Aria Jenneth
Caldari
Omerta Syndicate
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Posted - 2007.05.27 17:32:00 -
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Okay, all, not to sound insensitive, but ...
What the hell are you people smoking?!
Speaking as a covert ops specialist, I cannot wait. I've wanted to probe and be probed while cloaked for months, and finally CCP will follow through on their declared plan to let it happen. Glee!
First off, this isn't much of a nerf to Buzzards, Falcons, etc (and yes, I'll happily look into purchasing them, if you lot are selling cheap). These are already The. Very. Hardest. Ships. In. The. Game. To. Probe.
If you're looking for my Falcon while I'm safespotted, or, better still, spying on you, the two words I have for you are "good luck." It's got a cruiser signature and better sensor strength than any given battleship, making it bloody difficult to track down. If the devs choose to have cloaks partially interfere with probing efforts, so much the better. Furthermore, I can stack my Buzzard's lowslots with backup sensor arrays and make the little thing even harder to find.
This isn't even counting the fact that I can just align to a sun safespot, warp out if you turn up nearby (most likely without you even knowing I've done so), and leave you to search fruitlessly for where in that grid I might be.
No, the people for whom this is actually a nerf are people who want to make their huge, slow battleships unfindable, usually ratting in NBSI 0.0, then just safespotting, cloaking, and going AFK if someone enters the system. Never mind that you can make probing an exercise in frustration by warping from safe to safe to safe if you think you're being probed, these folks make catching them while they're hunkered down in a system the next thing to impossible. It's an "I win" button for nullsec ratters, and those aren't supposed to exist.
Good frigging riddance.
I, for one, have no desire to just safely go AFK in space for hours on end with impunity, and besides, it's not as though (without probes), my covops or recon can be located or even identified. It's also not as though you can confirm your range to a cloaked ship, so you're not going to be using very strong probes, at least initially. And finally, it's not as though you'll be able to tell whether a cloaked ship is in the probe's range or not if it doesn't find anything in a given scan.
Profound frustration, anyone? It looks at this point as though tracking down a single cloaked recon cruiser would take, potentially, hours, and that's if it stayed in one place, which would be, frankly, stupid.
Enough. This is a paper tiger, lacking either growl or bite ... at least, unless you're trying to hide your CNR from my Buzzard. Then, perhaps, you may have reason to whine.
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