Interesting idea. Open to exploring it, but it will soon be shot down with a flood of Nerf Rage.

Ewar is basically can target / can't target currently and I think it would be good to have something different than our competitors.

Imagine the Lithus mk2 you catch that under heavy ewar has a shield failure.

Wrong "nerf-ewar-thread" response.

Actually, at least OP has fresh idea.

I like the idea of making things bigger. But there is that pesky Single Tile Issue to compete with so we can't have larger Bots as is.

The alternative is to focus inward and get more out of our Single Tile limitations. More Bots is the first solution in my option followed very closely by more mods. If we are going to add "eye" slots and start making mods and bots focus on specific capabilities that could be a good direction. The more we focus on the details of each single bot the 'larger' it becomes despite the Single Tile.

So my above post was premature, thus deleted.

The problem with ewar here is that combat mechanic in perpetuum is quite simple (compared to eve). In eve in order to land a show you need to have proper traversal speed, range, ammo-size-to-target ratio, turret rotation speed and couple more things. And with all those parameters in place it opens you up for a lot of interesting ewar which already is there (and used in smaller scale engagements very often) like weapon disruptors which lower your optimal range or turret rotation speed.

Well you balance it by giving different modules different strengths thereby reducing their ability to fail. Shields are very important but in a combat situation if they only failed a comparatively small amount of time for a small amount of time then it wouldn't be too much risk. Compare that to using ewar to break a lithus and under sustained fire and ewar it provides another option for the small gang.

but wouldn't that kind make it just another universal tool to bring down someone defenseless? a role which Neuts already have?

the idea is not bad, but it sounds hard to achieve a balance between a to high and a to low chance to hit, especially when, as usual, the chance is based on item tier and an extension and number of modules used. (the typical t4 maxed-out downward scaling)

reminds of the old idea DEV Alf had with target hitzones, individual module damage, where modules could be damaged up to beeing destroyed, before the whole robot explodes.