Soldarius
Deadman W0nderland
Test Alliance Please Ignore
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Posted - 2014.06.10 18:36:00 -
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Owen Levanth wrote:Meytal wrote:CCP SoniClover wrote:I, and countless other players, managed to live in w-space long before these modules existed. So them being passive is not a do-or-die issue for living there. Will their usage drop? Almost certainly, in the short run at least, but this is a change we feel is necessary for the overall balance of scanning. What about making Combat probes ignore these modules? That could accomplish your stated goal everywhere instead of just in wormhole space where cloaking is a must, while simultaneously not nerfing the Core probes. Edit 1: Ships could have a separate Core probe strength and Combat probe strength, if the modules directly affect the effective scan strength of the ship hulls. Edit 2: This could lead into additional ship bonuses: scanning bonus for PvE exploration vs scanning bonus for PvP hunting. It may shock you, but some PVPers scan down sites instead of the ships inside. If you see, for example, wrecks or even a player ship itself on d-scan, you can just move the sliders a bit to look where the ship probably sits and then... you scan down the site the player is most likely in. Then you visit him. So most PVPers could just evade this issue with special snowflake fits using core probes instead of combat probes. So the modules would still be too powerful in the eyes of CCP.
Confirming this is exactly what one does in a bomber. You really can't fit an expanded probe launcher on a bomber without completely nerfing everything else. But a core probe launcher has no such issues. This is especially useful for indirectly probing out those pesky sebo'd T3s.
Once you're on grid, look around, find a wreck or other warpable object in-line with your target, bookmark it, then warp out and back in.
Also, I was not aware there was an issue with combat probing that required CCP dev intervention.
GÇ£I personally refuse to help AAA take space from itself so it can become an even shittier version of itselfGÇ¥
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