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new EW idea : overview jammer

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FloppieTheBanjoClown
Arcana Imperii Ltd.
#21 - 2011-12-16 16:30:25 UTC  |  Edited by: FloppieTheBanjoClown
I'd be interested in seeing this explored on Sisi, so long as there are countermeasures and a chance for it to fail. A ship shouldn't be able to be active in combat while possesing a 100% chance of...anything. And there should be substantial downsides.

Also, hiding the scorp would work right up until it started doing its job and got flagged on the overview for jamming.

And no, I do NOT think it would ever be okay to hide effects for the sake of camouflage. If you disguise your Scorpion as a Drake and then start jamming people, you SHOULD put up a red flag.

Founding member of the Belligerent Undesirables movement.
OllieNorth
Recidivists Incorporated
#22 - 2011-12-16 16:39:47 UTC
If it only worked for d-scan maybe, but, No.

PS - Those noisemakers on carriers are useless, trust me, we can always tell when you are a carrier trying to sound like a cruiser. It's like putting spinners on a minivan, you're not fooling anyone.
Zyress
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#23 - 2011-12-16 16:41:51 UTC
Another great thing which is of course completely unworkable would be jamming their coms so they can't call their corp mates for help when you jump them. CCP could jam their chat windows and in game speech but they can't jam external channels.
Cid SilverWing
Doomheim
#24 - 2011-12-17 08:47:36 UTC
If you want to stunlock people like that, uninstall EVE and go back to WoW.
RubyPorto
RubysRhymes
#25 - 2011-12-19 20:27:47 UTC
Derkata wrote:
Garr Earthbender wrote:
Mystical Might wrote:
Griznatch wrote:
No.



No.



No.

Not new either.

Bye.

"It's easy to speak for the silent majority. They rarely object to what you put into their mouths." -Abrazzar "the risk of having your day ruined by other people is the cornerstone with which EVE was built" -CCP Solomon
YuuKnow
The Scope
#26 - 2011-12-19 22:26:43 UTC
I'm a fan of EW... and even I think this is a little too powerful.

Then again... decoy measures have been with warfare since the dawn of man.... and false signals in the form of drones and ships made to look like the target, but they are really a decoy, have been apart of modern naval tatics since radars became shipbound...

I remember in Homeworld Cataclysm there were hologram frigates that could mimick destroyers/cruisers until they took too much damage.

But right now its hard to say if there is really a need for that, or if it really enhances gameplay. Bait tatics are in full use now anyway. And messing with a players overview seems a little too powerful in itself atm.
Naraish Adarn
Alexylva Paradox
#27 - 2011-12-21 09:30:49 UTC
YuuKnow wrote:
I'm a fan of EW... and even I think this is a little too powerful.

Then again... decoy measures have been with warfare since the dawn of man.... and false signals in the form of drones and ships made to look like the target, but they are really a decoy, have been apart of modern naval tatics since radars became shipbound...

I remember in Homeworld Cataclysm there were hologram frigates that could mimick destroyers/cruisers until they took too much damage.

But right now its hard to say if there is really a need for that, or if it really enhances gameplay. Bait tatics are in full use now anyway. And messing with a players overview seems a little too powerful in itself atm.


and as i recall the "mimic" Infiltration fighters (your hologram frigates) were downright useless in a fight XD sure nice for ambushing but they did way too little damage to be little more than irritation. thinking back even the ramming frigates were more usefull.

also to OP's thought

NO
river Zateki
Viziam
Amarr Empire
#28 - 2011-12-24 03:06:55 UTC
You realize you could just zoom out and manually ctrl+left click the enemy ships that look like a scropion or logistics or whatever you people shoot in fleets.
Sentry 10
Escape Velocity
#29 - 2011-12-25 23:06:38 UTC
I've seen someone name their toon "Hobgoblin I"

thats a real mindf**k in a battle
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