If multiple ships are multispectrum jamming one target, will that target eventually be perma-jammed, given enough ships?

It is a game of chance. Similar to when I take a gallentean fleet of 40 against 1-2 wartargets. You see my friend, the Caldari are a very formative enemy and I risk losing the entire fleet.

As ECM is a similar chance based mechanic, there is always the chance of survival.

Awesome character, awesome name! Hairdo is pretty good too.

Wondering about the etymology of the name..

X Gallentius in the name and hair
Deen Wispa in the name (and possibly the sunnies? been a while since I saw the portrait)

Where does the 1-st and Bender come from?

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basically in a hypothetical where 1 mod has 50% chance to jam, 2 would have 75%, 3 87.5% ect.
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I have to disagree. If 1 mod got a chance of 50% then 2 mods stilll got the chance of 50% - but 2 times (Laplace).

Sidenote:
Hypothetical you could view your 50% jam chance from your post in boolean 'Yes i jam' and 'no jam,sry guys'.
If you-¦re now moving your ship in a perfect (and closed) system where all results are equaly distributed you-¦ll allready
hit a 100% jam-chance with 2 mods (with 50% chance to jam).

Though i might be VERY wrong and just bored at work.

EDIT:

No, it-¦s not additive. If you have a poor little bugger attacking your scorpion / falcon / rook fleet and you activate 1000 ecms on him (each 50% jam-chance) you still have a chance of 50% to jam him for each module. It-¦s not 99.9999999999%.

i like to note that jamming cause cancer so better to not use it.

Basic stats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution

If you flip it around, try to find the probability of 0 successes, and subtract that from 1.

basically in a hypothetical where 1 mod has 50% chance to jam, 2 would have 75%, 3 87.5% ect.

i like to note that jamming cause cancer so better to not use it.

I have to disagree. If 1 mod got a chance of 50% then 2 mods stilll got the chance of 50% - but 2 times (Laplace).

Basic stats - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binomial_distribution

If you flip it around, try to find the probability of 0 successes, and subtract that from 1.

If multiple ships are multispectrum jamming one target, will that target eventually be perma-jammed, given enough ships?

Actually, this is much more akin to a Geometric Distribution

Thing is, the Geometric Distribution is effectively a subset of Bernoulli's.

"The probability distribution of the number of X Bernoulli trials needed to get one success"

Pretty much the same thing, and for the given question the Geometric distribution is easier to calculate. However, I tend to use Bernoulli's because I can look at the distribution and see things like "20% of the time, I'll have 2 successes which means I'll be able to try and jam a different target with my free jammer".

Be honest. You just wanted to throw in those words so you can sound smarter than the rest of us.

I thought I kept my language pretty plain and to the point... :(

I actually do this pretty much every time I am sizing up a target with ECM drones or a griffin.

Also, I thought that a large percentage of eve players were Computer Science guys, and this is first year stats.

Also, I thought that a large percentage of eve players were Computer Science guys, and this is first year stats.

I thought they said ecm is addictive. Yes it certainly is. Once a player learns of its true power, he never flies without an ecm alt again.

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and ECM is boring, what's the fun in shootin something that can't shoot back?

ECM is not additive. As far as I understand it, it works like this:

Each point of jam strength on a single ECM jammer increases the chance of a successful jam and each point of sensor strength (native, skill, ECCM, etc.) on the target decreases it. Each seperate ECM jammer is, in effect, an entirely seperate "re-roll." The effects of one ECM jammer on one ship do not have any effect on the success of a jammer on another ship - in fact, they don't even have any effect on any other ECM jammers on the same ship. More jammers mean more re-rolls, thus increasing the number of chances you get to jam someone during a given 20 second period. Given that unlike sensor dampening, target painting and tracking disruption, the effect of ECM is a binary state rather than a sliding scale, the optimal method of ECMing multiple targets would be to carefully and methodically cycle through your jammers until you get a successful jam and then move on to the next target, since after the first successful jam cycle drops, all subsequent jam cycles on the same target are completely wasted until the first cycle ends.

Because of this system there is always a variable non-zero probability (usually small) that all jam cycles on a given ship will fail. Ironically, from a theoretical perspective at least, this makes ECM the least reliable form of e-war.

Ironically, from a theoretical perspective at least, this makes ECM the least reliable form of e-war.

Good thing we care about how effective it is, not how reliable =P