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[Bellum Dominum]

Hey PGI hopefully you'll consider this in the skill tree.

You've heard from me many times over the years about ECM and how it should only be the mech with it equipped that benefits from it. (Of course you've 'ignored' my comments on it because the community would have created a new ocean with tears if you'd have made that change and I understand that).

Perhaps this is how ECM can be added into the skill tree?

Add it into the support electronics section of the tree with:
Narc
Tag
UAV
Active Probe
ETC

0pts into ECM = Mech only
1pt into ECM = Mech + 10m radius
2pt into ECM = additional 7m radius
ETC

ECM is incredibly strong in this game. People tend to only think about LRMs in regards to ECM and while that lock protection is a very solid bonus it's self so too is the inability of an enemy to get information on you. A very large part of my SPR-5Ds survivability is it's ECM. I really shouldn't be able to just freely grant that same protection to the rest of my team. Then add in the fact that today we have Assaults with ECM... assault survivability + bonus ecm survivability + spread the love to the whole team... really is out of hand.

Doing this would at least mean that the person providing that protection to their team has had to cut back from somewhere else to be able to do so.