Triest
Sniggerdly Pandemic Legion
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Posted - 2009.03.26 13:26:00 -
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Originally by: Vina Alright, as probably the most senior ECM user still playing this game, this is what should be done:
First, ECM base strengths need to be changed so that with lvl 5 ship skills the ECM effectivness with ship bonus is slightly more than a same ship class amount. so IE; griffin with caldari frigate lvl 5 (75% bonus to ecm strength + 25% from sig disp) should yield an ECM strength of 10. that keeps ECM low base strength. (base ecm strength should be 4.5 on t2)
Griffin: 10% ecm cap usage 15% ecm effectiveness
Kitsune: 10% ecm cap usage 15% ecm effectiveness 5% missile rof 5% missile velocity
Rook: 5% missile rof 5% missile velocity 30% ecm jammer strength 5% shield HP
Falcon: 25% ecm effectiveness 10% ecm optimal range 10% hybrid optimal covert cloak bonus
Blackbird: 10% ecm optimal 25% ecm effectiveness
Scorp: 50% effectiveness bonus 20% optimal range
(this will make it the only ECM ship viable in a fleet fight... as it should be)
Widow: 50% ecm effectiveness
so with a base ECM strength of 4.5 we have:
Griffin/kitsune: 9.84 on racial Blackbird/falcon: 12.6 rook: 14 Scorp/Widow: 19.68
This more closely matches sensor strengths of the ships these ships are matched with. it also matches the rook up with the widow in being kick-your-ass at close range ships (which should be reserved for t2 ships only, no t1 ecm brawlers.. lol what a stupid idea.)
As people ahve said before, the whole problem with ECM is the range/effectiveness is not balanced on a SHIP CLASS basis. that's waht needs to be fixed. Battleships should be the best, not falcon.
Dude's pretty spot on with ship bonuses. It's incredibly silly that the Falcon, being far more agile and able to warp cloaked (which is an astonishingly good ability for an electronic warfare ship) exceeds the Scorpion in performance with the proposed bonuses. I mean, I'm one of the biggest proponents of T2 ships, and it's still silly. The Scorpion is big, slow, and a dedicated battleship sized electronic warfare platform. It should have the greatest range and jamming strength of any of these vessels, and the proportional decrease going down in hull size is completely logical.
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