Re: ECM and FT

Jim Bell wrote:

> Dean Gundberg wrote:
> >  The ECM could be turned off or a couple turns and them turned back
on 
> >  and the whole thing would start over.
 
> I think once a given ship has burned through the ECM as long as it 
> continues to target the same ship turning off and on the ECM should 
> have no effect.
 
> Now if the targeted ship has two ECM generators and switches between 
> the two systems the number to burn through should be modified 
> (doubled?). This assumes that the two systems use different jamming 
> technics.
 
 My intention was that when the ECM was turned back on, a whole new set
of 
 ECM routines would be in use, and thus the sensors would have to start 
 from scratch to burn though.  I thought that if ECM had this ability, 
 there had to be the negative side where for a couple of turns, they
would 
 have no ECM benefit.  I seem to remember something similar on the Honor

 Harrington series.  It may or may not be 'realistic' but I thought it
was 
 an interesting idea ;-)
 
 Dean Gundberg
 dgundberg@bcbsnd.com