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Gazon
Amarr
1st Praetorian Guard
Vigilia Valeria
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Posted - 2006.10.23 12:40:00 -
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Generally I think that is a step in the right direction. Us Amarr-only users will be stuffed, of course, but that's one of the drawbacks you take on.
I'm curious to see the numbers since it would be bad if the dedicated ECM ships became even more powerful than they are now. If they have to sacrifice their tank for that, fine, but please, significantly. I mean that if a Scorp/BB/Griffin pilot wants to make sure that he can instapermajam then he must sacrifice at least 66% of his lowslots to balance the fact that he can effectively take several enemy ships out of the fight. You see that I am coming from an Amarr vs. mixed fleet, small engagement point of view.
In fact, if the EW modules would depend on racial ship bonuses to be effective I'm sure we would see much more fights either without an overuse of EW or with a more balanced EW (Gallente using Dampener, Amarr Tracking Disruptors, Caldari ECM and Minmatar... err... Target Painters  ).
One last point: we've also tweaked the cpu need of ECCM and backup arrays a bit.
Please define "tweak" 
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Gazon
Amarr
1st Praetorian Guard
Vigilia Valeria
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Posted - 2006.10.23 12:45:00 -
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 Originally by: Leandro Salazar
Make ECCM activation recalc all jamming on you, and if the jammer loses that calc, the jam is terminated. Seeing how ECCM has a faster cycle than ECM, I think this might be the feature that actually makes ECCM a viable fitting option.
I like that idea, very good. Gives the victim a real counter chance.
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Gazon
Amarr
1st Praetorian Guard
Vigilia Valeria
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Posted - 2006.10.23 12:51:00 -
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Originally by: Colwyn
It's a step in the right direcion but I do still think the whole ecm system needs a complete overhaul. Having it based on a 'dice roll' is still just a little bit too lame imho.
Somewhere I read about giving the ECM modules a minimum range meaning that a ship if it manages to close on the EW boat could just burn through the jam due to close range and lock anway. This would open quite a few tactical opportunities (have dedicated ECM killers with MWD) and necessities (Have ECM defenders with webs to intercept ECM killers).
Well, just food for thought anhow :)
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