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Rampage, on 14 January 2017 - 09:17 PM, said:
You guys must call it the Jesus box because you are intent on crucifying those Mechs that need it as a feature to even make them viable. In its present state, it is far from over powered and reducing the coverage of it to 1/4 (which was needed) certainly drastically reduced its effectiveness.
Instead of reducing the effectiveness of ECM and those Mechs that need it to find some usage, how about increasing the effectiveness of a hard counter to ECM such as CAP or BAP? Increase the range to 100% boost for example and make players make the choice to equip it on their Mechs just like the players that choose to equip ECM.
I have seen streak boat pilots in Scouting complain about ECM and they did not even have CAP on their Mech at the time.
LRMers and snipers can equip and enhanced BAP/CAP if they want better lock and target information. They can also spend points in the future skill tree to upgrade target information gathering. Make the players make a choice to counter ECM instead of making it and a bunch of Mechs mediocre to the point that it will not be worth equipping.
ECM is not a problem in the game and has not been since the big ECM NERF. Just remember that, by far, the biggest group of Mechs that will be effected by another ECM Nerf will be the LIghts. Do they really need to be even less effective than they currently are?
Instead of reducing the effectiveness of ECM and those Mechs that need it to find some usage, how about increasing the effectiveness of a hard counter to ECM such as CAP or BAP? Increase the range to 100% boost for example and make players make the choice to equip it on their Mechs just like the players that choose to equip ECM.
I have seen streak boat pilots in Scouting complain about ECM and they did not even have CAP on their Mech at the time.
LRMers and snipers can equip and enhanced BAP/CAP if they want better lock and target information. They can also spend points in the future skill tree to upgrade target information gathering. Make the players make a choice to counter ECM instead of making it and a bunch of Mechs mediocre to the point that it will not be worth equipping.
ECM is not a problem in the game and has not been since the big ECM NERF. Just remember that, by far, the biggest group of Mechs that will be effected by another ECM Nerf will be the LIghts. Do they really need to be even less effective than they currently are?
My suggestion would buff your complaint, in a way
Right now, the Magic Jesus Field is what ISN'T covered by the Jesus Box field. The Anti-Dorito field, you could call it.
It exists EVERYWHERE but the 200M closest to your mech.
Any mech within 200M will be able to target you, until your bubble cancels out their lock (previously 180M, currently 90M)
So, mechs have a 110M range to lock you, as opposed to the old 20M.
My suggestion would let them target you at 400M (...oh, that's Streak max range), but if you get within 180M, they wouldn't be able to target you without BAP (same old ECM Field)
I'd also love a BAP change, but that's more than a .XML edit.
I'd also like Dorito Delay for the Carrier, instead of outright hard locks (which would buff anti-Streaks for terrain with cover and concealment), but that's also more than a Equipment.XML edit.
That would let the Carrier get much closer to 400M before being targeted, but not the other mechs.
