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[Foxfire]

As a preface, I completely agree that ECM's providing blanket stealth armor to a group as it did when it was first introduced was completely overpowered.

That said, a suggestion that I have to make ECM's more useful now that there are more counters to it.

My suggestion is to have lock on missiles who are attacking a mech that is within the influence of an ECM bubble suffer from an accuracy penalty. A sort of 'anti-Artimis'. While it would be preferable that it be dependent upon the amount of time that it is in the influence sphere, that would require coding that is too active to not induce lag in a game like this.

To speak of it logically, while a lock on can be maintained outside of the sphere of influence, the missile still needs to communicate and receive data from the fire control system of the firing mech. A jamming system such as ECM will kill that ability to receive data(which is how modern military jammers work).. but since losing the tracking of a missile inside of the sphere would be overpowered... a reduction of missile accuracy, IMO, would be an adequate representation of this without gimping LRM's vs ECM.

[Unbound Inferno]

Yeah, PGI already stated that ECM was "close enough" to what they want they aren't fixing it.

Its broken like hell and prevents any piratical use while being buggy enough to still allow indirect fire without the use of a TAG if the spotter is smart.


Its wrong, its broken, and its near what PGI wanted? I have really high doubts about the direction of this game sometimes...

[El Bandito]

GECM implementation as AECM was the first major big middle finger we got from PGI. And yes, they are still waving it.

[Foxfire]

I wish they would seriously consider retooling the ECM to make it into a Beagle instead of a bastardized Angel.

I want it to be useful but I think their poor initial implementation has made them gun shy.