Ships & Modules

Dear CCP,

lets buff a mod! Lets remove the "enemy ship capacitor has to be below your own" stat for these mods to work. The cap limit and amount nerf to these mods were nuclear!

Removing the limit but maintaining the amount nerf would work just fine. It would boost active tanking, while not making neuts obsolete. Neuts would still be massively better for offensive cap warfare.

Wild

Incidentally, does someone have a link/quote of a CCP statement where the reasoning for this particular approach to nerfing Nosferatus is explained?

If NOS's didn't have this "nerf" they would essentially be neuts.....that didn't require any cap to use....oh and also recharged your own cap in the process.

Lets take for example a bhaalgorn with its bonus to cap warfare can you imagine how powerful it would be with NOSs that can completely drain your opponents cap? People would fit 7 NOS Bhaals able to permarun MWD webs and other EWAR without having to be fed cap by another ship. All whilst still accomplishing its purpose as a cap eraser.

I do agree that NOS's are pretty much useless on anything other than frigs, but removing that effect and essentially making it a neut isn't the way to fix them.

I remember DomiNos.
The thing was OP, I'm not contesting that. What I don't know is why they took this particular approach to nerfing it.

But thanks for the link. It allowed me to find the blog, even if the info provided is scant.

Yes, let's do something about them. At least with T2 variant.

Fix Nos inside its current mechanic, rather than turning it into a self-fueling neut.

It works by percentages already.


One idea I've had is to just shorten the cycle time (and nerfing the drain amount to compensate) of the not-small Noses to be more in line with that of the small one. Small Noses work because they usually give you a steady enough supply of cap to keep your point running even under neut pressure. Heavy Noses just aren't reliable enough to keep anything going.

I guess there are a few cases where you would rather get one big cap dump from your nos (such as immediately after your opponent's neut has cycled), but with Noses not more reliable than they are (you can get no cap from a Nos cycle if the opponent's MWD or whatever decided to cycle at a bad time), that particular niche is and should IMO remain the territory of cap boosters. Increasing the granularity of the cap gain should make it much easier to use.

Neuts are obviously different. There you want to alpha away people's cap. You don't want to alpha with Nos.

Only small ones for tackler frigs, against neuts, and that's because they don't get hit by the "target must have more cap than yourself" restriction.

In other words, nos is only useful when the restriction that normally kills it doesn't apply.