Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I like flying around in my ECM boat and jamming people out with it, but I dont do it very often because I am always engageing different peolple and dont know what they will be flying. With as thin as a falcon is I would rather take something with dps than a ship that cant lock out a hurricane because i didnt fit a minmatar ecm. If all ecm's were based as multi frequency with the ability to use scripts to adjust for the different racial I would definetaly fly it more. Doing this would make an ECM boat more flexible and would increase their survivability. If this as been mentioned before I appoligize but I searched and did not find anything.

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This is a good idea. Not only racial scripts, but scripts for ECM strength over range, or range over ECM strenght.

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Alot of the other EWAR Modules have scripts.

Each script could boost the race specific strength, but not as much as the race-specific jammer modules.

For example.
Multispectral Jammer
Gravametric 2
Magnetometric 2
Radar 2
Ladar 2

Mutispectral Jammer with a Ladar script
Gravametric 1.5
Magnetometric 1.5
Radar 1.5
Ladar 2.5

Ladar Jammer
Gravametric 1
Magnetometric 1
Radar 1
Ladar 3

A script to increase jammer strength over range could look like
Gravametric 2.2
Magnetometric 2.2
Radar 2.2
Ladar 2.2
Optimal Range -50%
Fall Off -50%

How about this.

Eliminate racial specific jammers and only have Multispecs as the base module. There will be 4 scripts, augmenting each specific jamming type, but doing it at range penalties.

Currently the Multispectral Jammer is in the wrong configuration so it will need to be changed.

Note: Numbers are pulled from Evelopedia.

Current configuration (Tech 2) | New configuration (Tech2)

Optimal Range: 17.82 (21.38)-->26.73 (32.08)
Accuracy Falloff: 19.80 (23.76)-->29.70 (35.64)

The Scripts will be something like this:

(Racial) Jamming Script

80% Increase in (Racial) Jamming Strength
100% Decrease in non(Racial) Jamming Strength
50% Decrease in Range
50% Decrease in Falloff

This will make it so full strength racial jams will have to have the right script in, and also require the ECM boat to be closer to the target.

ECM Range Extender Script

40% decrease in Jam Strength
100% increase in Optimal Range
100% increase in Falloff

Having more than 5 scripts is a little to much, but whatever, I still like the idea. The seperation of the range script and the racial jamming scripts will make it so you either have a weak jam at extreme range (sniping) or a strong jam within disruptor range (not a place an ECM boat wants to be). I believe that this will make it so the ECM platforms will be more viable as they will be more likely to fit a tank, rather than just rely on there jamming.

Naw, if I could just fit a couple ecm's and have every race covered by reloadable scripts I could have a tank and that would just be too awesome.... I wasn't that good this year.