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ACE81
Sacred Sacrifice
#1 - 2012-05-17 10:29:50 UTC  |  Edited by: ACE81
Made this comment in Ships and mods and seems to have gotten a few likes for it so I will repost it here for discussion and perhaps Dev attention perhaps not but you never know.

ACE81 wrote:
Hmm Ewar could be made more fun if it only broke locks no jamming timer with reduced cycle times to make up for no more jamming timer. then the only penalty would be how long it would take to reacquire a lock to fire.

Just my 2 isk


Kaikka Carel wrote:
Completely agree. Also it would have a natural scaling as for bigger size vessels it takes longer to reaquire the lock. Also it might bring back scan resolution damps as a part of EWAR combo.
Vinn Kelsier
State War Academy
Caldari State
#2 - 2012-05-17 10:39:42 UTC
Not to sound like a noob but, EWAR is broken?

Vinn
Tchulen
Trumpets and Bookmarks
#3 - 2012-05-17 10:40:05 UTC
This is the first suggestion on altering ECM mechanics that doesn't make me want to find the OP and perform unanesthetized open heart surgery on them.

Your suggestion actually makes some sense.

Mind you, you might get some haters as it will mean that Falcon alts are suddenly not so appealing.
ACE81
Sacred Sacrifice
#4 - 2012-05-17 11:08:12 UTC
No Ewar is not broken just in some situations it comes across as OP.

Thank you for not wanting perform painful surgery on me.

And falcons would still be very useful especially against anything with a low scan resolution. could potentially still perma jam a target if there scan res was reduced with a sensor damp loaded with proper script.
ACE81
Sacred Sacrifice
#5 - 2012-05-21 03:16:14 UTC
Surprised this didn't get a discussion going? Guess people like being stunned for 20 seconds at a time. Roll
Idris Mandela
Tribal Liberation Force
Minmatar Republic
#6 - 2012-05-21 05:02:47 UTC
Hmmm.. It actually makes...sense!

+1
Spugg Galdon
Federal Navy Academy
Gallente Federation
#7 - 2012-05-21 08:42:36 UTC
The only issue with ECM right now is the balance of ECM drones. They're so effective it is unreal. In general you need a racial jammer to be effective with ECM. An omni ECM jammer is mostly ineffective however, drones are omni and are far more powerful than their equivalent modules.

A simple rebalance and some heavy stacking penelaties to prevent ECM drone swarms which I see far too often needs to be implemented.

Otherwise. ECM is working as intended and is just fine. it's the other EWAR that is a little underpowered and needs buffed to ECM levels (Sensor damps, I'm looking at you!)
Colonel Xaven
Perkone
Caldari State
#8 - 2012-05-21 08:44:57 UTC
Not as terrible as the ideas before, but Im afraid with the new lock breaker mod any complete re-design of ECM this way is pretty redundant.

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ACE81
Sacred Sacrifice
#9 - 2012-05-21 09:03:42 UTC
Well in a way it would fix the ECM drones as well as they would only be able to break the current targets locks with no timer penalty's the defender could have time to shoot the drones down if he had a sensor booster to allow quick locks(would make frigates very important early on in fleet fights for more then just tackling).

And I thought the lock breaker mod was to prevent people from locking on to you?