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Dean Bowden
Gallente
legion industries ltd
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Posted - 2008.02.15 11:47:00 -
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Having a hictor with a cloaking device is a great way catch ships and filter out ships that are too difficult. Since deploying a hictor bubble is all most instant and isn't effected by the cloak you can catch what ever your after with little risk.
My problem with this is that any other ship class's main role would be impeded including covert ops ships still have to counter act the scan res penalty. In the case of hictor they can still do there main function without problem.
I think there should be delay between de-cloaking and bobble deployment. The cpu load the clock places on the ship slows down activation of other modules because of the computer stress.
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Wet Ferret
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Posted - 2008.02.15 11:51:00 -
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Edited by: Wet Ferret on 15/02/2008 11:51:23
Have you tested this to be sure?
Apparently offensive modules aren't supposed to be useable during the "sensor recalibration" time. I think that a warp disrupt probe should fall under that category. (As well as HIC bubbles)
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NoNah
Tenth Legion Holdings
Tenth Legion
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Posted - 2008.02.15 12:08:00 -
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Wouldn't this affect interdictors and smartbombing ships aswell?
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Skyr
ECP Rogues
The Reckoning.
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Posted - 2008.02.15 15:00:00 -
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The problem is that in order to stay cloaked you have to be a certain distance from gate, which given the gate size means that you are about 6k minimum from real center of the gate. Popping a bubble this was from center doesn't guarantee you catch everyone. So lots of people will get lucky and slip by.
Additionally, anybody already in warp to the gate will not get caught in the bubble since the bubble needs to be up before target activates their warp drive for it to work.
Anyway, that's right, similar to interdictor sphere launcher, it can be activated immediately after decloak.
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Ralara
Caldari
D00M.
Triumvirate.
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Posted - 2008.02.15 16:47:00 -
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 Originally by: NoNah
Wouldn't this affect interdictors and smartbombing ships aswell?
It does affect normal interdictors (or doesnt, depending on what you meant by that).
a normal dictor and decloak and drop a bubble straight away.
A normal dictor can drop a bubble and cloak straight away.
A normal dictor can sit on a gate, initiate a JUMP and THEN drop a bubble ;-)
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Posted - 2008.02.15 18:41:00 -
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Originally by: Skyr
The problem is that in order to stay cloaked you have to be a certain distance from gate, which given the gate size means that you are about 6k minimum from real center of the gate. Popping a bubble this was from center doesn't guarantee you catch everyone. So lots of people will get lucky and slip by.
Additionally, anybody already in warp to the gate will not get caught in the bubble since the bubble needs to be up before target activates their warp drive for it to work.
Anyway, that's right, similar to interdictor sphere launcher, it can be activated immediately after decloak.
I've played around with cloaking on gates, and I have to say that if you place your ship properly, you can cloak close enough to the gate that you will catch everything in a skilled HIC bubble. Your really not that far away from most gates, 2,500m's and gates 0m "Area" isn't as bad as a station.
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