Ships & Modules

I've heard that they are underwhelming. I will be training for Gallente recon and would like to hear from others

this and target painters as well.

Painters are ok...not great, but functional. I notice a difference when I'm firing at ships one size-tier below the appropriate size for the missiles I'm using (i.e. Cruise missiles vs. BC's). Beyond that - gotta pack at least 2 to notice a difference.

Nonetheless, they serve their purpose and they do so in at least a serviceable fashion.

Damps are good against the following ships:

-Interceptors

That is all.

In theory, with the Arazu you can point from, what, 40k with just ship command skills? You could probably damp a cruiser or an overconfident BS with a close-in setup down below that as well.

But yeah, for general use they're not very good on un-bonused ships.

They could be buffed up to 150% of their current strength and be good. The problem is that either you have enough damp to render the target useless (like an ECM on crack) or don't have enough damp to render the target useless (in which case the damps are completely pointless).

Against 90% of ships, even a dedicated recon ship can't damp more than 1 target effectively. A non-recon damp ship can't damp anything effectively.

Load the scan resolution script, damp logis and suddenly you have a lot more effective alpha.

You can also grief a lone BS with keres/arazu/lach by keeping it damped down to less then 30km targeting range while having +30km disruptor.
So yeah damps have some uses but all in all they could be less situational as it is they are mostly useless against anything that is medium sized with MWD fitted, unless the dampening ship has buddies with him.

the problem with damps pre stacking/scripting nerfs was they were op... everyone used them including your grandma...

imo ships like the arazu/lach could get the bonus upped to like 7.5% effectiveness per lev...

but i would like to see damps also decrease max targets... so one tech I damp on an unbonused ship will reduce max target by 0.5 and a tech II by 1

then on a bonused ship tech I = 1 tech II = 1.5

this could make gal ewar pretty interesting as you would have less targets to choose from plus would make logi pilots job even harder...

plus it would make the current rock paper scissors game we have more interesting...

edit plus it would make the low slot sensor enhancer usefull as it add max locked targets which would be imune to the sensor damp so you could atleast target two ships...

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