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Sekundar Burnes
Woopatang Primary.
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Posted - 2009.03.31 21:44:00 -
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Lots of people fly Falcons, few people fly Rooks. Yet the Rook is in most ways a better ship than the Falcon. The Rook has much better resists, higher sensor strength, lower sig radius and so on. But the Falcon can warp cloaked.
That's why there is all this emotion on the boards, btw. If all Caldari pilots flew Blackbirds or Scorpions or Rooks the conversation would be more civil. The frustration comes in when a gang fight is going and you think you have a good chance - and then the Falcons uncloak.
The problem is that this tactic is both effective and necessary. Effective because a jam takes another ship out for 25 seconds or more (20 sec jam + relock). Necessary because if your opponents count your ECM ships and don't like the number they are far less likely to engage.
If I were the Ishukone Corporation I would make ECM modules that fit in the high slot but with radically lower range. I bet that would solve most of the issues here.
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Sekundar Burnes
Woopatang Primary.
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Posted - 2009.04.01 05:42:00 -
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Originally by: TZeer I`m not sure what all of you are complaining about.
Those against falcons just saw the falcon and rook get their range massively reduced.
They can actually be engaged with drones now.
Yeah, this is kind of a problem. Once any of the ECM ships have drones on them they are in deep trouble. Unlike other weapons systems, once the drone is locked on it doesn't break when the controlling ship is jammed. (And for a while at least drones continue to attack even if the controlling ship has warped off or blown up. That's a feature, right??)
So if you warp into range of a group of ships you will pretty much have to lock and jam them before they lock and send drones against you.
This is another example of the binary results that ECM seems to have, and few other weapons systems. In this case, you are either safe from drones or you're aligning to warp out.
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Sekundar Burnes
Woopatang Primary.
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Posted - 2009.04.17 21:32:00 -
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Once again I'd like to say that the biggest issue of ECM is it's binary nature. You are either jammed for 20 seconds, or you aren't.
Some jams should be for 5 seconds, some for 30, depending on signal strength and luck. This would make an ECCM mod almost always useful and would bring ECM in line with other weapons systems.
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