Player Features and Ideas Discussion

TL;DR - Make ECM like a Taunt - The jammed target's systems are locked to only be able to target the ship that is jamming the target.

The general idea would be to remove the ludicrous range on ECM, and replace any range bonus's on ECM with tank bonuses.

This will not be a nerf for what I think is ECM's primary reason for existence - shutting down enemy logistics (as logistics ships generally cannot apply any damage). But the days of a griffin or blackbird jamming 1-4 combat targets in complete safety are over, unless the ECM's fleet is able to keep the targets away from the ECM ship.

This is a fairly well tested gameplay mechanic - take League of Legends for example. The tank classes are low dps, often have ways to force the enemy players to target them, but they are not invincible by any means. They rely on the rest of their team to help keep them alive.

Few points

a) The locking diagram is if you are jammed, you can lock whoever is jamming you.
b) About potency - the jam isn't 100% chance, there is still the same mechanic now affected by eccm etc. ECM does not become any more potent.

True,


Well the Falcon is where most the ECM problem comes from. Pocket Falcons are a annoyance but if you are doing it right you can end up with 2 nice kills instead of one.

The only change to ECM that I will support is one that changes from a total jam to singular target breaking per successful cycle of the ECM module

ECM doesn't seem broken to me to be honest. It is powerful when it works, but laughable when it fails. Main changes to ECM I would personally like to see is for ECM drones to only break lock as opposed to ECMing people completely. Even having other E-War drones scaled up would be nice, essentially I hate the fact that ECM drones - when they work have the same stopping power of bringing another player in a blackbird with you. It requires minimal investment on the part of the pilot for too much benefit, though I do like the idea of having those drones to help players escape.

Maulus is also a very good counter for Griffins. As sensor dampening as griffin removes its "Tank" by forcing it to close on the battle.

not really solving much. In mid to large scale fights what I did was wait for FC's calls. Primary and secondary names given....down I went to say 4-8 on the list for jamming.

Reason being in larger scale fights jamming the primary was a waste of time. Primary called, its dying fast. I didn't jam secondary....he's dying soon too, wasted cycle(s). Tertiary was iffy, sometimes I hit em sometimes I jsut went for number 4 in the ov list.

So I jam 4-8 on the ov list to limit their effectiveness. they take no damage the whole time until FC makes the new primary call. And when they get called primary...they aer dying fast. Oh noze my jams stop working for you at 50% armour. Sadly, that primary call got you there in 2 huge salvo's....you are dead regardless.

To be honest when I saw FC slide primary to targets 4-8, I killed my jams by hand anyway most times. You got your targetting back and I went further down the list. You if target 4 or 5 were dead soon anyway, you maybe getting 1 volley off not stopping that lol. My jams better applied to targets 9-12.