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So, after reading this I was a little bit disappointed. As an occasional low-sec roamer I see cynos mostly at gates, but the Cyno Inhibitor seems not to be designed to change that. Which situations are left where you could use it? It may be a little safeguard for small POS-, POCO-bashes, but that 's all what comes into my mind. What do I miss and what was CCPs intention when they implemented it?

Doesn't stop BLOPS booooo

afk cloakers use covert cyno, so cynoinhibitor dont work

I think, Mobile Cynosural Inhibitor must block cyno in system, otherwise its useless

If it has a 100km range, and can't be within 90km of a gate, wouldn't that mean that you can still get it close enough to a gate to stop gate cynos?

Art review: nice lightning bolt effects while active - when viewed up close.

No visual indication of the range of the effect, you just have to look at your distance from the device.
I would like to see a faint sphere, fainter than a pos force field - some kind of visual indication of the device's range.

Also: you can (currently) drop one in highsec for lol's

Just have to change your tactics a little I guess to get this to work for you. I see it more as a protector for POS's protection or destruction. Drop one of these on your Pos while your repping or killing said POS to protect your capitals.

I'm really disappointed though, I though CCP was out to help the little guy a bit. This would have been something I considered useful to small gang warfare against large gang cyno hotdrops, especially on gates. At minimum the Cyno Inhibitor should be able to be anchored 40 km from a gate not 90 km. Truthfully though it shouljd be 10km.

That's my question as well - then it might have some slight use as in start anchoring it... wait until nearly anchored, light the cyno for your fellas, block counterdrop.

Do these affect POS cyno beacons at all if in range? (Considering that system-wide jammers shut down POS beacons.)

Do they get automatically shot at by POS guns?


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Because you can't just light cyno a couple hundred km away or on another grid and warp there, amirite?

The only real use I see for these is to drop them all over the place on an active battlefield to prevent caps from hotdropping directly onto the combatants. It won't stop them from cynoing in a couple hundred km away and then warping in. But at least that will give the other guys a chance to warp a dictor to the cyno and bubble them, preventing warps.

I don't know. It change things. But I'm not really sure how much.

To answer a couple questions:

We've reduced the minimum range from gates and stations to 75km, which we think will strike a better balance between letting people cover those structures and making it too easy to protect camps. We plan on re-evaluating that range once we've seen these things in the wild for a bit. It may for instance drop to 50km at a later point.

As xttz guessed, this structures doesn't do anything to a cyno that has been lit before it finishes activating. It prevents new cynos from being lit, and if an active cyno is running within range of an activated cyno inhibitor it will not be allowed to start a second cycle.

This structure also does not prevent starbase cyno beacons from working, so you can't use it in VFK to protect capitals from their own stupidity.