EVE General Discussion

Yeah. Tracking disruption, sensor dampers and target painters don't work by chance like ECM. I think they are reduced to half effectiveness at falloff, though? Fit a tracking computer to counter. It's guaranteed to work, unlike ECCM

Oh, NPCs? Their EWAR works differently to players. I think they work in cycles - sometimes they'll just turn off their EWAR. I don't know how that changed with the new AI, but I do know that NPC tracking disruption was 'fixed' in the patch

This is somewhat incorrect.

* The affect of all EWAR is always applied at full strength.
* Operating past optimal in falloff reduces the the chance of the affect being applied.
* ECM suffers an additional chance of not being applied.

You can tell when a cycle succeeds or fails by looking for the effect timer on the target.

Example: A target painter will fail a noticeable amount past optimal + 50% falloff.

Oddly enough, it seems npc ewar in general has flipped upside down. Prior to Retribution, damps, jams, tp, and td had all worked by chance (would occasionally miss cycles) while webbing and scramming would either happen or not (if the rat doesn't initially web/scram you, he never will). Now, it's the other way around, although ewar-other-than-tackle always lands and perma while webbing and scramming occassionally misses cycles. The problem is that since most missions now auto-aggroes the whole room upon landing, things like damps and td's make turret boats like the Paladin that I just trained up for nearly worthless (pulses and tachyons both miss alarmingly high even at best ranges, and that's with twin serpentis tc's running tracking scripts, a +5% tracking speed imp). Took me over ten minutes to finally kill one tracking disrupting cruiser and then I had three more to go. Drones are now vulnerable, though with enough care they can still be quite usefull...if slowly. Did CCP just turn a bunch of mission boats into dps-gimped drakes? Does anyone by chance know are Golems and other missile boats are holding up?

I don't mind playing team in level fours at all but it kind of takes the sandbox concept out of the game considering my missle friends can still hold up fine.