(07-18-2015, 05:07 PM)Lythrilux Wrote: ... How about we give them a massive blast radius ...
No can do. Anyone who's ever been spammed at with BS missiles in a snub will know that you can actually kill yourself by CMing them relatively late, as their current blast radius already makes it so they can quite easily hit you even if they explode by hitting a CM rather than your ship.
Buffing their radius further won't "discourage hugging", it'll actually make them ridiculously effective anti-snub weapons. To me, a weapon that kills you if you attempt to counter it with its intended counter (Countermeasures, also this sentence contains the word "counter" too many times) isn't exactly good game design.
I'd actually rather make them more viable while nerfing their radius to discourage anti-snub use (they're big-ass cruise missiles, they really shouldn't be used to make clouds of snubs go splat), but that leads to them not damaging certain larger caps when hit at specific locations on the ships' hulls.
