Giving a flat amount in effect could also work.

We like the way of it as an effect, and with the masking debuff you have to move forward slowly, but you can still sweep a large area while remain undetected, and you may also detect players on the other side of mountains, that otherwise you wouldn't be able like with going around kms long with a masked ew light masked (which we wish to keep as an alternative for scouting).
We also working on that if you see an enemy on landmarks and it the detector effect pops up, the radar will ping just like with probes. Filtered players like friendlies should not trigger the ping. This will be a good headsup for unaware players.

The extension change (extension only affect the eccm module) should be on the test server soon.
We feel that the extension is a good option to boost the defensive capablities against EW.
While stacking a lot of ECCM modules under the current live settings provides you significant defense against EW, you have to sacrifice so much, that you aren't worth of EWing anyway because you don't represent the threat you could be. Not in damage nor in range.

Tunings: The whole tuning stacking is under review, as we see its not unique to the ECM tunings only. Changing only the ECM tuning isn't the solution as we see.

Supression: The combination with ECM makes this module shine and ruins the day of people.
The aim of the EW is to MITIGATE incoming damage from specific targets/sources, but not blocking it.
We are thinking about changeing the mechanics of the supression, making the direct los weapons' accuracy worse, and increasing the cycletime of missile launchers or giving them missile guidance fail chance.
(this would involve changing bonuses of zenith but we ironing out the details)

The reason why we thinking about changing some parameters of the ECM is we always see forum topics, ingame chats, reports about how strong it is, how OP it is.
Also we are not really like the possibility of making a player totally blind, and unable to shoot back. Ew is somekind of CC (CrowdControl), it should buy time, lower the threat, provide better control of damage you recieve but should not be able to negate it completely, from any source( per player - and we also want to keep the differences between bots). We also want it too keep worthy of using it.

The buff-debuff with the ecm strength on successful ew hit  is aimed to achieve this, by lowering the chances of each following ew in given timeperiod. However with little awareness you can play around it, and still be able to ecm and suppress reliably but less often on the same target, and you should have to switch between targets to bring your EW to its maximum potential. It is some form of diminishing returns and it can be seen in many games (even for damage)

The idea of the extension is simple, with a given amount of EP spent you can slightly lower the chances of being hit by EW. We working on the modification of the extension so it should provide this bonuses to the ECCM only.
We recieved feedback manytimes that we shouldn't nerf stuff, instead make other stuff better. We intend to make ECCM better.

But eventually the problem is the reliability of the EW is too high, which is achieved by the tunings. We also working on this that the tuners should work differently. We like the idea of more drawback, flat increase, maybe flat percentage increase, or even cycletime increase, these are all a good option, but it doesn't mean that any of it will be made for sure.
We also thinking about the racial radartypes, that would bring another layer of complexity which I like, but we fear that some of the EW modules would become highly situational.
Also keep in mind that we don't talk about only fleet compositions, we have to take the funfactor of individual players into account.
(and in the future all of the tunings and similar modules will be revised)

Hi guys!

Your feedback is really appreciated!

Just some thoughts:
Nav was mandatory, but many other extensions are just as mandatory aswell. Nav was special because it was the first extension to max before any other, it simply helped everyone in every situtaion everyday.
This new extension is no doubt will be maxed out by all of you (IF it goes to live), but unlike the Nav you don't have to have it from day1.
(Ext affecting only the eccm module is also an option that come to our mind aswell)

Also if you equip an ECM and you use it you compete against the targets base sensor strenght.
If you equip guns to destroy your target you compete against its hp (you get extensions for hp, and those are affecting plates as well)
If you raise your ECM extensions you will compete against the basic sensor str still.
The modules provide you options to affect targets different ways. Extensions are helping you with that, but you should also be able to defend yourself with extension not with just equipment.

Currently there is some chaos in this department, some stuff are dampened by extensions some are not, this should be ironed out in the future.

I also really like the idea of only modul affecting extensions, I made some plans about this 2 years ago already, and many other stuff.

While the others are working on gammas, I'm focusing on these and other hot topics, like giving additional masking to all the indies, and way more changes to Termis Mk2 as well.

750 is the final (without other effect from buildings) base range is 300, +150% ->750

We didn't really remove much of the spawns, only moved them further away, on alpha 2 and betas we removed 2-3 spawns only, and made every random spawn less random, and more of the same level as it was requested by many.

We plan to reduce the respawn time of the roaming groups on alpha , beta and gamma to zero and buff them a bit (more target, and respawning instantly if they are fully killed - on gamma a expect a beefier buff) .

The number fixed position spawns: Well, we can increase the flock number (more different type of npcs +1-3 npc in the same time) on alpha 2 and betas. We don't wish to change alpha 1 because it is a beginner zone.

We didn't touch the observers, and don't want to.

We may put the beacons on syndicate shop for tokens (rank 3-5 npc only)

Helio's  Volume should have been decreased as well, and we already find the problem, it will be the same as triandlus'.
Also there was an increase in yield.
http://forums.perpetuum-online.com/topi … e-amounts/

The component ammounts are not final yet  , however lowering those numbers will make points less and less noticable because of rounding. I would say we increase the yield further in all materials, and lowering their volume. Also keep in mind, with higher bot prices the insurance will return more as well.
Insurance will be reworked for this.

mm tasty target

There will be room for running and ranged fights! Teams wont even see eachother from their start position.