a quad AC5 build KGC. That build has a sustained DPS of 8.55 and puts 20 damage into ONE single location every 1.66s. Less, with CD modules