It is so terribly tempting to wipe this rather odd line of thought right off the table by pointing to the use of cynoceptors as penetration point but let’s not even though several very effective small to medium groups have been surprising rorquals that way for quite a while now.
If this line of thinking is to be the new reasonable, please do not be surprised if customers pop up with all sorts of interesting demands and references for analogies. I can just picture the freighter or orca pilot going batshit because he is completely unable to do anything while getting bumped by a machariel as that one employes a mechanic that functions well.
Doesn’t anybody at the CSM think things further through than change consequences? There’s multiple paths of effects beyond those here. There’s a few CCPians grinning. Not only does this devblog open a door towards change by analogy of other mmo mechanics, the foundation for it is remarkable.
Honestly, merely the comment of no real counter to ceptors is emberassing. The ECM “balance” is a classic of sneaking in something over the back of a few with a fixation.