:Edit: I answered a large set of questions from the thread on April 8th

Good evening ladies and gentlemen. Got some more Odyssey updates for you all, this time in the form of some module rebalancing! We're going to have a number of module balance changes released with EVE Online: Odyssey on June 4th, and our first batch to announce are the Remote Sensor Boosters and Tracking Enhancers.

Let's start with Remote Sensor Boosters. They give pretty extreme bonuses to scan res at the moment, similar to officer sensor boosters. This has contributed to the growth of instalock camps that are in our opinion are a bit too easy nowadays.
So we're gonna decrease the scan res bonuses so that they give a solid but more reasonable benefit over local boosters. We're leaving the lock range bonus of the T1 and T2 remote boosters the same since we don't see them as overpowered for that role, and actually buffing the lock range bonus from the meta remote boosters since they are currently all giving T1 meta 0 level bonuses for that stat right now.

Key stat for this change is that the best Remote Sensor Boosters will have their Scan Resolution bonus reduced from 40.5% to 33%.

Apologies for the terrible formatting (you can copypaste into a spreadsheet and it looks good)

typeNameOld ScanRes BonusNew ScanRes BonusOld LockRange BonusNew LockRange Bonus
Remote Sensor Booster I33.82833.833.8
Coadjunct Linked Sensor Array I35.42933.835
Linked Sensor Network40.53033.836
Connected Scanning CPU Uplink37.13133.837
F-23 Reciprocal Sensor Cluster Link38.83233.838
Remote Sensor Booster II40.53340.540.5
'Boss' Remote Sensor Booster I40.53333.839
'Entrepreneur' Remote Sensor Booster I40.53340.540.5


Now for TEs. It's a fairly well accepted fact that the great optimal and falloff bonuses on TEs are over the top, especially considering they can get them while also simultaneously giving decent tracking boosts. The strength of TEs has been one of the reasons for Minmatar dominance in recent years, as well as contributing to the relative strength of shield tanking over armor tanking by inflating the value of non-tank low slots. What we're looking at is simply decreasing the falloff and optimal bonuses of all TEs by 1/3, and leaving their tracking bonus intact.

Key stat for this change is a reduction in the Optimal/Falloff bonus on a T2 Tracking Enhancer from 15%/30% to 10%/20%.

NameOldFalloffNewFalloffOldOptimalNewOptimal
Azimuth Descalloping Tracking Enhancer117.45.53.7
Basic Tracking Enhancer106.653.3
Beam Parallax Tracking Program12864
Beta-Nought Tracking Mode10.575.253.5
F-AQ Delay-Line Scan Tracking Subroutines11.57.65.753.8
Tracking Enhancer I2013.4106.7
Sigma-Nought Tracking Mode I211410.57
Auto-Gain Control Tracking Enhancer I2214.6117.3
F-aQ Phase Code Tracking Subroutines2315.411.57.7
Fourier Transform Tracking Program2416128
Tracking Enhancer II30201510
Domination Tracking Enhancer30201510
Republic Fleet Tracking Enhancer30201510
Mizuro's Modified Tracking Enhancer31.52115.7510.5
Hakim's Modified Tracking Enhancer332216.511
Gotan's Modified Tracking Enhancer34.52317.2511.5
Tobias' Modified Tracking Enhancer36241812

This change will be somewhat painful for many ships that rely on TEs for range in their current fits, but we are confident that the change is necessary to establish balance between the different weapon upgrade modules.

Let me know what you think!