You guys keep bringing up that a single Vaga can lock out a mech, and that is just not true. As I described earlier a Vaga cannot lock out even 1 mech by itself. It requires a joint effort between the Vaga, a Zenith, and a tackling bot. THAT is why Ewar is balanced, it requires incredible coordination to just break even on a numbers basis.

Rather than spreadsheet warrior Ive gotten out in the game and tested it. They cant lock them out, damage gets through. But at this point Im about done doing your testing for you.

All you guys need to go all out on test server and fight, no precious pixels there to loose.

I am glad that everyone felt the need to respond and attentively focus on the sarcastic part of my last post.

@ Burial: If you honestly believed that my statement was meant as the end all be all counter fit for max range e-war then.... well i now know why this thread exists.

You are talking about a bot that is being semi-buffed from another next to it, if not two more providing those buffs. Take that same mentality and apply it to support the RIGHT dps fit and you have solved this riddle of a e-war counter.

@Anni - If I undock in a 1000m meter bot the ONLY place i will engage is somewhere i can use that range. That would be the entire point of that fit. You know me better than to assume I would not have already accounted for every possible downside of a fit.

i know,
and i know that actually those ewar bots don't have that restriction.

But do you know why I don't like EWAR the way it is? for the same reason i wrote in my last post.
It removes the slight difference between EVE and Perp -> player "twitch" skills.

you can run behind cover, do hit and run in DPS vs. DPS. There is a good bit of player skill involved. You can even react on the battlefield to your opponents equip by switching ammos if you figured out his resists (well, only a little bit because that part of the game is very underdeveloped).

But if someone just ECMs , JAMs or DEMOBs you -> what can you as individual do to counter that?
In all the discussions here its "bring the right fit" or "bring more mates" is the answer. Thats nothing you can adjust on the terrain.

And there is it, the ultimate PvP skill in perp - know when to just run from a fight you have zero chance to win.

Anni are you talking about the same EVE where a frigate (small bot) or similar can lock down a TITAN(WAY bigger than heavy mech) so people can take their time and arrive at the location to kill the titan? Because if you are, it's more than legit for a cam to lockdown a seth in perp.

I would invite anyone to bring 7 guys to the test server in whatever ewar you want vs 7 of my guys and we shall see who's overpowered.

Shots fired.