I agree, CD'ing it makes using it to escape pointless. Some may think it works fine, but since it is a countermeasure, and you have to sacrifice your standard countermeasures to have it, and yes, it does take a lot of work to get one, it would be nice to know that once you activate it, as long as you can survive the charge time (without shields, can this get any harder?) you WILL manage to escape....it should be considered a more reliable and superior form of CM since I havn't seen a CM that costs 400 million +. If you pay that much for it, it should just work!