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[Jakob Knight]

Pachar, on 29 January 2013 - 03:18 PM, said:

I agree that ECM to LRM is an issue, but I would suggest fixing ECM rather than change LRMs on a fundamental level.

This suggestion has been made in overwhelming numbers and times. The devs have made it clear they do not intend to change ECM in the slightest (three patches, and ECM is the same as it was when introduced with obvious game balance issues, with only ineffective 'counters' added to avoid any changes). If they simply removed the prohibition on lockons beyond the 200m limit, then I would fight the removal of LRM minimum range with all that I had, simply because I would see it as necessary for game balance (as it used to be).

However, with the devs determined not to change ECM, and the repeated and obvious attitude that LRMs are now to be treated as a bigger, slower, and avoidable autocannon, the minimum range is only a handicap leftover from the time when LRMs needed to have a very large area where they were useless. That isn't the case anymore.

Edited by Jakob Knight, 30 January 2013 - 09:59 AM.