Quentin Decker
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Posted - 2005.11.15 08:48:00 -
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Warp core stabilizers are fine as they are.
Why? For starters, any ship fitting warp core stabilizers is already severely penalized by occupying valuable low slots that might otherwise drastically improve the set-up. For example, a battleship with a standard PvP set-up is far more likely to defeat a pilot with equal skills in the same ship that decided to eat up one or two of his slots with stabilizers. Fitting WCSs may just be your ticket to bail you out of a bad situation, but it's also risky using them at the same time - they reduce the full potential of your set-up.
Additionally, pilots that wish to evade having their ships scrambled usually have to fit multiple stabilizers to counter the often high strengths of the modules attempting to scramble them. I don't understand why a module such as the WCS - something you often have to use in numbers for them to be effective - needs to be nerfed.
When I engage in PvP, a tenth or so of the ships I'll attempt to scramble will effectively counter it. That's right, 10% of them. Now just because a ship is able to stabilize its warp drive and get away from me does not give me the right to go to the opposite extreme... and say that just because the guy I wanted to blow up got away means that WCSs need to be nerfed, killed, removed. PvPers have an effective and almost guranteed method for shutting down the warp drives of their targets, and there is absolutely no reason why the targets do not reserve the right to have an effective counter. Or at least attempt to counter. Do I like to watch my targets get away? Heck no. But it is only fair. I try to shut their warp drive down, they try to keep it online.
There is nothing unreasonable about the warp core stabilizer. Using them can nerf your own set-up, yet they offer the ability to get away from unfavorable situations, in all fairness. If you wish to remove the WCS, remove the scramblers / disruptors as well. The simple fact is, players hate to see their prey mount an effective counter to their set-ups. But that's the way it works and should work.
My two cents, take or leave it.
-JP
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