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"Ships with existing bonuses to Neut/Nos Optimal Range will receive a 2nd half strength bonus to Falloff"
For Geddon it will be 5% for skill lvl, so 12,5 km falloff.

It definitely seems like officer neuts are getting hit rather hard here; both in terms of effective neuting capability at current ranges where they're an important defensive tool for capitals and relative to the (presumably) far more prevalent deadspace variants. Is there any possibility of a decreased cycle time or something to distinguish the officer modules? 10 less CPU and 9% more neut power seem like a very small benefit over other variants as compared to that enjoyed smartbombs or tackle modules over their non-officer counterparts.

they tried that on the first round of tiericide, we didn't like it very much. they took the "arbalest" out of the compact light missile launcher. and later added it back. as someone else said searching unstable gives all the meta 4 neuts, being able to search like that is a good thing imo. or searching for 100mm for all 100mm plates, or 100mn for all 100mn afterburners.

however I do think the flavor and description names should go on the outside of the name so "heavy energy neut" will search for ALL heavy energy neuts, and not skip over the meta 1 variants. they seem to be pretty inconstant with that overall.

Interesting........

I think the scoped versions should have the same range as the T2. The T2 has already has a big advantage in terms of the extra cap drain, and so it wouldn't hurt giving the scoped version a little extra range.

Apart from that this looks like it will make cap ewar fights a lot more fluid due to the fact they can be activated at any range now. I really like the overall concept.

Something something were is my 42.0km optimal X-type nos?

I hate you CCP

I only have used the small/medium NOS/Neuts and with these changes it just looks like apart from the new deadspace modules there will be an overall reduction in effectiveness.

All they have done is split the overall range into Op and falloff and reduced base neut amount. This is just a nerf to overall effectiveness.

e.g.

Current unstable power fluct (Meta4) neut: 6.3km range 54GJ - 100% effective unto that range
New Infectious scoped neut : Optimal 4.5km and fall off of 2.25km so total range seems better at 6.75km however it only neuts 50GJ and at 6.3km it would be the equivalent of 80% or 50GJ = 40GJ neutralised. I don't see how this is anything but a nerf to the small neutraliser range.

The new DED modules however are great but I can't see them being that common.

Unless I have my maths wrong (quite possible) this just seems a nerf to standard neut combat. At least for smalls and mediums.

Are neuts THAT powerful to require a nerf to balance them?

Cool changes, so when are you releasing the new capless laser turret stats or the new capacitor demand on air conditioners and artilleries?

Oh and while we are at it, when can we see the Curse and Pilgrims new powergrid stats with those "changes"?

Did someone else also ever got confused that the only class of ships that can fit medium deadspace nos's are battleships and up?

And why would enyone ever want to fly anything else but an aircondition boat after this?

Sure the small missle pirate faction boat that gets neuted and scramed and missile deactived from 1000AU away. So no more missiles in 2016?

So it will be an almost awesome sentry drone and aircondition online in farmville-lands online. Yeay??

Why does CCP insist on homogenizing all the faction variants? They really ought to take a lesson from the shield extender and armor plate playbook and given different properties to different faction nos' and neuts. Blood raider ones should obviously nos/neut the most at the cost of increase powergrid etc etc.

There are plenty of other modules which are completely ignored because they are identical to a cheaper variant. Differentiation will re-invigorate disenfranchised faction mods.

If they are within optimal range they will be 100% effective.