Yes, but it would compare the actual amounts of cap instead of percentages of the ship's full pool.

What if you made it a function instead of binary? IE it drains less and less cap the more I have over my opponents ship, so in excel the equation would look something like this:

MIN(1, TheirCap / MyCap) * BaseDrainAmount = AmountDrained

If you wanted to get really fancy, you could do a squared over squared equation to increase the penalty for having more cap than your opponents.

Thoughts?

Oh and if you need more feedback about energy warfare.

A complete overhaul of cap batteries is needed.

Which means, XL Cap batteries, fitting requirements inline with capboosters, capacitor efficiency inline with capboosters too.

As someone who loves capacitor warfare, and the Curse in particular, you and the rest of the guys working on balance changes have just made my week.

THANK YOU.

If this were combined with a fitting change to make them easier to tack on then they would probably enjoy some use and popularity but at present I can't think of that many situations where I would prefer them over a neut even with the change.

well for example, with the proposed change, if youre in a battleship with 7000 cap and you want to NOS a cruiser with 2000 cap, you need to be at < 2000 cap for your NOS to work at all right?

with my proposal, if you had 7000 cap and you were NOSing a ship with 2000 cap, your NOS would work but only at 28.5%, so instead of draining 120 cap every cycle, it would drain 34.28

this would mean you get something every cycle, and for those pilots who are really good at math, they can run some numbers and actually use this information to figure out how much cap their ship has.

The change is kinda useless.
Neut is still better because it always works, requires less CPU and you can use it on any target.

What makes Thorax ideal? It doesn't have any high's to give if I'm not mistaken.

Since you're trying to snag me out of the other thread, I'll post here for you!

I really don't have a lot to say. We aren't trying to do a full cap-war rework here. I think this change will improve NOS use significantly, and open doors for some ships that have struggled most since the nerf (Amarr recons). The fact that there is so much debate here indicates to me that its hard to say exactly what the effect will be, and I think that's good. Lets see what happens and if things get worse or stay the same, we'll make more changes.

I would also suggest a greater amount transferred between all sizes of modules. Also, the addition of a Capital sized module would be a nice touch as well.