Heavy Interdiction Cruisers: Difference between revisions

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=== Rolling Wormholes ===

Heavy interdictors are also the only ships which can fit the Zero Point Mass Entangler high slot module. When activated, this dramatically reduces the HIC's mass (by 80%, to a fifth of its normal value) but even more dramatically reduces its speed (by 95%). It disables the warp drive and any microwarp drive fitted, and reduces the thrust bonus from afterburners by 90%.

Heavy interdictors are also the only ships which can fit the Zero-Point Mass Entangler high slot module (ZPME). When activated, this dramatically reduces the HIC's mass (by 80%, to a fifth of its normal value) but even more dramatically reduces its speed (by 95%). It disables the warp drive and any microwarp drive fitted, and reduces the thrust bonus from afterburners by 90%.

These effects are unhelpful in most situations, but they make the ship a convenient tool for "rolling" [[wormholes]], that is, moving mass through an unwanted wormhole in order to close it. In particular, the Entangler's mass reduction effects allow a HIC to jump through a critically destabilized wormhole, with minimal chance of that wormhole collapsing until the HIC jumps through it again (with its Entanglers off this time). To this end, most rolling HIC fits feature 3 Entanglers, which are activated together, to maximize the mass reduction effects.

{{expansion past|Prior to September, 2018, it was the Warp Disruption Field Generator itself which provided the HIC with reduced mass and speed. However, there was an unintended interaction between the Generator and 500MN Microwarpdrives, allowing 500MN HICs to slingshot themselves around stargates at high speeds and thus tackle any ship no matter where it was coming from. When CCP moved to address this by removing the mass and speed effects from the Generator, it caused a severe outcry from the wormhole space community over the loss of "rolling HICs", and so the ~~Zero Point Mass Entangler~~ was hastily created to re-introduce the desired non-combat mass reduction behavior.}}

{{expansion past|Prior to September, 2018, it was the Warp Disruption Field Generator itself which provided the HIC with reduced mass and speed. However, there was an unintended interaction between the Generator and 500MN Microwarpdrives, allowing 500MN HICs to slingshot themselves around stargates at high speeds and thus tackle any ship no matter where it was coming from. When CCP moved to address this by removing the mass and speed effects from the Generator, it caused a severe outcry from the wormhole space community over the loss of "rolling HICs", and so the ZPME was hastily created to re-introduce the desired non-combat mass reduction behavior.}}

== Tactics ==

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 === Rolling Wormholes ===
-Heavy interdictors are also the only ships which can fit the Zero Point Mass Entangler high slot module. When activated, this dramatically reduces the HIC's mass (by 80%, to a fifth of its normal value) but even more dramatically reduces its speed (by 95%). It disables the warp drive and any microwarp drive fitted, and reduces the thrust bonus from afterburners by 90%.
+Heavy interdictors are also the only ships which can fit the Zero-Point Mass Entangler high slot module (ZPME). When activated, this dramatically reduces the HIC's mass (by 80%, to a fifth of its normal value) but even more dramatically reduces its speed (by 95%). It disables the warp drive and any microwarp drive fitted, and reduces the thrust bonus from afterburners by 90%.
 These effects are unhelpful in most situations, but they make the ship a convenient tool for "rolling" [[wormholes]], that is, moving mass through an unwanted wormhole in order to close it. In particular, the Entangler's mass reduction effects allow a HIC to jump through a critically destabilized wormhole, with minimal chance of that wormhole collapsing until the HIC jumps through it again (with its Entanglers off this time). To this end, most rolling HIC fits feature 3 Entanglers, which are activated together, to maximize the mass reduction effects.
-{{expansion past|Prior to September, 2018, it was the Warp Disruption Field Generator itself which provided the HIC with reduced mass and speed. However, there was an unintended interaction between the Generator and 500MN Microwarpdrives, allowing 500MN HICs to slingshot themselves around stargates at high speeds and thus tackle any ship no matter where it was coming from. When CCP moved to address this by removing the mass and speed effects from the Generator, it caused a severe outcry from the wormhole space community over the loss of "rolling HICs", and so the Zero Point Mass Entangler was hastily created to re-introduce the desired non-combat mass reduction behavior.}}
+{{expansion past|Prior to September, 2018, it was the Warp Disruption Field Generator itself which provided the HIC with reduced mass and speed. However, there was an unintended interaction between the Generator and 500MN Microwarpdrives, allowing 500MN HICs to slingshot themselves around stargates at high speeds and thus tackle any ship no matter where it was coming from. When CCP moved to address this by removing the mass and speed effects from the Generator, it caused a severe outcry from the wormhole space community over the loss of "rolling HICs", and so the ZPME was hastily created to re-introduce the desired non-combat mass reduction behavior.}}
 == Tactics ==