EVE General Discussion

So the enemy had 2 tackle, ewar and presumably dps ships vs 1 cerb. Now imagine ecm is gone but the enemy still has 3 brain cells and similar amount if ships. Instead of a blackbird they bring a celestis and put 4 sensor dampeners on you. You can't lock the ceptor scramming you at 10 km and there is 0 chance of rng allowing you to do so. Now people scream "nerf damps". Next step is logi, because if the enemy has 5 brain cells they will bring logistics and stay in logi range. You can shoot but you can't kill anything. See a pattern here?


How about an anti-ecm charge, loaded into the old sebo. Instead of running eccm script that only lessens the chance of next jam, using the module with charge loaded would break ecm/damp effect mid cycle (and consume the charge). Somewhat expensive, but cheap enough so solo roamers can carry them like navy cap boosters and have a chance to get on top of the falcon or blap tackle if they time it right.

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Change ECM to 100% chance to increase the target's lock timers by a X%, and re-apply the current RNG roll (at a reduced rate) to instead break an existing lock on a lucky roll, to require a subsequent new delayed lock by the target.

This should get rid of permajam and yet maintain ECM usefulness even in 1v1.

Thus, instead of ECM preventing locks (which is crap), it will delay locks (for sure) and break locks (on RNG).

I'd really like to see RNG thrown into the garbage.

What about this? Keep your idea the same, but no RNG. First cycle increases target's lock timer. Second cycle breaks target lock (and maybe jams for a bit). Repeat.

Or have them scriptable. You have increase target lock timer script, and target lock-breaking script. Target lock breaker has a relatively long cycle, and breaks target lock at the end of the cycle, maybe jamming for a bit after.

The cycle times and what not would have to be adjusted so no one is perma-jammed, and has at least some counter-play available.

The Darth Jam Coefficient (DJC).

Well, I did say this:



In other words, adjust the cycle time to get whatever nerf or buff effect you want. A guaranteed jam once every 5 minutes is a nerf to what we have now. A guaranteed jam once every second is a buff to what we have now. There is a lot of room to play with.

If people like RNG, that's fine with me I guess. But personally, I have no use for it. In the words of Einstein, "God doesn't play dice games."

Don't know why we are arguing about this. It certainly wasn't my intent.

Perhaps the confusion is here. I didn't intend for any effect (lock delay, lock break, jam, etc) to last the entire cycle. I intended a 'cooldown' effect to be built into each cycle. For instance, for guaranteed 'jam' or 'lock break,' you'd click the module, and it would start cycling. Towards the end of the cycle, the jam would occur. Or, you could have it at the beginning. But the point is, it would be EFFECT - COOLDOWN - EFFECT - COOLDOWN.

So obviously if a cycle lasts 10 minutes, then it DOESN'T "far exceed the current ECM situation." If a cycle lasts 1 second, then it does. Again I will say that the cycle time is adjustable, and there is a lot of room to play with here.