Guillame Herschel
Gallente
Buffalo Soldiers
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Posted - 2009.03.24 21:50:00 -
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No other E-WAR has the capability to completely incapacitate the target's offense. That's where ECM is imbalanced. It's not about range or strength, it's about being completely unable to do anything to counter being jammed, except warping off.
A pilot affected by TD can maneuver to reduce transversal, or close on his adversary to within the reduced optimal range of his guns.
A pilot affected by SD can get a lock, he's just slower, or needs to move closer.
A pilot affected by TP can maneuver to increase transversal, or could have fit Halo implants.
In all these cases, the pilot can respond by also applying E-WAR to his adversary.
ECM is the only E-WAR where the pilot simply has to wait out the cycle, and hope it doesn't affect him on the next (often a vain hope). Fitting an ECCM does nothing for him once a jam is achieved. And unless you're in a BS, fitting an ECCM won't raise your sensor strength enough to avoid being jammed most of the fight.
The way to balance ECM seems plain enough to me: boost ECCM. Instead of granting a percentage boost to sensor strength, make it boost a fixed amount, say 10 points for the base T1 mod and increasing to 20 points for the T2. This will help small ships avoid being perma-jammed due to low intrinsic sensor strength. Add rigs to the game that boost sensor strength, or the effectiveness of ECCM. If you activate an ECCM module while jammed, it should have a chance to break the jam. Reduce ECM's cycle time to 10 seconds, like all other E-WAR. And lastly, paint the Falcon hot pink with lime green camo stripes.
-- The Theorem Theorem: If If, Then Then --
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Guillame Herschel
Gallente
Buffalo Soldiers
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Posted - 2009.03.24 22:02:00 -
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 Originally by: GateScout
Originally by: Guillame Herschel
ECM is the only E-WAR where the pilot simply has to wait out the cycle, and hope it doesn't affect him on the next
What's your point?
Can you read? I made my point. Go read it again.
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Make the falcon more like the other E-WAR ships....and make ECM hit 100% of the time and each module work equally well on each race.
That's fine, so long as ECCM is changed to be a viable counter to ECM. It actually makes a hell of a lot more sense for ECM not to be chance-based.
Betcha didn't see agreement coming, didja?
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