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Friends, pilots, capsuleers, lend me your ears! Today we're ready to discuss a new module that we are planning on
releasing in our March patch.

I'm excited to see how you creative pilots take advantage of them, esp solo/small gang BS pilots who should
get a lot of value from them. The Stasis Grappler module is a new class of web that has high strength, low optimal
and high falloff. It will be the first webifier-type module to use falloff, which will reduce the strength of the web as
the range increases. This module can only be fit onto BS and Caps, and just one per ship. It's seperate from
existing Stasis Webs, and doesn't get bonuses from any web-specific bonuses (so no range bonus on Bhaalgorns or
strength bonus from Vindicators, and no benefit from gang links).

The current planned stats are 1km optimal and 8km falloff for Tech 1, and 10km falloff for T2. Strength is extremely high, running from -80% on T1, -85% on T2, up to -88.75 on high-meta officer.

We don't intend these modules to completely replace normal webs for Battleship use. Instead, they'll provide a very strong option when your fit and playstyle matches their advantages, while still leaving a solid niche for normal webs at longer distances.

The overheating of this module impacts optimal (not falloff) with a whooping 300% bonus, increasing optimal range from 1km to 4km.

Here's the stats we currently have planned. Of course everything here is subject to change based on feedback from all of you. This module is scheduled for our March release (not the February release coming next Tuesday) so there'll be plenty of time for testing it out on SISI and providing feedback.

:Edit: After hearing your feedback we've decided to keep officer webs in the standard stasis webifier category rather than converting them into grapplers. We'll leave the officer slots for these new modules open for now, with the option of adding new officer grapplers down the line if the interest is high enough.

Thanks for the feedback so far and keep it coming! :Edit:

TypeName                     CapNeed  Duration  CPU   PWG Overheat%  SpeedFactor Optimal  Falloff  MetaLevel
Heavy Stasis Grappler I            4    2000    25    200    300    -80           1000    8000     0
Heavy Compact Stasis Grappler      4    2000    20    160    300    -82.5         1000    8000     1
Heavy Scoped Stasis Grappler       4    2000    25    200    300    -82.5         1000    9000     1
Heavy Enduring Stasis Grappler     2    2000    25    200    300    -82.5         1000    8000     1
Heavy Stasis Grappler II           5    2000    30    220    300    -85           1000    10000    5
Faction 1 Stasis Grappler          4    2000    25    130    300    -87           1000    11000    8
Faction 2 Stasis Grappler          4    2000    20    160    300    -86           1000    12000    8

Here's a graph showing how the falloff works for these new modules.
[img]http://cdn1.eveonline.com/www/newssystem/media/67557/1/WebsVsGrapplers.jpg[/img]

This is a great module that will help solo and small gang battleships greatly against the Svipul menance.

Also solo tracking dreads))

I support this as a buff to battleships.

Aze For CSM

Looks good so far, will have to bust out EFT to have any more comments

+1

Duration of 2000s?

Can't wait to see what I can do with this on Solo BS fits.

Midslot.


2000ms, or 2s.

looking at this i like it would like if the hic could also get it

At optimal+1x falloff, they are half of full strength.

It sounds like a cool module, but why convert current officer webs? The current Meta 11 Officer Web has better stats than the Meta 17 Grappler.