Player Features and Ideas Discussion

ECM should have ALWAYS been high slot items ... you should have to sacrifice firepower for ECM .. I suggested this the last time they decided to revamp it .. like 3-4 years ago ... High slot ECM

if you are fearing the medium rails of a falcon or the cruise of a a scorpion....you got issues. Hence why they are usually backed up by other ships, they can jam but thats about it. Slow and underpowered these are nowhere no where as combat effective as even a rapier. A rapier I would happily leave sit on a bubble dropped by a passing dictor. I know they can actually kill carefully chosen targets (why I actually x-trained for them....I died to a few good bubble sitters in rapiers and said I want me some of that lol). Falcon can't do this no where near as readily.


Its also the mid slots that balance them out. As said above, jammers usually cannot tank. They either run no tank with jam mods in low and rigs or if they do tank its the ghetto armour tank that can take up a big portion of a logi chains attentions to keep alive if enough burn/outwiegh the jams to keep up an running. Thats if the logi's are there.


You don't want falcon and scorpion ecm high slotted. That gets them their best tank back. And the pilots would not miss their weapons. I personally fit weapons to make the fit sock sniffers with ocd happy. I accpeted they were useless, the powers that be wanted them thee anyway so I fit them to make all happy. I even put in non t2 weapons when not trained for t2.....I was there to jam not be monster dps (which medium rails can't be even it it wanted too).

1. Unscrew the range, that change only lead to offensive EW (webs, points and painters) going "OP" and serving blobs.
2. Make ECM unique cycle / effect dependent so you can only run one cycle (hit or miss) at a time per target.
3. This makes "brute forcing", stacking ECM to compensate lost cycles on individual ships, go away and help few/small.
4. It also makes ECCM a more powerful tactical individual module since any miss on you is 20s of freedom to do ill.
5. Remove racial modules and create scripts to compensate so ECM-platforms don't "need" 4+ ECM mods at all times.

This will help small gang roaming since every larger gang you encounter won't be a bubble-point-web-paint gatecamp that takes that grid and pushes everything off it while bleeding you of every ship that is caught by the LR point-web lynchpins and destroyed by LR weapons in a 100km sphere of death. How do you counter that now? You don't, which is why many of you are having Cruiser play-at-war in lowsec artificially banning half the mods in the game and refuse to fight even 1:2.

This will help solo-small players since they will not be "brute-forced" every time one or two Falcons pop up around that lowsec gate to kill all joy and fun out of your heroic active-tanked, pirate implanted and pilled faction BS pwning all them nubs in BC burning into your web-neut range and taking clips for your next serious spaceship drama series.

This will help ECM pilots everywhere at flying a more interesting ship that can choose a balance between tank, damage and EWar like every other Recon, rather than just choosing a 1-2 slot core buffer and spend the remaining 10+ slots on maximizing it's ECM. Hopefully it will normalize around some 5-6 slots devoted to ECM that could be useful while still balanced, scalable and enjoyable for all sides (except the drooling, vindictive misanthropic plebs).

Everybody wins!