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I agree that the RNG is a weird mechanic, but since turrets also have it, it's not really that weird (though i do think having falloff for the ecm might be an interesting idea). On the other hand, if you think it takes no skill to use, i would say that you are smoking something. That said, this is an interesting idea, but it would definitely require the caldari ewar ships to get bonuses to reduce cycle time.

I take it you don't fly ECM its the most skill intensive e-war in the game

its not show up, lock, jam this is generally only the case when you have a crap tone of jams and why i think it needs the stacking penalty i mentioned before.

for one you should never have more Green jams then you have targets. you also need to know when to activate your next jam or hold it in case something else comes. you need to know when its worth using an off racial jam. you need to know when to start aligning and when to warp. once you start working with damps it gets even more complex and none of this even touches the pre-flight fitting.

and when they do work they are no stronger than properly used damps

I was looking everywhere for this quote, thank you

I agree mostly about the ECM problem has now, ecm can be applied or not, sometimes work and sometimes dont, but any tracking disruptor, energy nos or neut or sensor dampener will work as soon as the target is locked and never stop until death of the ships, ships that can for the most part tank and do ewar, while the ecm ship is sometimes useful, sometimes useless and can die easily.

I agree with many here about the Racial type argument, however its not so much that u would need to know before hand who u will be fighting so to fit the right module. That mechanic I think is too much to ask of most new people and smaller groups. and It usually means the default is to use a multi-spectrum.

I realize CCP have reams of logs showing I'm wrong and that people actually do use racial in fights, but I'm sure that is mostly because the majority of the numbers are from big alliances fighting other big alliances who already know what their ship doctrine is, same for ECCM, etc.. There is more than one way to interpret many of these charts we get shown of how often things are used in the game.

But my suggestion is to make virtually all 'Assistance' modules (like drone damage, drone navigation, Eccm, ECM, Weapon enhancement modules, etc) to be scriptable. This would do things like:

Allow one Jammer/tracking disruptor type Module to be fitted and like ammo they can change the script to match any race or jam/disruption type. And with no script would be multispectrum. and like ammo various tiers of script could have bonus to cap, cpu use, strength , etc.

replace all Drone mods with one module that gets its effect thru use of scripts that allow bonuses that all the mods have now - IE. Damage, tracking, etc., This would work especially in well in the drones that don't get much use now, like web, target painting drones, etc.

Dropping various modules in the game, that now have many versions, replacing them with one mod that uses scripts would also make it easy to add new effects to the game down the road - just introduce a new script into the game - such as when using ECM drones u could boost their strength, damage, Control range, Speed, DPS, range, racial type of ECM, as well as many new bonus or effects not thought of yet - just by switching scripts. So instead of dropping various tiers of modules as loot, it would drop various scripts.

I know there are (old) reasons for having Module Tiers and this idea may cause me to be trolled, but on the positive side give it some thought as to how you would use swapping scripts in combat as the nature of the combat changes from beginning to end of a fight - and how many new tactics would be available with a feature such as this. It would also save some slots for fitting other things and the more modules u have the stronger the effects u can do or the more u could do at one time.

Just my 2-cents worth on the idea

Same here

I agree - but there would be a flood of tears if the "perma-damps" changed to being effective for 4 seconds followed by a 20 second cool down .

Maybe even apply the logic to the "perma-Tracking disruptors" so while being orbited by a kite I get shoot with normal tracking for 20 seconds followed by 4 seconds of tracking loss.

When you look at how the other e-war mods work ECM is a bit of a poor cousin.
Tho the stacking ECM for perma jam sounds nice... click 4 sec jam, click 4 second jam , click 4 second jam, 5 clicks and you perma jam anything - where's my Falcon with all those mid slots

your plan is interesting, but with how your idea works, odds are a good ecm ship can do this while a newer player would get blown to spacedust.