Player Features and Ideas Discussion

What I find also a joke, a bad bad joke, is if this crap about making modules able to be overheated, then why was the Drone Nav Computer also not nerfed...I mean, changed to a non-passive module, with wrecked..I mean "balanced" stats, to make drone speeds "highly competitive with other weapon systems".

I mean, my god, warriors can go faster than torpedo's.....that will never do.

This was simply a direct attack against the effective DPS of Gardes in non range-bonused hulls, and does nothing to truly impact on the 1000 Domi doctrine. But it sure as hell puts a huge dent in the PvE capabilities of mission runners and anom runners who don't use Ishtars and Domi's.

It's annoying for us with Domis and Ishtars, too. I used warping in at range to help mitigate some of the damage I took. Now, I have to warp in closer. I guess it just slows things down now that I have to use Bouncers or Wardens, which CCP is happier with. I am, though, quite unhappy at how I can't figure out the new optimal range in game. That's quite a stupid mistake to make.

BTW, you know how when you use a tracking computer, you can move your cursor over the module and it will tell you how much the module and its script is improving a trait? Why can't it do that for the omnidirectional link now?

And you ruined federation navy omnidirectional link totally. 53 mil is not worth 1% difference between tech II module ( 1mil cost on market. )

I have 3 in ship and its worst than ratting in dreadnought... i think they even dont work... somebody should bash
up Fozzie to death... seriously and his boss too... i realy sometimes wonder where CCP hiring people who can devolution game...

THIS so hard. The omni change nerfed 25% of my range and 25% of my tracking, forcing me from 180km to 130km. And, you know what, I'll be f***ing fine. I still have better projected DPS than some marauders in my t1 BS.




However, what I AM a bit confused about is the relatively heavy nerf to FedNav Omnis. Right now they only give a 1% opt and 2% falloff bonus when scripted over t2. They do give an extra 5% tracking over t2 when scripted for that. Why can't we have a better optimal boost on the FedNavs, considering tracking was what most people were claiming was OP about sentries in the first place?

I haven't checked this to be sure but my guess is the faction gun tracking mods Fozzie copied the stats from are 1%/2% better than T2.

I expect this will be the long thread

Hello again! This thread will cover the overhaul to Omnidirectional Tracking Links that we are planning for Rubicon 1.1 in conjunction with the Overheating Iterations.

I advise reading the Heat Iterations post before this one.

TL:DR is that we are making Omnidirectional Tracking Links work like Tracking Computers. They will become active modules that can be scripted and overheated, and their bonuses will be as strong as equivalent Tracking Computers.

The fact that this decreases the overall power of Omnis (especially for gaining optimal range) is intended.

Sentry drones are obviously one of the more discussed weapon systems in the EVE community right now. This is not the only change we will ever make to drone mechanics, but it is a change we believe will improve the game balance.
Sentries are a weapon system with strong upsides and strong downsides, which is one of the best things about them from a design perspective. We do not want to homogenize them with other weapon systems. The downsides of Sentries, foremost of which are immobility and destructibility, require the weapon system to have strong upsides as compensation. However we believe that the best primary method to balance the upsides of Sentry Drones is through the drones themselves, rather than by giving them access to a weapon upgrade that is so clearly superior to competing modules.

The results of this change for Omni balance are that pilots will now need to choose between having excellent range bonuses and excellent tracking bonuses. Like Tracking Computers Omnis will now provide stronger bonuses to tracking than to range.
Omnis will now provide a bonus to falloff instead of just optimal range, for the first time increasing the utility of sentry falloff in people's value judgements.

The Omnis will keep their same fitting requirements (a bit higher than TCs), will have a 10s duration, and will enjoy significantly lower cap use (4 cap per activation) compared to Tracking Computers. They will use exactly the same scripts as Tracking Computers and Remote Tracking Computers.

We believe that with these changes Sentry Drones will still be very viable and popular weapon systems, and that the results will be a better set of choices for players to make when fitting and flying.
As I said above, these are not the only changes that we will ever make to Sentry Drones, so to assume that this means we won't be willing to touch them again sometime in the future would be a mistake.

These changes will be live on SISI very soon for your testing, and we as always thank you in advance for your constructive and useful feedback.

Thanks!

With a 10 second activation time, it does not auto repeat. It is a pain to constantly having to turn it on during the fight. Wish that alone would be changed.