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What does the ECM do?
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CMDR-HerpyDerpy Hurishima
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#1 - 2017-02-23 00:49:33 UTC
What does the ECM do? i read its description but i couldnt figure out what it did. Does it stop warp scramblers or something?
thanks for the help o7
Iria Ahrens
Space Perverts and Forum Pirates
#2 - 2017-02-23 01:16:43 UTC
It extracts tears.

more specifically, it forces the target to lose lock, and thus the ability to use any module that requires a lock. It is applied randomly and effectively neutralizes the target for the duration.

It also magically makes your ship primary.

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mkint
#3 - 2017-02-23 01:46:00 UTC
When an ECM module is activated, a dice is rolled of the strength of the ECM module, versus the sensor strength of the target. If the dice rolls positive, the target gets a max targets of 0 for a short amount of time, otherwise there is no effect. This basically makes it so your target is temporarily dead and stuck in limbo, since if you can't have locked targets, there's almost nothing else you can do. It's not a very fun game mechanic and gets lots of complaints, but nobody's really been able to come up with a suitable replacement, so it's here to stay for the foreseeable future.

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Ajem Hinken
WarFear Gaming
#4 - 2017-02-23 02:13:34 UTC
mkint wrote:
When an ECM module is activated, a dice is rolled of the strength of the ECM module, versus the sensor strength of the target. If the dice rolls positive, the target gets a max targets of 0 for a short amount of time, otherwise there is no effect. This basically makes it so your target is temporarily dead and stuck in limbo, since if you can't have locked targets, there's almost nothing else you can do. It's not a very fun game mechanic and gets lots of complaints, but nobody's really been able to come up with a suitable replacement, so it's here to stay for the foreseeable future.

They're fun to use on pirates for indefinite periods of time. Kind of funny to watch a Guristas orbit you trying to shoot you but they just can't because they can't lock you...

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CMDR-HerpyDerpy Hurishima
Caldari Provisions
Caldari State
#5 - 2017-02-23 03:20:19 UTC
Thankyou for the replies everyone! this helps me out allot!
o7
Feyd Rautha Harkonnen
Doomheim
#6 - 2017-03-04 17:07:46 UTC
CMDR-HerpyDerpy Hurishima wrote:
What does the ECM do? i read its description but i couldnt figure out what it did. Does it stop warp scramblers or something?
thanks for the help o7

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