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Dear CCP Fozzie, I have a couple or Navy buddies that owe me a favour and they are willing to give you are free of charge demonstration on how missiles work.

And if someone else needs a free of charge rocket demonstration, like Harvey does, I am willing to show you why you are mistaken.

What comes to mind at first? NO. Double NO. And of course HELL NO.

It is fine that you do not know the game mechanics quite as good as I do, you haven't been here long enough to see the error of your ways.

Let me elaborate. AGAIN.


When you finally give missiles back the application they once had, it will apply to all missiles. For the very, very slow, this means that defender missiles will recieve the biggest buff in the history of mankind.

If you find yourself a small missile ship gang, you can form your anti-missile gang with the same ships, just not as many and shoot most of the missiles down with rocket launcher (again for the very, very slow, you put the now freshly buffed and very, very useful defender missiles into the rocket launchers and press FONE) Caracal's.

Funny sidenote, the "friend or foe" missile has a very different name in the Air Force. They call them "fire and forget" missiles.

Now 80% of said missile gang in destroyed before the rest of your gang with beam Omens start working on them (or Zealots if you have them.)

Opponents Caracals disarmed. Fight lost.

For the capsuleers that believe something is overpowered, they should definately re-read of the definition of "overpowered". CCP made it very clear how they define something as overpowered.

A not funny sidenote, the energy neutralizer module fits into this category.

Now for the last time, missiles need to be taken seriously before you start throwing more unnecessary counters to them in the box.

And no I will not respond in kind. I hate to repeat myself over and over and over again.

You can read my esseys again if you want, I gave an explanation often enough.


On the ECM thing for Caldari there is a tiny error in the description of the ECM, which is the Caldari only sometimes get ECM. Everyone always get their ewar.

I assume they want to ensure that one ship can't do it all - switch from one type of disruption to another (turret versus missile guidance). Also, EWAR is not across the board: There are multiple type of ECM depending on the ship target type as well as damps being seperate.

Now, what would be convenient, and very over powered, would be to have one type of EWAR module and just use scripts to change what it does: damps to ECM to tracking disruption to missile guidance disruption.

BTW thanks Fozzie for including the buff to Missile Guidance Enhancers/Computers in this change. This is something I have been hoping for for some time and asking for as a result of the somewhat sudden Aegis release nerfs to these modules.

Ultimately I think 10% is going to be good enough for Missile Guidance Computers (mid slots), since this will put them very closely in line with T2 application rigs. They won't be *as* good as TPs, but they are more flexible.

Still concerned the lowslot modules, Missile Guidance Enhancers, will need more love. Current bonuses are so low that 10% will barely eke over stacking penalties. I get the feeling a 20-25% buff will ultimately be what makes them worthwhile.

In the same way that every ship currently fits a sensor damp or ECM module?

Oh wait ... That hasn't actually happened, has it?

Marech.

Damps work against all turret and missile ships, as do the generic ECM modules.

Marech.

I'd agree with the missile guidance buffs empirically because I very rarely see those modules fitted to ships when people I know in eve are linking fits for every job imaginable or creating new doctrines; it follows therefore that they are not currently powerful enough to make them worth their weight in most setups.

I also like the idea of adding missile disruption to the ECM and turret disruption modules already in eve and feel they will fit in rather well.

To all those people who said "why not just have a single disruptor and then use scripts to target missiles or guns", I would say "for the same reason there isn't one ECM module and a script for each sensor type; Because it would be overpowered." I would also point out that every new type of module in eve widens the array of combat situation, which is great for variety in the game.

I hope we will be able to request refund on SP invested into missiles since you are nerfing them to the ground with this module.

I know, but come one, that module will render missiles almost useless

m.. they are underwhelming mods atm, and having things like TP's and webs being more universal for just as good if not better at the job its very questionable they will ever be used much without nerfs too the aforementioned.

considering that missile guidance computers add speed and time with a range script, I would assume that using a range script will drop flight speed and flight time. Seems pretty strong on the range side.