Swarm Missile Launcher

[ivr56]

Heh, the swarm.

It had a 33.33 refire rate, at 100 damage each. Moved like a CD, but a bit slower, and used no ammo.
Have you ever seen Macross (aka, Robotech, in the USA)? When the Valkyries fired their missiles, that's how the swarm looked like.
The problem with those were that the wep was unbalanced, and required no skill to be used. So, a n00b with a Starflier and 3 of those could defeat anything short of a battleship with them. Also, the huge amount of missiles fired by a single ship used to cause a lot of lag. Do you imagine a 20v20, all firing the swarm? The server would lag to death. Also, they had the missile immunity problem, so sometimes you could fire 500 of those to an enemy ship and do no damage.

It was nerfed, with a lower refire and a higher power usage, but it was still a n00b cannon. People complained, and the thing got "removed" from the mod, by making it harmless and un-buyable.
I think I still have one mounted on my [Korrd]TestChar ship. Its useful as an ECM device against battleships.

double the refire of the Purple godess, wow
Thanks for the info Korrd

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