Changes to Speed coming up
July 27th, 2008 |
Expect to see some big changes to the speed-modules and such in a future patch. A few days ago a rather big explanation of some of the changes was posted on the developer blog. We will give you some of the highlights, but you can read the full post here.
The first thing is a more balanced MWD (Microwarpdrive) speed cross the different types of ships. Today it is possible to boost a ship with so much speedbonus that it outruns smaller ships. CCP wants to balance this out to make it impossible (hey, nothing is impossible in Eve 
) to “misuse” a generic ship, like a cruiser, to make it better than specialized ships.
MWD has been the way to go for PvP since I can remember, and CCP wants to make the AB (afterburner) a viable alternative to MWD in PvP. As you see from the name, MWD uses warp technology to increase the speed, and it seems like warp scrambling now will make the MWD deactivate. So far it seems like only the “Warp Scrambler” (7.5+ km range) will have this effect and not the “Warp Disruptor” (20ish km). I think this is important for not making the MWD totally useless.
A third change to MWDs is that the tech 1 named Microwarpdrives will give the same speedboost as the tech 1 generic MWD, and the difference will be only the capacitor usage.
The changes are not finalized, so it will be interesting to read the patch notes when this goes live. Stay tuned for more information about this.