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[Lightfoot]

Well. ECM is very over-powering, but it's counter is to carry ECM on your Mech.

Just recalling how in Battletech Lore many Mechs could equip ECM or BAP, but only a very few could carry both. The Raven, Atlas, and Loki come to mind.

MWO just needs to buff BAP a bit since MWO's interpretation of ECM pretty much nullifies the uses of BAP. Then determine whether the Lore says a Mech is capable of ECM or BAP. I think that would create a more balanced game with greater depth for teams.

So that's my suggestion based on experiences in multiple versions of MechWarrior. MWO has the most advanced version of ECM, allowing players to do many things in the MechWarrior stories.

[Gremlich Johns]

I think that ECM should be made to function as it would IRL - one suite for radar, another for comms, a sensor package that would detect laser target designators and deploy countermeasures like Chaff, Flares, or both. One suite cannot do everything the canon established. Science-fantasy. One ECM cannot negate another, creation of harmonics would make things worse.

Edited by Gremlich Johns, 01 January 2013 - 10:37 AM.

[Saevel]

Well the radar and targeting system in general is kinda poorly implimented. BAP should function as an actual radar and let you see / target things out to 1.2km rather then only if you or someone else has LoS. The LoS requirement is another one of those things that turns everything into a 250~300m brawl slug fest.

[Werewolf486 ScorpS]

NO!!

If anything make ECM work properly and not something everyone has to equip or feels the need to! ECM should be expensive as hell, and not be able to take lots of damage. It should be fragile and not be able to take lots of damage. ECM has upset the balance of the game, lets not make it worse by adding more of it. If anything lessen it's effects.