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ISD LackOfFaith
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Posted - 2014.09.24 15:40:00 -
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ISD LackOfFaith
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ISD LackOfFaith
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Posted - 2014.09.24 15:52:00 -
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Speaking of on-topic:
My understanding is that, in concept, activating your weapons is supposed to confer a minute of "vulnerability", in which you can theoretically be made to face consequences. Hence, the weapons timer. If the bastion module did not cause any sort of timer, the time after activating your weapons would have much, much reduced "vulnerability", hence CCP Fozzie's comment on powerful docking games. To prevent this and preserve the "minute of vulnerability", the bastion module was instead changed to itself cause a weapons timer, counting down from its deactivation. This comes at the cost of penalizing those who would like to use the bastion module purely defensively by not letting them use it in a situation where they are waiting to dock or jump. That's a known consequence, intended by CCP Fozzie (as per his post) to prevent powerful docking games.
Does that answer the question?
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ISD LackOfFaith
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Posted - 2014.09.24 16:16:00 -
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Queen Elarik wrote:ISD LackOfFaith wrote:[...]
Does that answer the question? Somewhat, but why not make the timer start when you deactivate the BM? IMO 119 seconds is too long for someone that chooses to disengage and dock or jump. Assuming they will be webbed and scrammed the second it goes offline they will have no other choice. FYI: I hate docking games and only use it for running level IV's.
You mean make the timer start when you click it again to make it end at the end of the cycle? That is equivalent to not causing a weapon timer at all, since anyone looking to abuse it will just double-click it, leading to, at worst, being able to dock 1 second after the BM turns off. It also leaves an open question as to what happens when someone has the auto-cycle option turned off on the BM. Perhaps I misunderstood though.
ISD LackOfFaith
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ISD LackOfFaith
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Posted - 2014.09.24 16:26:00 -
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Queen Elarik wrote:This thread reaffirms what I've known all along.
1) Trolls will be trolls.
2) CCP does whatever it wants and doesn't give two-***** about people's opinions.
Clean it up, close it out and stick it where the sun don't shine!
As you wish. Thread locked.
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