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Posted - 2014.11.02 12:07:35 -
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Half asleep idea, possibly terrible, bear with me 
Target Painters have a couple of obvious, oft mentioned problems
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- They're not really that useful (for guns in particular) unless there's an unusually large disparity between weapon size and target
- Because they affect a stat that the pilot can't directly control during a fight, there's no interesting/realistic gameplay around countering them in the way TD/Damps offer
Proposing that in addition to increasing the target's effective Sig Radius, TPs should also decrease the target's effective (but not actual) speed for weapons calculations.
(numbers pulled out of my arse for example purposes)
So for example a 150m sig ship going 1000m/s might become a 180m sized ship, still actually travelling at 1000m/s but being tracked as if it were moving 800m/s.
Helps gun tracking, helps missiles, fits in nicely with Minmatar's racial theme.
To the second issue, particularly in light of this extra buff, they should perhaps work entirely in fairly sharp falloff. This allows an actual counter through clever pilotting and again kinda sits nicely with the Minmatar flavour.
To clarify the actual numbers are way beyond me and my Fisher Price calculator but I dunno, interesting idea?
Travelling at the speed of love.
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Brutor Tribe
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Posted - 2014.11.02 13:00:33 -
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Harvey James wrote:i think it comes back too webs being so powerful .. why use a TP on a rapier when you could have webs reaching 60km?
You're right but that doesn't really answer why the Vigil/Bellicose TP bonus is so widely ignored. Fixing TP in comparison to 60km webs seems impossible but that's the same TD>Neuts, Damps>Scrams.
In the end you have to take Webs/Neuts/Scrams out of the equation and fix racial ewar on their own merits.
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Posted - 2014.11.02 14:49:48 -
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Forgive my math because, well, just do but isn't that only true if the suggested module reduced speed and increased sig by the same %? If it were biased towards say the speed aspect wouldn't that then make it more effective against certain targets than a flat buff to TPs?
As I say I just pulled the numbers out my arse because brighter people than me create the game but that's how I read that scary formula, perhaps I'm wrong?
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Posted - 2014.11.02 18:21:51 -
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Thankyou for the baby steps, colour this pointless.
Travelling at the speed of love.
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