Crewman Jenkins
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Posted - 2006.07.03 19:09:00 -
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Edited by: Crewman Jenkins on 03/07/2006 19:12:02
Since sensors and the action of jamming have to do with radar waves or somesuch being overwhelmed with "noise", I dont like the idea of jamming specific modules unless you have a targeting array for each module. Who wants to target the same guy 9 times?
I think a way to keep it similar to how it is now, but still harder to jam would be the use of a channel(frequency) selection system. Each ship has a range of frequencies it can use to target, these frequencies would be ..perhaps on a 1 through 10 channel range.
So Im flying through space in my battlecruiser and I have selected that I want to target on frequency/channel 2. My target has a jammer...now he can choose to do "spot jamming" by attemping to guess what channel I am using and then jam it, or he can choose "barrage jamming" and jam all frequencies at a much weaker effectiveness.
Maybe there could be a way for my target to figure out what channel I am using by cycling through them with his jamming channel selector once he has targeted me. Maybe the player would see "targeting data" or something. Then perhaps you could go deeper and give me the ability to select passive or active targeting...passive would make it almost impossible to detect what channel I was using, but I would get a horrid resolution penalty.
maybe depending on how many jammers a person has, they have a ECM power value, one jammer is equal to so many power points, another gives you 1.5 times that. So you can distribute these power points per channel if you want. theres all kinds of possibilities.
now maybe instead of sensor strength boosters(60% to radar, ladar, etc) you could fit a secondary targeting array. This would allow one to target using two frequencies instead of just one. The module would have its own resolution value and range value, so to make it truely an independent targeting system. If you chose to use it on the same frequency as your main targeting array, you would get a boost in resolution and perhaps range.
once on the correct frequency the jamming calculations would pretty much be the same. However, if you are jammed and have no backup..or both are jammed, you cannot target back for the entire 20 second period. What you can do is pick a new channel while jammed..then once the time is up..target back on a different frequency.
This is a bit choppy, and Im sure there are holes in it...any thoughts?
edit: some spelling
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