Player Features and Ideas Discussion

I would like to point one thing out, in that if you are trying to EWAR a super carrier, your doing it wrong (Except for neuts). You would be better off taking those 15 EWAR ships, and jamming out it's drones. Bombers already have a tough time hitting anything except a capital or a painted/webbed battleship, just imagine a tracking disruptor on each on.

With all that said, I do like the idea of a +xx strength to it's EWAR immunity instead of being flat EWAR immune. But, I feel that if this change were to be implemented, that new cap modules be introduced that increase that EWAR immunity level. That would only be fair because it would allow the super to choose between awesome tank, or being able to push past the EWAR and actually do something.

Perhaps ECM and ship sensor strength need to be reworked.


Instead of ECM having a chance hit, it instead will always hit, but will remove a set number of sensor points (sensor strength) from the targeted ship. Certain ships will be bonused to ECM, as usual.
All ships will have their sensor strength rebalanced to factor this in. Weaker ships, of course, having weaker sensors.

Certain ships will have significantly high sensor strength, mostly capitals.
Specialty ships, like Marauders in bastion, will essentially have their sensors set to infinity symbol when in bastion, to show they're completely immune.

Falloff will not longer effect ECm chance to hit, but will instead effect efficiency.
So if your ECM typically removes 5 sensor strength, it would reduce over fall off, but unlike most turrets/modules, max fall off would not be half, it would instead be 1, and anything past fall off would be 0.

Sensor strength would also effect max locked targets, with a certain number of points representing a target lock.
So, if you have 100 point sensor strength, with 10 max targets, if I take away 10 sensor strength, you lose one locked target.
This way, you can have some sort of effect, even if you don't have enough ECM to completely block the target.

ECCM modules would essentially stack on more sensor strength, requiring more ECM to lock you out as a whole, but also more ECM for each individual target lock capability.

This would not only allow ECM to be a bit more useful on non-bonused ships, but you could also be able to tactically reduce ECM to your ship by increasing falloff of the ship ECM'ing you. Thus reducing the amount of effective ECM.

So not only can you negate ECM with ECCM, but you can also negate with pilot Skill.