Player Features and Ideas Discussion

Ummm, this is basically how TPs work.

Basically the super quick run down version of how tracking works is it basically compares the targets transversal, to your gun transversal, then it compares the targets sig radius to your gun sig radius. So by either slowing the target down, or by blooming his sig radius, you can track the target better.

When you look at the design between TP and webs, webs are more effective, but TP have a longer range (If you only look at the tracking aspect).

But this is changed when you look specifically at the Rapier/Huginn...
1. In PVP, being able to not only track the target better, but dictating range is much more important then just tracking the target better. Also, slowing down that target as it tries to burn back to the gate, is way more effective then just blowing his sig up. Face it, these are PVP boats, not PVE.
Net Result = Webs >> TP

2. We cannot see signature radius change on our overviews because there is no setting for it (Add signature radius to the overiew). So part of it is psychological because we cannot actually see anything change on the target itself, yet when we apply a web to someone, we can physically see their velocity slow down, and their transversal velocity decrease.
Net Result = Webs > TP

3. Their webs can reach out as far as the Gallente Recons can point, which means there's no reason to pick TP over webs unless you have enough webs on the target where anymore webs won't be any realistic benefit to your fleet.
Net Result = Webs > TP

I would like to see the t2 TP moved up to a 40% signature radius bonus before skills, and everything else moved up or down in proportion to this.

Turn on the heat - your painter does 43.7 now

As others have stated, blooming a target's sig is mathematically identical to reducing the target's speed, for tracking equations. You get the same result if you reduce the target's speed by 20% as you do if you bloom the target's sig by 25% (1.25 being the inverse of 0.8). There's no bias towards velocity in the equations, nor are there any caps except the 100% accuracy cap.

Now, missiles often get more benefit from sig bloom than from speed simply because their equation is the lesser of the ratio of the sig radius to the explosion radius or the normal equation which accounts for both sig and speed. That means even if the target is dead stationary, you still won't do 100% damage to a target smaller than your explosion radius. TPs always increase missile damage up to the 100% damage cap. The same is not true for webs.

Now, I tend to agree that TPs are pretty weak, but your suggestion is 100% identical to a flat buff to their bonus.

Also, add a module/ rig that reduces your signature by some 5% and 7% (t1/t2) and suddenly people would feel the need to use the TP more.

Best way is to do like with omnidirectional tracking computers, give target painters scripts to boost them, as long as ccp dont nerf their current bonuses while implementing scripted option.
Easy to implement and could shake up the meta carefully?

+1 for target painting rigs