Faction modules: Difference between revisions

Sooner or later new pilots hear about or see 'faction' modules: rare, powerful versions of standard modules.  

Faction modules are modules that have some of their properties enhanced or modified. They may have:

* much lower powergrid and/or CPU fitting requirements than their normal T1/2 counterparts

You can find a module's faction, deadspace and officer variants on its Variations tab.

Faction modules represent souped-up equipment produced by New Eden's various NPC factions for their soldiers' use, and therefore not normally available to the general public. Capsuleers can acquire them from the LP stores of NPC corporations, provided they have enough LP and ISK, and possibly some insignias from that faction's enemies to hand in too.

Only factions related to any given kind of module will produce it: you won't see a Caldari Navy Mega Pulse Laser as Caldari ships aren't designed for and have no bonuses for lasers. What you ''will'' see is a Caldari Navy Heavy Missile Launcher and a Dread Guristas Heavy Missile Launcher (the Empire faction and the Pirate faction), among others from another empire/faction and maybe another pirate faction too.  

These are the prefixes you'll find on faction modules.

Deadspace modules come from rare rat drops in low sec and nullsec complex and exploration sites. 'Rare' ''means'' rare: you can go through many exploration sites and never get a deadspace drop.

Deadspace groups are divided into three smaller groups each, according to the size of the rat (and the module -- frigate-sized modules come from frigate-sized rats, and so on).

! Rat Type !! Frigate/small !! Cruiser/medium !! Battleship/large

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Corpus-X > Corpus-A > Corpus-B > Corpus-C  

Also, for the same module (10MN Afterburner, for example) sometimes one group's deadspace modules will be better than another's. You may find Corelum and Gistum C, B, and A 10MN Afterburners, but these are ''not'' the same. For some modules like Afterburners, the difference is that one deadspace variant consumes more CPU, and the other consumes more powergrid, but that otherwise their stats are the same. However, for some other modules like shield resistance hardeners, while there are Pithum and Gistum C, B, and A-Type EM hardeners, the Pithum hardeners all provide notably more resistance than the Gistum hardeners (at the cost of more CPU).

The table below shows what modules each deadspace module type covers and what site they drop from.

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Officer modules only drop from officer spawns (named rats) which are incredibly rare and only spawn in some belts in some regions. They are named after the pirate officer from whose wreck they came. They are similar in quality to the better deadspace modules: the Pith-X Shield Boost Amplifier is identical to Estamel's Modified Shield Boost amplifier, and the lesser Pith-B is identical to Thon's Modified one.  

The order for each pirate faction is like this:  

! Faction !! Region it spawns in !! Best !! > !! > !! Worst  

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Officer modules are some of the strongest and rarest modules ingame, and as such are extremely expensive.

So, when is it worth it to splurge on faction, deadspace or officer equipment? If you're a fabulously wealthy supercapital construction magnate, you could conceivably deadspace-fit T1 frigates for solo PvP. The rest of New Eden's pilots have to make some personal judgements about

At the time of writing the Shadow Serpentis webifier is roughly 130 times more expensive than the T2 webifier. If you're fighting within web range the effect on the target's velocity will often be more important to you than your ability to web from a longer range than normal, and so the T2 will be more useful than the Dark Blood webifier anyway.

* the Rapier has massive bonuses to web range, which increase the difference between them: at Recon V, the faction web has 20 km more range than the T2 web

* the Rapier is fast, agile and can use a covert ops cloak, so you can reasonably expect it to last you for a while (especially if you're an experienced pilot, which you should be if you're fitting force recons)

The last reason mentioned for putting a faction module on the Rapier -- that there is a (somewhat) lower chance of you losing the ship -- is also behind the widespread practice of faction-fitting long-term mission-running ships.  

Remember, however, that faction-fitted mission-running ships are a target for suicide gankers, so -- depending on where and how conspicuously you run missions -- faction modules may increase your chances of losing your ship even while they make it more effective.

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