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Sentient Blade
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Posted - 2014.01.24 17:21:00 -
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Interesting information.
I wonder if it makes sense to simply remove sentry drones from the physics simulation, keep them perfectly still, and to stop sending unique per-sentry firing information to every observer above a certain TIDI factor, although clearly you would still want to show them to the person being shot at, and their owner.
Or if you wanted to make something fun... battleship-only, sustained beam projected AOE that degrades drone damagttleships being fed cap by logi chains to effectively dampen every single sentry belonging to a slowcat fleet down to about 20kme / tracking within a given radius of the target ship, say 10km. Make it require a metric ton of cap. I'd love to see formations of ba optimal. |
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
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Posted - 2014.01.25 18:46:00 -
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Batolemaeus wrote:Sentient Blade wrote:sustained beam projected AOE In a thread about server performance, you want to introduce AOE. Not sure if trolling or daft...
Implementing AOE drone tracking / optimal nerfs is an O(N) operation where N is the total number of disruption beams active and would be a significant step in balancing the slowcat / sentry meta.
In a small fleet fight nobody is going to go to the effort to deploy large cap logistics chains and dedicated drone disruption battleships, but as the size of the enemy sentry carrier / domi fleet increases, it would become more practical to dedicate fleet members to fielding them.
Hence there would be a natural counter to sentry blobs growing too big. Depending in how such a module was balanced, 5 to 10 AOE disruption beams in addition to 50+ subcap energy chain logistics ships to support them could potentially nerf a few hundred sentry carriers. |
Sentient Blade
Crisis Atmosphere
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Posted - 2014.01.25 20:03:00 -
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PinkPanter wrote:Why another crap nerf instead of fixing lag?
Just curious.
Because if you "fixed lag" all they'd do is bring in more carriers and launch another 2000 drones until it did crash again? |
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