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[Thorqemada]

Anything with more than 30 LRM Tubes is a "LRM-Boat" !

[Redmond Spiderhammer]

Livewyr, on 02 March 2013 - 05:35 PM, said:

That is not a con of ECM. (repeat, NOT) ("Con" means a reason it is bad; or more accurately; a reason you might NOT bring it if it were available. Example: BAP, BAP doesn't do anything that you can't do with a couple of modules, UNLESS you're using missiles..so whether you want 1.5-2tons of armor, weapon, ammo, or engine rating is a question you really do ask. Do I want BAP, or do I want more ammo?

That is not a question one asks of ECM.

That is evidence that it is not balanced.

In general I agree with the points being brought up in this thread.. but I have to agree that forced mech selection is a valid balancing factor for consideration. I dont agree that it is a particularly good balancing factor but in principle it could work to balance it if the forced selection was so poor as to make taking the **** mech with ecm a difficult choice. That currently is not the case, if you are running a light the hands down best choice is anything with ECM.

[Livewyr]

Redmond Spiderhammer, on 03 March 2013 - 08:48 AM, said:

In general I agree with the points being brought up in this thread.. but I have to agree that forced mech selection is a valid balancing factor for consideration. I dont agree that it is a particularly good balancing factor but in principle it could work to balance it if the forced selection was so poor as to make taking the **** mech with ecm a difficult choice. That currently is not the case, if you are running a light the hands down best choice is anything with ECM.

I agree that making equipment only available to certain variants in order to make them more viable.
I would like it if BAP, AMS, and ECM were all set to canon variants (and maybe a couple others to set up diversity/offset dynamic change challenges)

however when you make a piece of equipment so powerful that simply by existing (or existing in greater numbers on one side), it changes the outcome of a match.. that simply can't be balanced as it is...