SLIM
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Posted - 2006.06.19 00:04:00 -
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Edited by: SLIM on 19/06/2006 00:06:17
Well, if everyone keeps seeing threads on the same topics, maybe it's because the posters have a point.  Crazy thought, I know. And maybe, since EVE is a pvp game, the people who balance it should get on to doing that.
ECM is overpowered. That's a fact. The whole chance based method is quite frankly ridiculous. "But," you protest, "all the guns are chance based as well!" Well, that is true, but one hit does not often decide the outcome of a ship battle, obviously sniper vs inty is an exception, but on the whole, BS vs BS combat is not decided by wreckings. The sheer number of "dice rolls" due to turrets are much higher. Many times, it is in the hundreds. For your average fight, ECM dice roll only 3-5 times. There is much less averaging, and more variance. This takes the decision out of the hands of the player, and into the hands of chance. Obviously, that is crap.
So, how to fix it? Well, we could go back to the old way. Not only did it make sense, but it wasn't terribly imbalanced. We could even keep our new falloff characteristics and everything.
Yes, this means that a scorpion will be able to fend off several interceptors by itself. Good on it. Guess what, so can a nos domi. So can a phoon. Sorry, but the whine about smaller ships getting hit is pretty lame. Smaller ships are still plenty useful, especially if they have (tada!) dampeners.
Even if we don't go back to the old way, ECCM REALLY needs fixing. For one simple reason. ECCM gimps your setup. Therefore, in order to use it, you need to be reasonably sure that your opponent is also gimping his setup by devoting his slots to ECM. Compare this to the ECM person, who KNOWS that whatever ship he faces will be at least somewhat vulnerable to jamming (bar a dreadnaught or bigger). The ECM person incurs no risk, his module WILL be useful. Compare this to the person with ECCM. If he runs into someone without ECM, well then he's just wasted precious module slots on something that will help him not at all.
Thus we can see, in order for it to be VIABLE to fit ECCM, it needs to be massively favorable compared to ECM. I've read that there is a 60% boost in. I hope that is a flat addition, not a percentage increase. Otherwise, it's still totally useless.
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