
Gospadin
Bastard Children of Poinen Grumpy Space Bastards
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Posted - 2016.02.12 03:11:38 -
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Aliventi wrote:This would be a great time to make ECM more unified with the other EWAR variants. ECM is the only module that has different racial types. I think it would be far more valuable to make ECM a single module with racial scripts to bring it in line with SD/TD. I think it would also be beneficial to remove signal amplifiers as no other EWAR has a way to boost effectiveness. Of course removing signal amplifiers would preferably be compensated by a slight buff to ECM strength.
The reason I advocate for these changes is to give ECM ships opportunities to act more like other EWAR ships. Because ECM has racial modules you are driven to fit at least one of each racial ECM module to prevent the case where you are less effective on the battlefield because you are missing a racial jammer. By changing ECM to be a single module with scripts it would allow ECM ships to need fewer ECM modules, and free up slots for tank. This would allow ECM ships to have the capability present in other EWAR ships of being able to fit enough tank to stay on the field. There would still be those who would fit max jammers. They would pay because they would be easy to kill, just as any other EWAR ship that fix max EWAR. A single ECM module with racial scripts would unlock ECM ships that can stay on field and keep fighting, instead of ECM ships that warp in at max range and warp out as soon as they get shot. That's a choice present in every other EWAR ships and should be available to ECM ships.
Something like this is what I was hoping for.
Make the script take, say, 30s to add or remove from the module. You can prep 1 or 2 ECM modules with scripts that you expect to use, but in the meantime, you roll with multispectral until you think you can spare 30s.
Honestly, having 7000 different ECM modules to juggle is annoying. |

Gospadin
Bastard Children of Poinen Grumpy Space Bastards
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Posted - 2016.02.12 22:07:02 -
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The above points are great.
It should be a single, multi-spectral-by-default module.
Script for racial strength... Maybe have two versions of each race's scripts, one shorter range and stronger, and one longer range and weaker.
Somewhere between 30s and 60s to load or change scripts.
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