Player Features and Ideas Discussion

As currently implemented, the faction sensor strength implants are drastically underpowered in comparison to the ECM they are designed to counter. Wearing full set of LG Talons while flying a Drake, still only take the takes the chance to jam down to (approximately) 50% from a single gravimetric jammer from a Recon V Falcon. HG Talons, which I would consider an unreasonable cost for sustained 0.0/frig PvP bring this down to 33%. This is flying the race who's characteristics include high innate sensor strength.

So at the cost of six implant slots, you're looking at one jammer locking you out for 20 seconds every minute. Obviously there will be times when you are "permajammed" and others where you wonder if the Falcon isn't just shooting at you for redboxes' sake, but for fielding such a hard-counter to ECM, with no other purpose in a fight, there should be higher tangible benefits.

I propose three things:
1. Raise the advantage of the LG s/s omega to 80% instead of it's present 40% and HG s/s omega to 200% instead of it's present 100%.
2. Introduction faction racial ECCM, offering a substantial (33% or greater) benefit over regular ECCM to the Faction Warfare LP store.
3. Introduction of slot 3 jam duration reduction booster.

Raising the advantage of the omegas, vice a full set boost, would serve as something of a tradeoff to fitting, while still giving firm advantage if one was willing to trade PG to get it. Racial ECCM would be yet another lucrative item to help fund FW PvP. And finally the slot 3 jam duration reduction would greatly aid frigates, which benefit very little from the HG implants and typically don't have the spare slots for ECCM modules.

LG sets are currently around 75-90M, total. I imagine this would spike a bit due to the increase in effectiveness, especially the omega (which is currently nearly the cheapest). I don't envision it as something most newer players would get into, but honestly something like 90-120M isn't terribly out of newbie reach.

This change was reversed.

I like the gist of this idea. With unprobable taken away, the hg sensor implants were nerfed(why many got them in the first place), this would get some usefullness back. Given cost and pita of cyber 5 for the omega, if they can't make you disappear off scans they may as well increase jam proofing.


actual percentage would have to be worked out on sisi. To be fair to falcon pilots, if they took the time to 5 everything there should be no untouchable ships. But 200 might be reasonable. tengu with sensor sub, hg talons, eccm and sensor backup is still jammable (I am against gurista anyway, not sure of player jams). haven't had coffee yet to work out numbers, that should be a decent amount over 100.

Faction eccm mods be nice as well. Again, no unprobable so it won't be used for that. Faction would be cost limited since some like cheaps builds. For those that don't mind price as much, they get some options.

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Nice changes. This way, you can be nearly unprobable without ECCM, only implants.