Masslock OXP's Summary

Redspear's summary of his four Masslock OXP's (from the BB)

Masslock Compensator (2018)

Speedboost (200%) when masslocked but cancelled by red alert

No benefit for combat

Significant reduction of time spent in masslock

Power To Engines (2019)

Speedboost (150%) when weapons offline

Useful for escaping faster opponents (if they did same then they wouldn't be able to shoot)

Helps reduce duration of masslocks

Traffic Redistributer (2017)

Adjusts traffic to increase frequency of slower traders (and so that the 'best' courier ships aren't also the most common)

Station bound traffic becomes easier to overtake because it's usually slower

Pirates, hunters and police are unaffected

Redspear's three older OXPs above are complementary and do not conflict with each other

Masslock Reimagined (2022)

Masslock lasts for a fixed duration rather than until scanner is clear

No speed changes to either player or average encountered NPC

Taking fire negates the effect but possible to dodge your way out of a masslock without being the faster ship

Likely to make Masslock Compensators obsolete if it develops as I hope

Norby also wrote an older Masslock OXP:

Variable Masslock (2015)

Reduces Radii of masslocking NPCs by the mass of their ships (copying Classic Elite)

Non-masslocking ships appear as a darker yellow on the scanner

Masslock reintroduced to stop one smashing into unpowered asteroids/cargo pods etc.