Bastard Poll: For or Against Shared Passive Scans?

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Bastard Poll: For or Against Shared Passive Scans?

Yeah, people don't realize that a 10% bonus to Kincats is almost worthless.

Why? Because it multiplies a percentage of a small percentage.

At max, that's 50%, which takes the 12% boost and makes it 18%

Which translates to a grand total of : (DRUMROLL)

+0.5m/s speed difference!

Whoopie.

Not enough to matter. 250% bonus? Kincats go to a 42% Increase

That makes you 11.8 m/s from a single Kincat!

Now, with the Speed cap, you would only sprint at around 11.12 m/s which is PERFECT for speed tanking.

Although I would still like that 11.8

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Now: About your changes to the Min Scout

I like them, as it achieves the main goal of the suit. Speed, Stealth, and Hacking.

The Min Scout needs ALL THREE to be a viable suit in PC. It needs the stealth to get to the point undetected, the hack to get it done before anyone crashes your party, and then the Speed to get out.

How this is achieved can vary.

I actually don't want a boost to Kincat efficacy. Just buff the Min Scout's base speed. Buff it to around 9.31 m/s.

This makes the bonus from Bitoics buff it to 9.78 which is GOOD in it's own right.

Wanna be faster? We can throw on a speed mod. 1 Complex puts you at exactly 11 m/s.

Perfect.

Now, the reason why I do this, is because I still want people to have flexibility.

You keep the bonus to Knives and Hack, and you also buff the base hack to 1.25 (Zatara and I discussed the numbers, it won't make the scout OP. With 1x Codebreakers and 2x Damps, it makes the scout hack faster than a Gal running 2x Codebreakers and 2x Damp. Gal can't steal our hack role with this).

Now, this also provides that flexibility I talked about. You are fast enough to survive, and you can now choose. More Speed? Or More Hack?

Or maybe you're fine with 9.78 m/s sprint and the hack speed w/o mods. You have some freedom to fit other mods, to turn it into a slayer scout while maintaining a speed that separates you from the other scouts. A scout with 343 shields and 160 armor (Complex Ferro) will be a good skirmish fighter with decent hack to back it up. Allows you to have that flexibility to play as a light assault if you need to.

Notice the word I keep saying. Flexibility.

The Minmatar suits are supposed to be flexible, fragile suits that have a higher base speed over the other suits. The changes I have mentioned should help the Min Scout out a LOT. OH, and PG still needs a buff.

What fit will I run?

2x Shields
1x Complex Sidearm Damage Mod

2x Damp
1x Speed

Ishnoks
Core Flaylock (Utility and for Popping remotes)
Fluxes

Proto Cloak
F\45 RE's (I hope the PG buff is enough for this.)

This fit is made to Cause Chaos. At 11 m/s and dampened, I should be able to zoom around and harass targets. RE's are for Traps or quick DoT (Damage on Target. Think "Oh hey, two heavies on the point. RE TIME!)

Fluxes are for removing equipment, and the Core is used to quickly remove remotes from Objectives. I can't hack super fast, but at 1.9 base hack (Translates to 5 second hack speeds) I can still get it off quickly. If not, I can escape if need be.

EDIT:

Okay, I just realized a possible problem with this.

With the high base speed, you can run a complex Plate instead of a ferro. How is this a problem?

578 total HP that sprints at 9.3 m/s and mostly undetectable. Sound familiar?

Granted, you have no armor regen. At all. And your strafe still takes a hit. It's not too bad (The Gal Scout hit over 700 and was only a bit slower, AND it had armor regen)

Hm. I think the plates need a higher speed penalty, possibly around the old value of 10%

That would make this guy sprint at 8.8, which is a LOT more manageable. Not to mention what will happen to his strafe..

Some numbers for you, includes reducing Standard Remote explosives to 1000, Advanced to 1250 and Prototype to 1500.
Discussions here, I guess.

As it turns out, I found a bug that means the Forge Gun and Swarm weren't getting their proficiency skill bonuses against vehicle armour on HAVs and Dropships. I think I'll look at fixing that.

QPLAK

@ Arkena / Llast
The Rifle changes are less wild-and-crazy than initially suspected. Here's the rundown:

New Numbers (The Buffs, ranked)

• Tactical Assault Rifles (All) +27% to RoF, +15% DMG, +7% Range
• Burst Assault Rifles (Adv) +17% to RoF, +15% DMG
• Burst Assault Rifles (Pro) +6% to RoF, +18% DMG
• Breach Assault Rifles (All) +7% to RoF, +13% DMG
• Assault Rifles (All) +6% to RoF

Note: Lower-tier range profiles buffed to fit prototype range profile (i.e. ranges normalized).
Note: Selected, post-normalized effective range profiles reduced as follows:

New Numbers (The Nerfs, ranked)

• Assault Rifles -10% Range
• Assault Combat Rifles -6% Range
• Assault Rail Rifles -5% Range
• Breach Assault Rifles -5% Range
• Assault Scrambler Rifle -2% Range
• Rail Rifle -2% Range

what weapons and equipment are you guys using? I'm suspicious of a buff because I think it would enable things like max dampening, PRO weapons, and dual PRO equipment with no sacrifice to fitting. I'm fine with scouts needing fitting restrictions. I bet you guys aren't using combat rifles and SMGs and fitting the longer range stuff on there like RRs and also expecting to have a tank to go with it.

shame on you.

Counter Proposal
Thoughts?

shame they can't introduce another type of remote that does more damage but has a blast radius so small it essentially has to be stuck to said vehicle or under it. like almost every av person has mentioned in the past.

that said I do agree with ya here.

Its too bad they can't just buff proxy mines in some way to make them viable against HAVs.

Oh NO, don't bring out the Igginbotham!

Yea, even though Ace Combat has a terrible FTP model, I have been playing it more. Protoforge and running in that AV squad the other night was pretty frackin epic though. How many tanks did we kill in one match............6/7?

I personally liked the Riverdance reference.

Squeaker: "I'm 24 years old, guys! I swear."

I'll be on more often once the mom-in-law moves along.
Me: Sure thing, honey ... anyone's welcome to visit for a few days.

Visit 1: 14 days
Visit 2: 5 days
Visit 3: 7 days

If my information is correct, we're wrapping up the 6th day of her 7 day visit.

I'm getting the feeling that Jolly doesn't like Heavies all that much...

XD nahhh man.
I have proto gallente heavy, and caldari heavy.
J0LLY R0G3R ran around as a Type II heavy or whatever whenever that was a thing.

I hate idiots and think there should be an iq test before your allowed to get on a computer/device connected to the internet.