Does that mean inbuilt OLs are gonna get nerfed?

Depends on their stats. The best overloaders will be the ones that blow up of course.
I dont know what the stats will be on the best tech 20 non stable overloader yet, if I knew that it would be easier to get was the stats on all the others will be.
Overloader stable 5 is only tech 16 with +40% damage so I expect that one to be nerfed atleast. I also expect Titan overloader to be pretty much cut in half.

well, that'll suck for Fcs. Q's slaves, assuming they are hit by more than one typr of parasite will die quite quickly, as slaves cant switch cleaner(just like the solar panel thing cael was going to put in). and it gets worth when you guys figure out that capships are high bank/low regen things...

Actually, many of the stable overloaders have been made slightly more powerful, but also a lot bigger in size, since the alternative to a stable OL is a stack of unstable ones.

Hmm....I'll save my comment for when I see the actual stats.

I guess the change to aug stacking will leave a little room for better stats on overloaders.

That's right.

if i have 10 drones, deploy 5, let em shoot... take damage.. w/e... then scoop the 5.. will the first ones to be in line for deployment be the "full" ones or the ones that need a break. and does re-deploying a halfassed drone still require full amount of energy ?


make it 30 seconds and extend the privileges to squad


think there was an update for critical hits some time ago... that didnt let a player to do too many critical hits over time... is there some sort of protection for overloaders too ? or blowing 100 OL's with 100 shots will be considered just a bad beat ?

Blowing 100 overloaders in 100 shots is bad luck, yes. :p

Also scooping is already extended to squads, it says that in your quote even

blah... thats what you get with too much information in foreign language...
still... 10 seconds is not enough ...

and if you ain't gonna add protection for "overloaders blowing up too often", remove the "control for doin too many criticals"

Scoring too many critical hits over a certain amount of time is a balancing issue. I'm not sure if there is a control over it, but if there is, it's so we have a better control over what maximum crit damage over time will be.

Overloaders don't have the same issue in terms of balance that way, we don't need to regulate it, so there won't be a control on it.

so player doing too much damage over time is a no-no...
but player losing too many overloaders over time is okay ?

It will pick the drones with most shields first, and yes, all drones will require the normal energy. The point of this is to make it so scoop-redeploy is not a viable healing strategy. You'll need support of ShM or charge drones.

Well it will be a viable strategy if you carry a ton of backup drones with you, but that isn't always an option.

A solution for the slaves and parasites could be slave only exterminators. They attack all types and players can't undock with them equipped.

So you will be making the rosmary larger so that people can still use the zebra overloaders? or are the zebra overloaders and UZ/Ubar overloaders being left as is because they are harder to get then the stable overloaders?