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Capital Punishment.
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Posted - 2014.11.07 11:52:00 -
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Remove all directional information about the enemy
Agree, this is quite a big change on its own but well worth doing.
Commando should have better sig profile (-5) than Sentinel, Sentinel has better precision (+5) - skirmisher vs point defense
Assault should have better sig profile (-5) than Logi, Logi has better precision (+5)
Am agnostic on this, will leave it to the boffins to work through the ramifications.
Plot twist: Extenders and Plates add signature profile
Extenders: yes. Please make it a flat amount, not percentage (percentage means stacking penalty, but penalises big suits more)
Plates: a more elegant approach would be to make scan precision worse instead, as Nullus suggested.
PS: Please don't change ferro scales or reactive plates in this change.
Spy uplinks - std only heavies, adv only mediums+, pro scouts+, this is to be able to use "motion sensors" to set up a defense in PC
This shows promise, but something sticky like spy remotes would be better?
Note that another option is available: spy grenades that expire after a certain amount of time after being thrown.
Reduce ultra range of Active Scanners by 50%
I think a more nuanced approach is needed.
Personally, I'm a fan of many different types of scanner, all following this rule of thumb:
"Range, cool down, precision, pick only two"
Put all frames at same passive ranges at 15, otherwise amplifiers are just too good for scouts and useless for others
Why not change it to a flat amount in metres per range extender?
STD Active scanner only sees STD Deployables, and so forth, Proximity AV Mines - get much better if they can't be seen, same with uplinks.
Fair enough, but remember that prototype equipment costs are very high, especially on packhorse logistics suits.
Reduce Scan duration across the board
Deal, as long as you also increase the scan angle, and make Active Scanner skill provide an efficiency bonus to cool down.
Hand in hand - Gallogi/Cloak and Stealth Scout changes - can be isolated
Agnostic, but would like to make the point that gallogi is by far getting the rough end of this particular pineapple.
Focused Scanner should be set at share with Squad only
The bad range, angle and cool down makes this moot anyway.
Focused scanner is in a really bad place at the moment and I think it's reasonable to break this discussion into another thread.
Dust/Eve transfers
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