Omega27
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Posted - 2007.06.13 21:11:00 -
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I brief summary of my thoughts on Nos and Neuts:
Purpose:
Nosferatu: Take capacitor from your enemy and add it to your own, helping to sustain tanks, weapons fire, etc. while slowly working your enemy down.
Neutralizers: Eliminating the enemies cap at the cost of your own to quickly disable his/her ship.
Current state of affairs: Nos are a universal "good" module to fit on any ship capable, as there are no drawbacks and work 100% of the time. Neuts have limited uses, as they cost cap to use while taking more fittings and otherwise doing the same job as nos.
My proposal: Change the way nos transfer cap, as opposed to "nos hardpoints" or tracking/ sig radius modifications.
Nos currently defy the laws of nature, by transferring large amounts of energy while taking none to operate. To correct this, I propose having nos run off of the enemy ship's capacitor (a remote activation cost). For example:
New Heavy Diminishing: Same range and cycle time. Now drains 220 cap with a 120 activation cost (resulting in 100 cap transferred). Medium and small nos will follow the same pattern
This does several things: It makes frigs somewhat immune to larger nos, with smaller nos being more effective (if a ship has less than 120 cap the nos will not activate). This also keeps nos fairly effective when two ships are in the same class.
Energy emissions skill should effect the nos activation cost, and a new skill be added to increase transfer amount (also effects neut amount).
So what about Neuts?
Fittings need to be brought into line, so nos and neuts have the same, or very similar, fittings. This would make it so pilots have a choice between the two modules, rather than fitting nos because a neut won't fit. Neuts now become the anti tackler mod of choice because they are guaranteed to nuke a tackler's cap after a few cycles.
Conclusion: While tha idea may not be perfect (I leave it up to CCP to deal with real stats), I find it a simple step in the right direction with nos. And for those of you that are going to whine about your curse getting nerfed or w/e, fit a neut to the damn thing (and yes, I do fly a curse).
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