EVE General Discussion

1 small neut = 6 sec cycle
6 small neuts can be spread out so there is one going off every second
the server works on 1 sec tics

If an opponent is capped out and you use 6 small neuts in 1 sec intervals can you keep a person from being able to use their low cap usage weapons? or do the weapons fall through the cracks and still get the cap they need?

cycling is always a good idea. you probably can cap out weapons but there could be still drones on field.

yes, you will even be able to turn off his damage control, wich is to my knowledge the active module requiring the less cap.

note that a proper timing on bigger neut may achieve the same.

also,6 small neut are only effective on frig and destro, maybe some cruiser if using a ship with bonuses on neuts (cruor, but you can't squeeze 6 of them so...)

First you need to understand how the capacitor recharges. There are somewhat opposing formulas and graphs for it, but they give a picture of the non-linear behaviour of a capacitor's recharge rate:

Graph 1 and Graph 2

It does not matter which of the two is right, but they both show common features. One is that the recharge rate has got a peak where the capacitor fills up very fast (at around 25%-30% and 2.5x times the average rate), and that it fills only slowly when it is almost empty and when it is almost full.

This means that when you drain a ship's capacitor very fast and with all 6 neuts down to 0 GJ will the ship's capacitor recharge very slowly. It takes a long time to get from 0% to just 10% and it recharges much faster when going from 10% to 20% or 20% to 30%.

So you really only need to neut very fast until you are sure your target is out of cap and then can use a single neut or only 2 to keep the capacitor empty, because it does not recover fast at that point.

If the targeted ship then uses any cap will it put itself back to 0 GJ and punish itself with a very low recharge rate. You do not need to fiddle around with timing 6 neuts once you understand how a capacitor recharges.

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NOS is short for Nosferatu, the energy vampires.

Some weapons need no cap at all, cannot be turned off and will do full damage. Others need very little, are hard to turn off but begin to stutter. And some need more, especially when grouped, can easily be turned off and do not do any damage.

The trick with a cap booster when neuted is to inject a cap charge and at the same time fire the MWD and get away before the newly injected cap is gone.

And yes, the idea you have with mixing neut sizes is about right. I do not know if a small neut will keep a BS's capacitor at 0 once neuted empty, but a medium will. You can test this for yourself by fitting lots of shield boosters and armor repairers onto a BS, run them and empty your cap until it is 0, and then watch how fast the capacitor recharges. You will see that it stays low for quite a while before it picks up.

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If you talk about the tristan he had a capacitor booster. So i cycled two neuts all the time. You can still see him repping from time to time but you can't really avoid that if he is a competent pilot and knows how to use cap boosters. I have 12s cap with everything turned on so i have to watch out. (sentinel has a neut amount bonus btw, so one neut is as good as two)