Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I have another balance announcement for our Odyssey 1.1 release to share: we are going to make NOS good again.

In ye old times, Nosferatu was fairly broken. It used to drain cap from your target regardless of how much cap your target had, and deposit it into your cap pool. This meant you could generate cap from thin air as long as you could target any ship. We had nano Dominixs permanently cap stable by draining some cap-dry frig and all kinds of other nonsense.

Unfortunately when this got addressed, it was nerfed into the ground by basing the success of the NOS activation off the relative PERCENTAGE of cap for each ship. NOS went from extremely overpowered to fairly useless. You can never depend on your opponent having a higher % cap than you, and especially not when you're using a ship that wants to win the cap war by neutralizing the enemy.

Our plan for this is fairly simple - we want to make successful NOS activation based on relative cap amount, not percentage.

This means if you turn on your NOS, and you have 125 cap in your cap pool, and your opponent has 370, the NOS works regardless of relative % cap.

The biggest effect here will most likely be that any time you're fighting up a class (frig vs cruiser, cruiser vs BS, etc) NOS will become a much more attractive choice. It also means that in fights with several ship sizes present, deciding on a target for your NOS should be more intuitive (target something big).

Gimme feedback o/

(PS - this would of course effect all sizes and all metas)

now you just need too make them fittable on said ships like frigates and cruisers as most of the time they cost twice as much to fit than the guns or launchers... its not so much of an issue on battleships because of the fitting requirements of guns and launchers are much closer.

I agree that a fitting change is also needed. Why do they use the same PG/grid as Neuts?

I see nasty frigate fleets coming from this
This also makes capacitor flux coils extremely powerful on a Dragoon.

Because that makes it universally better than neuts and extremely powerful for small and large ships alike.

The eternal draining of the old NOS was just one part of the problem, even with your proposed change you'd essentially be getting all the power of a neut while usually gaining cap instead of losing it.

Excellent change

If you're talking about numbers replacing percentages, would it be possible to use some different examples than 50 and 100 ?

I like how this gives capacitor flux coils a stealth buff.

You could use them to make sure ships the same size as you would always be nos'able, while increasing your cap recharge as well.

Good for shield boats that may have extra low slots.

(i still would like it though that if a frigate attacked you and you had a NOS instead of a neut on your BS that you wouldn't be completely buggered)

Sure, why not. Updated OP with some other numbers.

Minor side point to this, but if you go ahead with this, you may want to look at how it will affect PVE ships who use NOS against rats, and how you want it to affect them. I would imagine that currently, Rats always have 100% cap, but don't have an actual cap amount. Going forward, that would likely mean NOS wouldn't work at all against rats.