Oh, and Burial you're already getting your Follow Bot nerf for the purpose of limiting pay2win multi-account abuse. One of the biggest losers in that nerf are RSA users. Don't you think we should take a look at the other 99 ways to abuse multiple accounts and pay2win tactics?

Or was it always about ewar range, like I have been saying?

Reality of forum campaign to "reduce competitiveness" of "pay2win" multi-account "abuse":
1.) nerf Follow
2.) nerf RSA
3.) nerf NEXUS
4.) nerf ewar strength
5.) nerf Zenith
6.) buff Heavy Mech sensor strength

Finally, no more pay2win multi-account abuse!

Shadow, I'm shocked that you agree with this!

I colored what you said that I perceive to be the problem.

It's a balance issue and probably not very high in the priority list but here's my suggestion:
Add a double Sensor Amp bonus to every bot and then take away 20% from locking time and 20% from locking time. Modify Sensor Amps and Remote Sensor Amps to both add 10% to both locking range and time so in the end we end up with similar ranges and locking times.

Despite what you think, I do play my Vagabond and I have high skills for that. I enjoy it more because it doesn't require a follow-bot most of the time like my Mesmer does but hopefully it will change at one point when balancing hits the heavies. (Same reason I'm sometimes in my ERP Mesmer by the way: Doesn't require a follow!)

Look past all the illuminati and policital non-sense and think. I got that removing RSA completely is too radical but what I proposed is to just reduce both SA and RSA effectiveness and adding the lost locking time and range to default robot stats.

By the way, do you always think that whatever STC suggests is all part of a secret grand game manipulation? Must be hard being you.

There are lot of ppl who can use suppressors and ECMs. Number of headslots are limited. That's why the ppl forced to use followbots. How you can "unload your hear"? - use RSA's and nexus modules in follow bot. Of course there is the problems with leg slots as well. There we have Energy transferers and remote armor repairers.

Cameleon - best booster bot. You can fit 2xRSA, 2xNexus modules and masker.
Rivelers or symbionts can provide repair and energy trasfer process.

Summary: you will be more effective if you have two additional accounts. Your squad will be definely stronger if everybody will use followbots.

@ Rex

Bud, we all understand that you and your alliance had some investments. But this investments spoiled the game, and going to spoil it in future.

+1

Thread is bias

I find this interesting that we have a thread saying how all other head slots are useless (Tuner thread) and then we wish to buff a bot to not use a sensor amp.

Talking about this one http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … e-modules/ .

And the solution is not to add stuff, this is already off the table due to resources.  In any case balance what you have now.  It will make it much more easy to add in new stuff later.

It's already answered. I think no point copypaste here.

Additionally, what about the single account guy that has to split EP between pvp and indy?  No fair, we need to nerf players that focus EP to give the single pvp/indy guy a fighting chance.

Zoom, if we don't implement this before steam release, my crystal ball tells me that 10's of thousands of single account players will quit in the first month alone.

Perp Dev Team 2014 motto: "Have Whiners, Will Nerf"

But wont my erp mesmer beat them all!

Umm when STC takes Betas and Gammas, they're undefended.
When you take Betas and Gammas they're .... undefended?!?  You had the numbers, we didn't when you started, and the results were predicted, and expected, by us.

You have not done anything we did not expect.  SpT wasn't the reason you were able to.
You could have done it with half the sparks.  If there was a problem with SpT it was never the amount, it was the no cooldown between them. Missions and tokens production would not have been possible if a cooldown of longer than the time it took to walk between the farthest stations to get assignments was in place, and thats about 10 minutes. You guys could do most anything PvP wise in 10 minutes if you were smart about it. Your arguments against it were made in that thread primarily on these premise.

It doesn't matter how many SpT locations you have, you are attacking places that are not defended. Simple.

Before you say otherwise, see Bergers and Imidero and Empreth owners. You (Jita) cut into Bergers, for a night ... you havent even utilized that breach, we have cut many times into Kraslovsk and caused more damage when we have bothered than you ever will.

Using your recent Beta and Gamma success in support of the SpT change is really a bad example.

Because this game does not have remote contracts, and travel sucks in the game a huge byproduct of this change will be to make remote mining operations much less efficient and managing market orders quickly in multiple locations extremely difficult. But hey, you guys are just PvPers, and evidenced by your "The followbot nerf hurts us, so nerf everyone equally ...because! (Gunner Logic)", I don't expect you to think of other aspects of this game.

And back on this topic I think Burial is suggesting buffing bots locking range and time to eliminate the use of a mod that pretty much everyone de facto fits .... I don't know if I agree with it, but thats All I see he is suggesting.