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Aramendel
Amarr North Face Force
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Posted - 2008.02.04 21:45:00 -
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No matter if you find their performance balanced or not, their SP cost to reach max efficiency is far FAR too low.
300k for ECM drones vs 2 mil for t2 (small and medium) drones? Yes, right.
The non-performance of the non-ecm EW drones is pretty balanced with their low SP cost to aquire, the ECM drones would still be cosidered a worthwhile SP investement if it would take 3 mil SP.
Needed: a higher SP cost for making ECM drones effective. Suggestion: reduce ECM drone strength to 40% of current, give them the same 20%/lvl as dps drones for drone interfacing and 5%/lvl for EW drone interfacing.
Then there is the performance disaprity between ECM and other EW/utility drones.
Web drones are marginally useful, as are energy neut drones. Damp, TD, TP drones are utterly pointless. ECM drones are very powerful.
Reducing ECM drone power by 25% wouldn't overnerf them IMO. The problem is what to do with the useless EW drones. YOu basically would have to remove the stacking penality for them to make them viable, but such a selective stacking penality removal might very well not be possible without significant game engine modifications.
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Aramendel
Amarr North Face Force
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Posted - 2008.02.05 00:20:00 -
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Originally by: Azuma Hijikata Edited by: Azuma Hijikata on 04/02/2008 23:41:28
Originally by: Aramendel
Needed: a higher SP cost for making ECM drones effective. Suggestion: reduce ECM drone strength to 40% of current, give them the same 20%/lvl as dps drones for drone interfacing and 5%/lvl for EW drone interfacing.
Love this idea as a 4.5 million SP dronefag. On the other hand, giving ECM drones a 60% increase over their current jamming strength at DI5 (as I have) would be generating even more whines and moans than they do now. The tears are delicious, but there's only so much you can drink.
Percentual calculations do not add up, they multiply ;)
Current light ECM drone strength: 1 Reduction to 40%: 1 * 0.4 -> 0.4 Drone interfacing 5, 20% strength increase/lvl: 0.4 * (1 + 0.2 * 5) -> 0.8 EW DI 5, 5%/lvl: 0.8 * (1 + 0.5 * 5) -> 1
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Aramendel
Amarr North Face Force
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Posted - 2008.02.05 21:42:00 -
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Mu.
There is no such thing. The strength of small/med/heavy is 1/1.5/2. It does NOT add up together but each drone represents a single ECM jam attempt.
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