class 8 missiles?

[Ripper]

ok, here re different missile ideas - some of which were allready taken down by igiss

- darts: no homing ability, but fast and quite strong for their speed
++: advantage, they could be like a CD ( around 900 ) rather strong ( 1k damage or so ) and hard to aim with - cause most missiles have a certain amount of ignition time, meaning they appear to accelerate rather than being at max speed at once - making hitting something a bit harder.
- - : disadvantage, we get something like torpedos in jousting

- multiple warheads: missiles that detonate into 4 or so swarm missiles that can individually track the enemy. there are missiles like that in other mods - and they look pretty cool.
++: advantage, they look cool and there might be a chance that due to lag at least one of them hits - or all for hit a bigger target.
- - : disadvantage, they cause so much lag that its THEM that cause them not to hit / track anything - and instead fly into other stuff ( usually friendly NPCs that of course turn hostile to you at once, and to make it worse, you can be sure that just in that moment 3 battleship NPC groups spawn on you!:laugh:)

- shield piercer: missiles that completely ignore shields, do medium damage and are rather used against gunboat sized stuff - it is possible to aim at subsystems in freelancer, but due to lag, i don t give the missiles a great chance to hit - or to even hit a gunboat.
++: advantage, tactical missile that might be funny in theory....
- - : disadvantage, but it won t work .. lol

- stun missile: like the paralyzers so called side effect, a missile that locks the energy regeneration of the target. actually i have no clue if the paralyzer REALLY locks it down, but it says so in the ID card. might aswell be a missile that locks down the enemies speed to zero for 1 second or lock the enemies shield regeneration.
++: advantage, might be a good addition to a tactical missile
- - : disadvantage, probably too powerful.... might work if it was restricted to house military forces only, certainly not for pirates ( assuming that its a high tech piece of weapon )

- radiation mines: whops a "mine" idea slipped in - a mine that is actually really stationary - but emits a powerful black hole radiation effect.
++: advantage, everyone will run away, including the dropper
- - : tons of "re-engagement" posts:laugh:cause they all meet again a bit away from there - not to mention all the angry NPCs.

- IFF decoys: a missile that is moving with the speed of like 200 and looks like a copy of the players IFF. of course it is a missile and has a smoky tail aswell as not being really visible. oh, and it should not have a tracking ability of course. - it should be able to drop it while in cruise ( like CMs )
++: advantage, well its a decoy - and might be funny.
- - : disadvantage, .... errr. it fools no one? - dunno

- sensor scramblers: missiles that make the target loose its current target and reduce its sensor range to like zero for a short time ( still possible to click on avisible target, just impossible to click on the targets list )
++: advantage: in a large battle, it can be used to confuse a player - cause it takes time to coordinate an attack on one single - and possibly doding target. it could aswell be used in combination with a decoy.
- -: disadvantage, missiles loose their track instantly - and fights become very long, when the players keep "shooting" off the others targetting.

- markers: a missile that marks a certain target for a group. so that even without proper communication, a target can easily be attacked by a large group. - should of course not cause damage and it should allmost be a granted hit - like a mosquito.
++: advantage, its fun for unorganized groups
- - : disadvantage, uhh... do we really need that?

thats all i can think of atm =)) - and now i have had too much coffee:crazy:

You realy have good ideas...Drink more coffee Jinx,maybe we get something from this.

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Ripper-Freelancer
Pablo Ibanez-Outcast