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Them being seperate modules means 1 of 2 things will happen.

1) everyone will use them, thus missiles will suck.

Or

2) No one uses them and everything stays how it is now.


Either way, I don't think these modules need to exist.

I personally feel that defenders need to be taken back to the drawing board instead.

Rename them point defense. No longer require a missile (or even turret hard point), are a utility high slot module, and effect the TARGET ship.
So, instead of only defending yourself, they defend whomever the target is shooting at.
This is more balanced than a defense module that will shoot any missile fired at the fleet (which has been suggested), which would also be extremely difficult to code, as the system would have to differentiate friendly vs non-friendly volleys.

Then, give certain specialty ships, like the Golem, a missile HP bonus.

I'm not fully aware of what order the math is done, but will a MTD take effect only before a missile is fired or will it shorten the range/application of a missile currently in the air?

Complicating a easy fix by not adding it to TD ...weapon disruption sounds good as suggested above just nerf the stuffing out of every ewar unless it's specialised hull (T1 or T2) or well skilled but make it easy to understand and fit and use for noobs but hard to master

This is a good point so I'll re-iterate it

drones have there own category also.

-1 from me. If there is just a script to change, TD's will be way to powerful. Choice and consequences and stuff.... ;)

This kills the missile pvp.

Little bit concerned about the double negative impact missile velocity disruption would have for the slower missiles. It seems that you'll be able to outfly missiles completly even at short range orbits.

Especially Rockets (2250 m/s base speed), Heavy assault missiles (2250 m/s base speed) and Torpedo's (1500m/s base speed) will take a big hit.

Id rather see an increase in the flight time reduction to obtain similar results

^ this should be one module with added scripts to be in line with all other ewar one mod

I think this is going to be a bad ide, particularly for battleships.

My reasoning is this. Firstly, battleships cannot afford much (if any) spare slots in the majority of PVP layouts for MGC's and MGE's. This is because most missile battleships are Caldari or derivatives, and cannot give up any mid slots. The only BS which can actually fit and would wish to fit MGC's is the Typhoon, and perhaps an armour/hull tanked Barghest.

Therefore missile disruptors, while needed to deal with RLML fit cruisers, will adversely impact battleship missile performance.

The ships which *can* fit midslot utilities are frigates and cruisers, and T3D's, and mostly this is kite-fit ships, which battleship missiles realistically have real problems applying damage to. This is because to increase damage, you need webs and paints in abundance. One missile disruptor can utterly destroy your damage application.

eg, a Raven with cruise would have 248m / 178m/s
versus, say, an Ishtar with midslot EWAR utility - speed 1388 sig 508.
Raven paper DPS is 583. Applied DPS is 125.

a 12% nerf to ER = 173 and EV = 231m/s
Raven paper DPS is 583. Applied DPS is about 108.

So...with the addition of one Missile Disruptor (unscripted) you shed a significant amount of DPS, going from "lol, Raven" to "lolol Raven" as far as the Ishtar is concerned. Now, if the ishtar pilot does the maths his two options are 30% ER script or 30% EV script.
30% nerf to EV = 91 applied DPS because it goes off sig
30% nerf to ER = 98 applied DPS

So against missile boats, if you are kitey, you'll choose sig. uh, i mean EV scripts.

in essence, a Missile Disruptor is akin to a sig radius cloak for anything fighting against missile boats. The difference with how this works as opposed to TD's is quite stark. Consider this working out of turret sig radius parameters. If you drop your sig radius below the gun resolution, tracking and optimal don't matter anymore. The same happens with missiles - you trash their application parameters enough and the applied DPS drops terribly.

Now, yes, ordinarily you would play a RPS game and counter-countermeasures, but we are talking about EVE, where fittings and spare slots are not falling out of the tree except into the laps of a lot of frigates, some AHACs, and T3D's. Very few BS have the tank or resist profiles or hull bonuses (eg, typhoon) towards application of missiles and cannot reasonably give up more and more slots to MGC's to deal with ewar.

Thus, this will really be the death knell for Ravens, Phoons and various other missile boats in PVP.

You really need to have a look at whether the weapons and ammo in the game are even capable of doing what they are supposed to do. Like, can cruiser weapons track the current cruiser sig and speed combos which exist (*cough* orthrus *cough* confessors)? Do the missiles which you can load in to weapons have the proper speed, EV and ER to apply to their intended targets? Or even their most common targets, if someone wants to trot out the "BS must shewt BS" BS - BS spend most of their time shooting cruiser sized objects.

I think that, particularly, battleship missiles are terrible at their job, unless you want to load RHML's onto your ravens and suck versus anything with a logi.