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Posted - 2012.11.16 04:12:00 -
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Dersen Lowery wrote:Michael Harari wrote:But, none of this matters, assuming he can align to a safe, activate MJD and then press warp when he lands (ie, he can press 3 buttons in order), you cant kill him. He could burn out all his launchers, accidentally smartbomb his drones and mwd 100km off gate before burning out his mwd, and you still cant kill him, because you are in a kiting ship. He can align to the safe, and he can activate the MJD. The MJD will then go through twenty seconds of painfully obvious spooling up before it activates, after which it's useless for 5 minutes. Is twenty seconds not enough time to react? Is the long spoolup plus the longer cooldown worth it in the general case vs. a Microwarp Drive? Is its vulnerability to the cheapest and easiest warp-canceler to fit not a tradeoff? I'm not being snarky; I don't know. I'm asking.
The thing is, that the Vagabond, with a longpoint here, because he's a kiting Vagabond, can see it spooling up, and burn 100km in the direction he is pointing.
I challenge the Vagabond pilot to actually be within point range where the 100km point will be. Also, the enemy ship will arrive there at full speed (as said in the description and various CCP posts), so, before he can even be locked, he is:
A) Already Aligned (To a safe, say 5 million km away)
B) At speed sufficient enough to warp
The ship then, unless completely terrible and afk, can immediately warp away on it's align, totally immune to the Vagabond, who is trying to lock it.
Strangely enough, no matter what the distance warped with the MJD, the result will be the same, because of the target break and the short immunity when you exit warp, and he is at speed and pre aligned. The MJD could go 1km in the direction the ship is facing, and is now totally immune to all single target warp disruptors because:
A) No longer Targetted
B) Already Aligned to a warpable location
C) At speed sufficient enough to warp
He cannot be stopped from warping off unless he's in a bubble at this point. |