(08-02-2016, 02:51 PM)Thunderer Wrote: Bring one civilian shuttle with a Wasp CD into the fight, and the missiles are effectively out. Let's not make them weapons that are relied on.
So you want to say 'Battleship Missles are useless now, let's keep them useless, without any importance in fights'.
Because that is how they are like now. Too low damage on shields and hull due to the low refirerate, to make a difference in battles or duels. Even flakable as I've seen recently in Conn, with 2 salves of 2 flaks, also relative uneffective due to CM's and every Cruise Disruptor which can interrupt it with a single hit. But even with all these disadvantages I see many people crieng about them when I use them, only because the missles disturbed their aim for a short time. Even the DPS of cruiser missles is as high as a battleships missle, and some have even higher dps.
Rheinland Battleship Missle: 220k damage all 20 seconds, all in all 20 missles = 4400k damage (4.4m damage in 400 seconds, a mortar inflicts in 5 seconds 280k damage, in 400 seconds 22,4m damage)
Rheinland Cruiser Missle: 185k damage in 10 seconds, all in all 30 missles = 5550k damage(5,55m damage in 300 seconds)
The Battleship Missles have the small additional effect to interupt the enemies cruiser engines or cloak like a Cruise Disrupter. Sounds interesting and good in the first seconds, but thats it. It's a completely useless element, because even a Battleship charges the cruise engines faster (10seconds) than the missle can refire. You can say, the battleship will you charge will be runned before you can drop another missle, and it's better then to have a snub with CD with you. Next to that the missle wont ever stop a already cruising vessel, since the missle is much slower than cruise speed.
I don't see any positive effect from this addition.
People might be afraid now of op battleship missles, especially the cruiser players. But don't be afraid^^ as the battleship missles are now or when would be changed, they are still easy to get rid off with CD and CM's.
Also some superior skilled Player might be afraid of getting killed by 1 or 2 battleships, maybe heavy or light ones, controlled by less skilled Battleship Players, who are able to get a danger for you because they have missles which need less skill?
At least the less skilled player, maybe even a Newcomer, has a small chance then.^
A new Anti-shield missle and reduced cool down times for the existing missles or higher capacity for them is, in my opinion, they try worth it.
