So when drones, a delayed damage, destroyable weapon system got ODTLs and ODTEs there was no intent to add anti-drone EWAR, yet when you add similar modules for missiles, you intend to add anti-missile EWAR. Seems legit.

I'm getting pretty ******* tired of drones being king.

Of course ecm and damps don't effect turrets as well And flying in a way to reduce tracking doesn't either.

Your list is only firewall. That was never meant to be the counter to missiles. It was created to address the lack of a dedicated antimissile ewar when Drakes were everywhere.

Edit, also you're not taking into account to fit these new modules you either a ) give up dps for trading in a BCU or b) give up EHP with losing a mid slot that would be used for shields

So you are treating the symptoms again, rather than the disease. Speed meta is the disease.

I would presume it is at least a little bit of the former.

Rightfully so, people regularly ask when heavies and HAMs are going to be worthwhile; currently they can't apply their damage in most situations without lots of help. LMLs and RLMLs are at the top of the weapon system heap, half because they are so good, and half because everything out there worth flying is so fast and small. HAMs and heavies work just fine against battlecruisers and battleships, but they still aren't exactly common outside of niche situations, so fitting the bigger missule systems is often a poor choice. It would be better to see where HAMs and heavies fall after they tone down the speed and kite meta, which is a good deal of the reason why HAMs and heavies are so useless.

No one would be complaining about HAMs if there were great herds of battlecruisers roaming the expanses of New Eden.

I'm not entirely sure where the idea actually originates from. Pretty much every permutation of giving one weapon or tank system's uniqueness to another has been suggested here or elsewhere for as long as I've been around. I don't think it's possible or relevant to know where it actually came from.

The timing of it is suspicious is all, which implicates it as a response (re: band aid fix) for missiles to the meta. Before the warp changes, bigger missiles weren't actually too bad because people actually few BCs and sometimes even BS. Now that the warp changes have been around for a good while, and the full consequences of it are established on the meta, this seems a response to the terrible usage metrics of the bigger missile systems. Basically, its been wanted for a very long time, but only in an era when the bigger missile systems are functionally worthless is it seeing the light of day.

No less absurd than fixing bombers by gutting fleet warp, but here we are.