EVE Search - Target Spectrum Breaker?

Lili Lu wrote:

When I first saw this on the test server I misunderstood it and thought great how does the game need more ecm. But what it really is is a gtfo option to possibly avoid being alpha'd by artillery module. Now I have not tested it in a fleet battle. But I'm sure it will get tested in this way.

So there you are with an overview of yellow boxes. You could hit it at that moment and congrats when they do turn red you may survive the first volley as quite possibly a majority of the enemy may not realize that they lost target on you when you were the secondary or tertiary. They may be stuck trying to reaquire you as a target while your logis are enjoying a chance to rehabilitate your hp or you are already warping out.

Alternately, sometimes in fleet fights you can guage when your numbers been picked. Not every yellow box becomes a red box at the exact same instant. So oh look on your watch list or over comms someone in your fleet just went down and you just saw a couple yellows turn red. Click. Now fewer yellows in overview can start turning red. Again this may or may not be enough to allow warp out or your logis to pull you back.

Tbh, this probably beats the alternative of nerfing artillery alpha in a lot of people's minds. I still think alpha and slowed rof on arty was overdone, but this is a creative solution to the alpha fleet problem. So I have to commend CCP on this one despite my initial horror at seeing what looked like a new ecm module.

And, OP, this was obviously not intended as a pve module. I think the inclusion of Marauders was simply to include all BS classes in the ability to use it for consistency sake.

So, as for pvp whether it will indeed perform as intended we will know in a month or a few weeks or so. I don't think balls will have anything to do with a decision to fit it. It will boil down to whether it can actually paritally counter an alpha fleet- whether it performs as a percent chance to survive an alpha from the get go, or instead operates as a method to speed up the threshhold of reaching a point where your fleet has killed enough alpha maels to no longer die instantly to the alpha strike. Will be interesting to see if it's stats as presently set work as intended, or not enough or too much and whether it gets altered once it has become apparent which is the situation.

edit- There you go CCP. Here's some overdue praise for your introduction of this module. o7 I'm ashamed of my flame post in the test server thread. Oops

edit 2- also, OP, you seem to think there is no tank but a mid slot tank. There are ships that low slot tank. And their logis reps activate at the end of the cycle so putting it as a mid slot is fine. Other than a DC or armor hardeners I'm presently drawing a blank as to any other active low slot item. This mod obviously need to be highly energized like most ewar (all midslot) to have an effect, and thus it is midslot.