Medium module cap usage vs small module cap usage

Not much experience yet with medium modules in combat but I'll tend to agree with the large increase in accumulator usage vs the increase in damage output as it appears on paper. Where the experience would come into play is in how things work out actually, and not on paper.

There are some important questions about using Mechs and bigger, though: How are you fitting out the mech? What are your relevant extensions at? The important rule of thumb I can probably bring in here is 'Just because you can use it doesn't mean you should.' There very well could be a general level of competence for piloting a mech over a light or assault bot expected as far as the level of extensions effecting core, processor, accumulator, and weapon systems. I just want to mention this before the 'overpowered/underpowered' issue is argued too much.

I'm not sure what you mean here on the imbalance with missile launchers. I'd say it's another subject that likely needs looking at.

Medium miner modules certainly require WAY to much accumulator consumption. A heavy miner mech fitted with 5 med modules simply isn't going to be able to perma run them even with good extensions and accumulator upgrades, which it should be able to do.

My test was with an accumulator recharger in I just forgot to list it

And I was only running the gun and sensor booster all the time the armor repper was clicked on and off imediatly so it gave just 1 cycle and that was 75% of the core gone, you can see it dropping with every volly and not recovering and only 14 salvos fired

So in my case I can safely say I was not trying to perma run anything just see how well the core stood up to "normal use"

Last edited by Kveldulfson (2009-11-30 16:11:38)

The huge gap is comes from that you need to feel the difference  if you use medium modules on small runners or small modules on mechs.
There was a pvp beta half year ago, and there were intensive moduletesting, groupbattles, free for all, in any possible combination of runners, mechs and so on. We are happy with the current states of the modules, but as you probably know, there is always something better than other in certain ways. You need to think on global, check out many many ways of usage, situation. It is much more complex than simple stat comparing.

Since mining wasnt part of the pvp beta, the mining core usage extensions got a good boost

I ll test mining after the patch again and we will see. Still 7,5x cap consumtion to get a 66,7% boost seems a bit off.

About the med weaponst. I am cross training to "Pelistal Empire". Pls pls pls keep the weapons as they are now. Thank you

Agree on that !
Laser acumulator usage is out of control . Theres lots on bonuses that reduce ROF , what makes acumulator hungry lasers even worse. And there only 2 or 3 extention to make acumulator better .
Also Acumulator related extentions requared reactor extention an that strange .
There should be some extention like , reduce acu usage of weapon and / or armor repairs.
Could be some bonus for laser speced bots (Hello amarr ), something like "Thelodica robot control" but chage it from tiny 1% rof reduce to 3-5% acu usage reduce.
Or just tune a bit cap usage of lasers.

The Larger bots that have much much bigger CPUs and Reactors can handle the load of meadium mods. This is a limiting factor samller bots. Samller bots get bonuses for Smaller Mods, Lerger bots get Bonuses of larger mods. Just because you can Puch a 286ci engine into a Vega doesn't mean it will work. You want to use larger Mods then get a larger mech that can handle the increases.

As for Cappacitors ,and thier recharge rates currently we have Standard Capacitor rechargers, and Capacitor Restoring Mods. With the release of the medium Cap Boosters ,and Cap rechargers [along with Level 6+ Energy management for Cap recharge rate increase] you can fit all those medium Mods onto your Mech/hvy mech with limited restrictions.

Efficient Weapon Ussage lowers CPU and another skill reduces Reactor usage. For cap rate use Mods to regen Cap or t Refill it. Energy Management is a god send skill.

ACs and Missles use little cap and it seems to work well. Once it fires there is no more draw on tha capacitor, compared to a lazer that pumps out a beam of energy. The fact that Missles have a lower range than lazers it tends to work out well as a balanceing factor. Guess that is why All bots have at least 1 Missle slot.