EVE General Discussion

I searched around and I'm surprised that a topic on this hasn't been made already, but one of the things announced in the modules presentation was the concept of a target breaker module. Here is a quick run down of how it works:

Each time the module cycles, it has a % chance to break and reset all other target locks on your ship from other ships. This % chance is extremely low, but for each additional ship that locks your own ship, the target breaker has a bigger % chance of breaking and resetting everyone's lock on you. So if you're fighting one person, chances are the module will have negligible effect. If there are 200 people in a massive fleet fight targeting you, then you're likely to almost always reset their locks.

This sounds like it will have a huge impact on major fleet fights. It will become extremely impractical to fight by just primarying one target. My only concern is that capital ships should be excluded from fitting this module or have a capital variant with much lower percent chance. Edit: Confirmed that capitals cannot use this module.

I'm excited. What does everyone else think?


Edit:

I had some people ask what other modules were mentioned at the presentation. Here are the ones I remember (note, not all was set in stone). Feel free to discuss them as well in this thread.

- Microjump drives (warps you 110km in the direciton you're facing after a spool up time, warp disruption prevents their use)
- Tactical Mobile Jump Disruptor (anchorable bubble that prevents use of microjump drives in a very big radius, 48 km I think)
- Salvage drones
- modules that increase drone damage
- extreme rigs (gives a much higher boost to a stat but also a much higher penalty, specifically the presenter mentioned the possibility of a 75% targetting range increase rig for frigates to open more possibilities for small sniping ships)
- adaptive hardeners (gives +resists all across the board but much less than an invulnerability field, these resists adapt to incoming damage with each cycle and increase the resist in the categories of damage you've recently taken and decrease resists in other areas to compensate)
- fuel shield booster (this shield booster uses fuel from your cargohold instead of capacitor, "cargohold tanking" anyone? sounds good for mining/hauling ships)
- changes to cap batteries (they now have a % stackable chance to reflect enemy nos and neuts against the enemy ship)
- Defender Missiles were acknowledged as being broken, no changes specifically announced
- Orbital bombardment module (kind of obvious)

There were also possible changes to the meta-level system announced. CCP wants to make it so that higher meta doesn't necessarily always equal more raw overall power (though for some variants like pirate or navy still could) but instead offers a very different role. For example imagine a higher meta microwarpdrive with much less cap usage but less speed boost. Same overall mechanics but a very different end result when it comes to fittings.

There might have been some other ideas mentioned there but that is all I have from memory.

My first thought is that large long engagements are now going to be large really, really long engagements.

Mr Epeen

We already have this, it's called ECM Burst.

Edit:
Oh and, the ECM Burst also has a higher chance
of breaking locks when more ships locked you,
simply because there are more ships ...

anti blob module?

<3 !

An interesting concept. Done right it would ruin alpha fleets and bring back the roles of the older days. Done wrong and it will make some targets practically invincible.

Fine line between the two.

The announcer at the presentation didn't state it directly, but he made it sound like other ships currently in the process of locking you count too (which, imho, would be a necessity if this is to work properly).

Also the stats of the module are not announced yet. We have no clue what the cycle time or what kind of slot this takes, but we can still give feedback on the specific details we would like to see.

I don't remember seeing this... got a pic?
It does sound interesting, though. The more modules the better, IMO.

I love the idea - anything that helps moving fleet fights away from the horrendous ctrl click primary hit f1 idiocy is great.

However this may be a bit problematic with titans and supers where successfully taking the sip down requires a huge amount of players to lock the target (provided anyone still flies titans and supers when it comes out due to goons nerfing them beyond uselessness).

Exactly what a drakefleet needs.

It would be bloody great, we'd **** off so many people by running around and constantly breaking anyone who tried to lock.

It's a killmail tease.