With the prevalence of Active Scanners, and the plans to give them WP in the next update or two (a very GOOD thing, mind), we need an active counter to the active scanner. Foil Equipment with Equipment, I say!

A deploy-able like Nanohives or Uplinks, the ECM Scrambler will cause nearby friendlies to be much harder to scan down, but not impossible. There are certain Active Scanners that have very high scanning power, they could pierce through the interference. There could be a short range Scrambler that has immense power that only the best Active Scanner could pierce in Prototype tier as well, to encourage ranking up. Better range at higher metalevels, better scrambling ability etc.

What do you all think? We need something like this to help preserve the roles of Ambushing Heavies and other defenders, as well as giving another toy for Logi's to use to help the team.

I want an uplink jammer

the mods work good enough for me.

Seems very specific.
What about a general ECM thing which reduces equipment efficacy in its range?

Make it an active module that takes up an equipment slot, acts like scanner, recharges after a period yoy get different variations but yeah cool!!

Sounds plausible but I would recommend giving it a lifespan so that people won't be abusing them and next thing you know we end up with 20+ such jammers littering the outposts and then be able to hide whole armies and then we get more QQ like you see now.

I'm not too sure about making it mobile equipment like the Scanner or Repair Tool, as it might eclipse the passive Dampeners due to taking far less to run. Plus, if we make it mobile, entire groups would be able to remain both radar-invisible and highly mobile, in stark opposition to the Scout role of highly mobile loners. This would invalidate the Sneaky Scout playstyle, because why bring a Scout when it can be a Heavy and a Caldari logi?

Because you would have a timer, so you cant be invisible constantly
The radius on most would not fit a squad
And it helps specilise the EWAR role!!

The active scanner is indeed a must-have now, and after getting extremely annoyed at the "You have been scanned" every 2 seconds which you never know if the enemy you are around is in the squad who performed the scan, I decided to invest a little in dampeners.

2 enhanced dampeners on my calogi and I am now invisible to all but the one proto scanner that goes down to 15dB, all the rest, including the ever popular 25 second scanner, cannot detect me. And I LOVE seeing the "Scan attempt prevented" (or whatever it says, I can't remember ATM).

An anti-scan hive would be interesting, but I think it might undermine the sacrifice of using dampeners and the advantage of using an active-scanner. Cause at least in ambush, the blob of players generally are all in one spot. it's pretty much blob vs blob for entire rounds. So an anti-scanner hive would be way too useful in that regard.

Moved to Feedback/Requests

this would be cool for snipers, if there was a bubble to provide invisibility from scanners.
+1

+1 for good idea, and I run scanners all the time.

I don't like the idea of having a single piece of equipment that can passively make another class of equipment useless within a certain radius. Do we have droppables that can make nanite injectors or repair tools not work? Why should a scanner be rendered useless or debilitated in scanning the majority of the enemy team just because one person on the other side skilled into a single piece of equipment?

This also applies to ECM interference with DUs and nanohives: the only thing that should remove them from play is physical destruction. Equipment that nullifies them passively only by being dropped is too OP. Think of it this way - if you see a tank on the field, you counter it with AV, forges, swarms, other tanks, whatever. You need to actively try to get rid of it to prevent it from aiding the enemy, just like you need to actively destroy nanohives/uplinks. There is no option to emit an EMP that disables said tank from operating.

To gain the ability to evade scanning, you need to skill into a module and sacrifice slots to fit them. It would be OP to lend this ability to everyone, at no cost to them.

The closest thing that might mimic this is triage nanohives, as they take the place of armor repair modules, but even those are very limited - they only heal a given amount of HP per cycle and eventually pop, they are contained within a specific, small radius, and emit a large, visible signature both on the minimap and in the game environment. If these scramblers had similar attributes, they'd most likely be useless.

So no, scrambler devices are not necessary. If you want to evade scans, skill into profile dampeners or use scout suits.

To gain the ability to evade scanning, you need to skill into a module and sacrifice slots to fit them. It would be OP to lend this ability to everyone, at no cost to them.