Alcorak
Culpa Latas
Never Look Back
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Posted - 2014.08.25 01:32:00 -
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TL;DR: tracking disruptors are good enough as they are - this requires new anti-drone modules. Also, death to supers.
This idea seems similar to the idea of tracking disruptors affecting missiles. We neither need nor want to have one single answer to all possible DPS from any weapon ever, lest every PvP ship in EvE would fit one or even 2 of these, and everyone would armor tank to free up the mid slots to do so. Even ECM strength is divided into racial varients to prevent it from being too OP. I would, however, agree that there does need to be an EWAR module counter to drones.
I suggest at least one of the following 2 modules, which can be used to reduce enemy drone control range or bandwidth. Of course, with new modules also comes the potential for future hull bonuses:
Drone Range Inhibitor: Fittings similar to Remote Sensor Dampeners. Does not use scripts. Reduces enemy drone control range by 15-30% depending on skills/item meta, and subject to stacking penalties. By reducing control range, much like RSD's, enemy fleets can be forced into comfortable engagement range, or forced to disengage.
Drone Control Inhibitor S/M/L: Fittings similar to similar sized MWD with low cap usage, limit 1 active per ship with meta levels increasing range. Reduces enemy bandwidth by 5/10/25 Mbps. This flat-out reduces DPS. By losing control of drones, or being forced to launch smaller drones, the reduced DPS can be seen as an analog to tracking disruption.
In the interest of also impacting the power of supercaps and producing a larger role for subcaps on the field, I would also suggest allowing the large module to get through supercarrier ewar immunity. I would also suggest that all applied modules beyond 20 will reduce a super's bandwidth by 100, due to their very large total bandwidth. In this instance, 1-20 large DCI's would reduce the number of fighter-bombers controlable by 1, 21-25 by 2, 25-30 by 3, and taking 86 battleships to totally eliminate a super's ability to launch fighter-bombers (though honestly at that point, better off picking off the drones than using this ewar -so maybe tinker with these numbers a bit if this suggestion is considered valid). |