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.

Honestly this is what I thought would be happening now that Citadal ECM is to be used with racial scripts. Adding this in improves the usability of the module, and enables you to adjust on-the-fly versus being locked in to a certain type.

keep duinbing down your game for idiots who cant remember which ECM module is against which race.
Why dont you rename "radar" to "amarr", "ladar" to "minmatar" etc.. while you are at it, makes it even easier for rtards.

Or go even one step further and get rid of race names and call them like red, green, yellow and blue maybe? For those who cant deal with race names and mix them together. This would make sure even the least intelligent moron would be able to safely apply right ewar modules onto enemy ships.

So uhh 90% of all tiercides make meta useless compared to t2.

Stop moaning about ECM. This is the wrong thread for that. You want to have the mechanic changed, then go open a thread in Player Features and Ideas Discussion forum.

As for ECM... this is a nerf. Aside from much more common use of ECCM, simply fitting an equivalent strength ECM module will now cost 10 extra CPU per module and require 20 additional cap per cycle per module. While the CPU change doesn't really matter at present (the Rook in particular is already grossly over-specified in that department), it will matter if you ever rebalance the hulls and it is going to make cap stable ECM more difficult, and therefore increase the value of Neuts as an ECM counter. This is especially true given the slot limitations making fitting tank, ECM and now cap mods in mid slots an impossible challenge.

And to the people saying that the modules should be scripted instead of racially aligned, why in the world would you want to give people a ecm ship that could instantly swap around it's jamming strengths!? Combat refitting is already on its way out and you want to reintroduce one of it's many symptoms straight away...

I agree. From the current Meta 4 to the new T2. I get zero increase in jam strength at the cost of an 50% increase in CPU cost and 53% increase in cap cost (assuming duration is unchanged).

For ECM Bust modules,

Instead of having 5 separate ecm modules.
How about having 1 module that has the same stats as the multi spec jammer when unscripted.
And have racial scripts..
Allowing ecm ships to change scripts on the fly..

Our would that be to OP somehow?