Erutpar Ambient
The Flying Tigers
Black Core Alliance
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Posted - 2014.04.03 07:05:00 -
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First i want to preface that i believe that Effort and Experience should play a pivotal role in threat/force projection AND Risk mitigation.
That being said, I believe that there is no room for brick walls (such as a blind fold timer) that will undermine these ideas. The problem that the Sensor Overlay revamp caused a balance shift in the favor of risk mitigation was merely an oversight. There definitely should be care to not attempt a fix with a polar shift in the favor of threat/force projection.
There seems to be a history of polar shift nerfs and buffs that turn the game upside down.
Examples:
Nos nerf - went from OP to nOPe then rebalanced eventually to usable standards
Drake nerf - went from most used to most ridiculed ship
Rifter - T1 frig buff pass nerfed the rifter's comparative viability
Drone Poo Nerf - Quite literally a nerf that turned the game upside down. Drone Regions went from the most to the least valuable space.
CCP Fozzie wrote:
The delay could take a few potential forms, either a set timer of a couple minutes, a timer that has random elements or even one that is variable depending on the amount of mass that passes through the wormhole.
What you could do of course is reverse the damage done by the Sensor Overlay by a significant amount. I would suggest that K162 signatures not even show up on the Overlay until 25 to 50% of their lifetime has elapsed.
Now on the other hand, diligence should be rewarded, even if it is not in full. By that i mean, allow the signature to be detected by probes immediately upon spawn. However the scan difficulty should be great enough that it is not immediately locatable but the scan difficulty decreases constantly over the life of the wormhole and the transfer of mass.
This would, first of all, allow diligent players to have a hand in their own risk management by knowing an exit wormhole exists. However it still allows the uncertainty and danger that you want to add to the WH environment by not allowing them to find or explore it immediately.
Does this hit all bases? |