Originally by: Liang Nuren

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Edited by: Liang Nuren on 25/01/2008 21:24:04

Originally by: Hannobaal

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Boost the other EWar drones.

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The main problem with the other ewar drones is that the attribute that they're affecting is stacking penalized. Thus, only three damp drones are useful, only three tracking disruptor drones are useful, three webbie drones, and only three target painting drones are useful.

The obvious solution is to 'boost' those drones strength individually so that, when stacking penalized, the five of them are roughly equivalent to the effect you see from five ECM drones of the appropriate size.

However, sensor damp drones and tracking disruptor drones would become 'overpowered', because they still affect both attributes - while ECM drones would still scale better. No matter how many of the other types of ewar drones you throw at someone, you'll really only get the effect of about 3-4 of them. Thus, 500 light ECM drones are infinitely better than 500 heavy damp/td drones.

The next 'obvious' solution would be to add together all the drones that are trying to ecm someone in a specific time period, stacking penalize them, and apply them together at the same time.

The obvious problems with that is that your drones would sit there in space for some random amount of time before doing anything at all, each cycle from the drones would be individually harder to resist, and clever timing of releasing drone waves might exacerbate said problem.

Or we could just accept that ECM drones are exceptionally good at what they do (which is the best solution by far), and that they scale better than other ewar drones (which is true with regards to ECM and other forms of ewar anyway).

I think, overall, that I'm still a fan of making 5 ECM drones roughly equivalent to 5 <insert ewar type here> drones of the same size - but I don't think that it will really change anything.

ECM is simply that much better (natively) than the other forms of ewar.

-Liang

Ed: All of this to say, yes, we should boost other types of ewar drones, but there are ramifications for boosting them and/or nerfing ECM drones.

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