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Posted - 2013.10.30 18:47:00 -
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Maken Tosch wrote: CCP didn't lie about them. Not every low-slot module has a stacking penalty. If they don't have the description saying that they have one, then there is no stacking penalty. Range Amplifiers for example don't have stacking penalties and they don't have the penalty description.
I saw this earlier and took note because I couldn't post from work...
There ARE stacking penalties on Range Amplifiers, despite them not being mentioned in the description. I and several other scouts have tested this with fully skilled gallente proto scouts and level 5 long range scanning with 4 complex range amplifiers - without stacking penalties you should be able to see people passively 100m away but it's much much less; around 67m, which is what the numbers come to with stacking penalties.
I would not be at all surprised if this is also the case for dampeners but the best way for you to check for yourself (since you have level 3 dampening) is to don any light suit (not scout) and put on 2 enhanced dampeners. Without stacking penalties you can avoid proto scanners but with penalties you can't.
I'm just running some numbers for more interesting analyses and will get back to you guys again shortly.
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Posted - 2013.10.30 19:09:00 -
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Okiedoke, as promised, I'm back to report on my findings. I can see only a handful of cases (I didn't bother with heavies because 65db, come on) where stacking penalties might actually have any effect on whether you are able to avoid a certain scanner and these are as follows:
Medium suit, level 1 damp, 2 x std dampeners - with penalties can not avoid advanced scanners, without can
Light suit (not scout), level 3 damp, 2 x adv dampeners - with penalties can not avoid proto scanners, without can
Light suit, lvl 5 damp, 1 adv + 1 std dampeners - with penalties can not avoid proto scanners, without can
Scout lvl 1, lvl 3 damp, 1 adv + 1 std dampeners - with penalties can not avoid proto scanners, without can
Scout lvl 1, lvl 5 damp, 2 x std dampeners - with penalties can not avoid proto scanners, without can
Now I suspect that similarly to range amps, stacking penalties do apply to dampeners but really with so few cases where it actually has any impact, the whole question is a bit of a moot point really.
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