Proxay
Stimulus
Rote Kapelle
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Posted - 2012.08.26 13:59:00 -
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This is a terrible module, it destroys any element of solo or small gang PVP against a battleship, here is why:
I was out hunting with a corpmate in Syndicate. We were both in Cynabals.
We were spending a bit of time potting about the Orvolle gate in PF-, to our surprise, a Scorpion Navy Issue jumped solo into PF-.
He cloaked.
We spent a while trying to decloak but couldn't get a good bead on him, so we waited. He eventually decloaked, and aligned. I pointed him, and he activated his TARGET SPECTRUM BREAKER.
This broke my lock and he warped away.
"what the **** was that".
Not to be left wondering, we made quickly into the direction he fled, we were not letting this prey get away.
We chased him to his destination gate. Our Cynabals landed near him (9km away), wherein he cloaked.
I moved in quickly and de-cloaked his ship, thinking "AHA WE GOT YOU NOW". No.
He sat there, wouldn't shoot back at us or anything, no no no. He just left that module cycling, breaking one of our locks at a time, while the other would re-lock and attempt to engage the scram again / or bump his alignment, he'd break their lock not long after.
This continued until he was in 1/4 shield, where we both lost lock, and he was aligned, and warped out.
He did not fire a shot back, he just sat there, cycling his stupid TARGET SPECTRUM BREAKER.
How are you meant to pin a battleship down if he can just cycle this 'GET OUT' button until it eventually clicks onto his favour and he can escape.
Issues with module:
- Cycles too quickly .
- No range limit
- Cap usage isn't high enough
- Doesn't require charges
- Chance rate isn't displayed clearly in item info - no way to 'improve' odds as an aggressor.
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How we could've stopped him escaping?
- More people? - that's a load of bullshit though, all the ******* ratting scrubs are going to amass in the belts and plexes of EVE sporting this magical 'anti-ganker' button. What a piece of ****.
- Bump better? - I'm pretty ******* good at bumping if I do say so myself, but it takes me about 10 seconds to turn around and gain significant enough speed to bump again. In that time he could realign.
I don't know... this module needs some serious revision. It is not small-gang / soloist friendly. It's too easy for battleships to run off.
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