I posted this topic before and it got locked.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

I think ECM should stop being a Caldari specialization. Rather each race should have ECM bonuses for their racial enemy's ships:

Minmatar get Radar ECM bonuses
Gallente get Gravimetric ECM bonuses
Caldari get Megnetometric ECM bonuses
Amarr get Ladar ECM bonuses

As for the other forms of EW, simply give each race a different way to make use of it:

Caldari: EW Optimal (not ECM)
Gallente: EW Cap Use
Amarr: EW Duration
Minmatar: EW Falloff

This would affect all TP, RSD, TDs, etc.

ECM would have similar bonuses on all current EW ships.

This makes ECM less about spamming Falcons and more about actual tactical target counter jamming

The only major change to ships needed for this to work is a remastery of the Scorpion. Ideas on how to handle that are many. My thought is make it like the old Typhoon with 8 hi slots, and a hybrid damage bonus and a missile RoF bonus 4/4 turret/launcher split. Remove two midslots. Increase fittings 40%.

There's nothing tactical about having to put up with pure 100% chance on whether your ship can ever contribute to the fight or not. "Tactical" implies meaningful choice and adaptation, not showing up in the wrong ship that can't contribute at all.

"Insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." - Albert Einstein

But they do dislike the binary nature of ECM, or so I hear. And they do have plans to change up EWar in general... but nobody really knows how they intend to do it.

... but if you are in the right ships, your weapons do not need the cap to run and you still do dps. Scared of being scrammed, use afterburner and so forth....

There's nothing tactical about having to put up with pure 100% chance on whether your ship can ever contribute to the fight or not. "Tactical" implies meaningful choice and adaptation, not showing up in the wrong ship that can't contribute at all.

ECM has already been nerfed. It's fine.

There's no such thing as 100% chance to jam; having flown ECM boats with very good skills, I can attest to that fact.

Showing up in the wrong ship that can never contribute... isn't that statement the antithesis of what I proposed? The idea here is to stop one ship from being the correct choice 99.9875% of the time. There is a reason that the Caldari EW ships are several times more common than the that of the other races'. Because ECM is the universally good EW.

Target Painting can barely be considered EW, Nos/Neuting is not even a little bit EW, and Web/Scrams are as common as Multispec ECMs used to be. Tracking Disruption is not universal, though that seems to be changing. Remote Sensor Dampeners have been considered useless since they are no longer an I Win Button. But everyone still rocks the ECM and they will continue to do so until it is not the end game point conversion victory condition.

So the obvious solution is to balance ECM without 'nerfing' ECM. And the only way to do that is to have it be more situation based rather than universal.

An Electronic Warfare Paradigm Shift is the only way to move forward. Universal Jamming is no fun for anyone. I use ECM drones, and I don't care what that makes anyone think of me any more than the fleets rocking 30% Falcons do.

There's no such thing as 100% chance to jam; having flown ECM boats with very good skills, I can attest to that fact.

Sounds like your "solution" is to break ECM and make it useless like what happened to sensor damps.

I posted this topic before and it got locked.
The reason why i feel ecm boats should be nerfed is because they are way way overpowered.
A good skilled falcon pilot can perma jam at over 50km. I have been in fights(not with this toon) where a falcon is jamming over 90 to 110km.
If this is a game of pvp, the pvp should be balanced.
Lets take a look at nuets. A person could nuet you out, but if you are in the right ships, your weapons do not need the cap to run and you still do dps. Scared of being scrammed, use afterburner and so forth.
Use Eccm you say, that stuff does not work, and if the falcon pilot has two ecm for your ship, you are still jammed up to 10 seconds or more.
Flew a cyclone with eccm and jackal implants in one fight and still got jammed.
How is this fair
Say I am flying a hurri, which does around 600dps, being jammed for 10 seconds is alot of dps.
Why not make it so that when a falcon perma jamms or jams over x amount of seconds, it will have the chance of self destructing.
Either nerf ecm boats or give more power to eccm, or have a special midslot for eccm.