Posted by: TheTalkingMeowth
« on: November 07, 2020, 11:48:55 AM »It'll shorten their MFC range a little bit and it might make few missiles more to miss but it isn't going to be a huge change unless your ECM is massively better than their ECCM.
Ditto. ECM is a "win more" tech. If you don't already have an advantage, it doesn't do much. I think the new way of applying it makes this less true than it was in VB6, but...yeah. It's not exactly a "balance" issue; running into a spoiler race fleet with ECM50 when you have jack smeg is really painful. More of a design issue, in that investing into ECM is useful only in that it forces your opponent to match the investment. Maybe if ECCM countered a percentage of the enemy ECM, so that no matter how good the enemy ECCM is, having ECM is better than no ECM, would work better. I haven't thought about it in detail.