May Arethusa
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Posted - 2016.10.04 06:37:56 -
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Quote:Why is the only efective way to deal with ECM is either the ECM's ship destruction or sacrificing an important slot for an eccm or sebos ?
I've always found this amusing. How exactly do you plan to counter potential sensor dampening? You sacrifice slots for a sensor booster. What about neuts? Cap boosters or cap batteries. Both are potentially devastating if unchecked, and yet nobody directs the same level of vitriol towards them that ECM garners. Target painters are entirely uncounterable (without relying upon your own EWAR), and enough of them will bloat even the smallest of targets to gargantuan proportions. Yet nobody really cares.
If you're dual webbed and unable to apply damage to your target as a result, do you charge headlong at the forums, your mouth frothing with tales of your misfortune and demands that this ridiculously broken module be fixed? No, you don't.
When your kiting ship blunders into scram range, do you blame the scram itself? No.
The funny thing is, ECM is one of the least reliable forms of EWAR. It simply has the most obvious impact when it works because for whatever reason people seem to believe they shouldn't prepare for it. That's your problem, not ECM's.
There is a group operating in my area that frequently relies upon ECM, and those that blunder into their trap often cry foul of ECM because they didn't expect it to be present. I fell foul of their trap once, and simply pointed out I would no longer fight them if it were present. Unlike everyone who cries about ECM, I then adapted my tactics and waited until I knew their Kitsune/Falcon pilot was flying another ship or absent. They responded by ensuring they never flew without it. Fair enough, I thought and went back to the drawing board, selecting ships with innately high sensor stengths and trained my support skills. When this proved unreliable, I modified the fits further. We haven't fought recently, because apparently ECM and overwhelming numbers weren't enough to ensure their victory. They've now added links to the mix, which won't help them for long. But when I decide to prove my point, they will know I'm ready for all their dirty tricks. Assuming they take the fight, which I highly doubt.
TL;DR?
Adapt or die. ECM is no worse than any other form of EWAR when it costs you a fight. |