Soldarius
Caldari Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2011.08.23 05:00:00 -
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Folks are wprried about how powerful cloak-fitted fleets will be with no/delayed local.
LEts look at the module, Improved Cloak.
In short, 20 second sensor recalibration delay, and 40% reduced scan resolution.
Scenario 1: duder is baiting in a belt. Undetected small gang warps in and tackles. Cloaked gang is sitting on grid and decloaks to engage. .......... 20 seconds later they can start targeting. .......... 10-20 seconds later, they get locks, assuming the baited fleet is still there. If so, cool. Trap success because red FC is confident of his fleet's ability to win. If not, sucks. Trap fail. Red FC isn't confident of a win and orders warp out.
Scenario 2: duder is sitting in a belt baiting. Red fleet warps in and tackles. Cloaked gank squad is sitting off grid. Bait calls on coms saying hook has been taken. They decloak, hit warp........ wait for it...... warp starts....... bit more warping, probably the reds don't notice because they're too busy shooting to dscan. Gank squad arrives and reds go "Oh, ****!" Gank squad starts targeting because they spent their 20 second recal time warping. Slow targets get locked. goodfites ensue.
Scenario 3: Bots rating it up in a nice truesec system off the beaten path. Cloaky scout arrives to take a look at all the NPC kills he saw on dotlan. Dscan shows Tengus and Ravens with numerically sequential names. Warping to a sanctum/belt, he waits patiently. Bit later, bot warps in. Gank, kasplooey. -1 bot.
Scenario 4: Bots rating it up in a nice truesec system off the beaten path. Cloaky scout arrives to take a look at all the NPC kills he saw on dotlan. Bots see non-blue in local and log/warp to POS long before scout ever gets a fix on them. Boring bots win. DRF goes on to curb-stomp all of nul.
Other tactics have been mentioned in this thread. It won't break nul. It will change tactics. It will make nul more fluid. People, actual people, might have to actually work together.
I think its time for local to go away. "The Lord loosed upon them his fierce anger All of his fury and rage missiles." - The Scriptures, Book II, Apocalypse 10:1 amended
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