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Ariya Arnaud
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Posted - 2006.11.11 15:30:00 -
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Right...
Jamming turrets is fairly easy. Just lock a few tracking disruptors and you are good to go.
Missiles - harder, but doable. Breaking the enemy target lock is the critical point here. Can't shoot what you can't target. ECM and sensor dampers are the bread and butter modules I guess.
What about drones?
If I hit the enemy with dampers and stay out of range - sure, I'll have a drone free environment - but if he manages for a split second to target me, and send his drones: then what?
As far as I can recall from PvE - the drones keep attacking even if you unlock the target they are engaging. Assuming this works the same way in PvP - ECM and dampers will be virtually useless against a drone swarm.
Burst? What happens if I set of a burst in the middle of th drone cloud? Will they stop attacking? Will they be disabled?
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Lilani Kuzma
Gallente
Brass Monkeys Society
The SUdden Death Squad
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Posted - 2006.11.11 15:47:00 -
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hmmmm u go into a fight with a dominix.. u lock it fast and jamm it and u think u are safe becose he didn`t lock u.... WRONG>..... he let`s his drone`s out... and they come atack u.... Have a nice death..
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Ariya Arnaud
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Posted - 2006.11.11 16:19:00 -
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Point on the drone auto-attack...
Doesn't really answer the questions though. :) Anyone know?
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Tatzlwurm
Amarr
TYRANTS
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Posted - 2006.11.11 16:22:00 -
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Maybe the fact that u can destroy drones is good enough, u cant destroy turrets, u can fit a smartbomb and that would waste the enemies drones... or just attack them with ur guns/drones urself.
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Ariya Arnaud
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Posted - 2006.11.11 17:35:00 -
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After a test, I can now state that an ECM burst - while clearly technically capable of overpowering the drone sensors - have absolutely no effect at all. It's like the ECM burst isn't even active.
Curious.
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Sir Drake
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Posted - 2006.11.11 17:46:00 -
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 Originally by: Ariya Arnaud
After a test, I can now state that an ECM burst - while clearly technically capable of overpowering the drone sensors - have absolutely no effect at all. It's like the ECM burst isn't even active.
Curious.
AA
ECM burst works but it only makes the drones loose their lock on you.
As these little bugger are pretty fast and ECM burst doesnt jam them for 20 sec like standart ecm, they instantly lock back on you. 
I dont think its meant to work like that but hasnt been changed for a very long time.
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Ariya Arnaud
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Posted - 2006.11.11 18:12:00 -
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We didn't see the drones lose lock, but then again, the attacking mothership did have her lock on me during the entire trial.
You think that if I manage to ECM/Dampen the mothership until it loses lock, a burst will then be effective on the drones?
This of course is mostly an intellectual excercise at this point, as the number of EW moduels needed to disble the drones for just seconds probably isn't worth the effort.
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trap
Caldari
Caldari Provisions
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Posted - 2006.11.11 18:55:00 -
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Edited by: trap on 11/11/2006 18:57:10
motherships are completely immune to EW so sticking dampners on them wont do a thing.
at least there not supposed to
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Ariya Arnaud
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Posted - 2006.11.11 19:12:00 -
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I'm using the term mothership loosely here. I'm not speaking about capital ships, but rather cruisers and battleships that are drone carriers. I keep forgetting there's a capital ship class with this name these days.
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Sir Drake
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Posted - 2006.11.11 20:31:00 -
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Originally by: Ariya Arnaud
We didn't see the drones lose lock, but then again, the attacking mothership did have her lock on me during the entire trial.
You think that if I manage to ECM/Dampen the mothership until it loses lock, a burst will then be effective on the drones?
This of course is mostly an intellectual excercise at this point, as the number of EW moduels needed to disble the drones for just seconds probably isn't worth the effort.
AA
No, that wont help.
The drones lock is independent from the ship they started from.
Once the drones have chosen their target you can only destroy them or get out of their control radius to get rid of them.
Drones have a locking time of less than a second (at least from my observation) and after loosing their lock they instantly lock again.
ECM burst works best vs tacklers or other close range ships to break their lock and allow you to warp away (or something like that).
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mazzilliu
Caldari
Sniggerdly
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Posted - 2006.11.11 20:43:00 -
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just one smartbomb does it
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Audri Fisher
Caldari
The Keep
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Posted - 2006.11.11 20:50:00 -
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Originally by: mazzilliu
just one smartbomb does it
by the time a single large smartbomb has killed just one flight of heavy drones, you are already in a pod most of the time.
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