Capital Ship Missiles

[Nadir]

So... back on topic (and picking pieces of fish of myself)... have we come to any conclusions about cap ship missiles?

1. They're too deadly in numbers against most kinds of ships. I faced a heavily missile based cruiser in a VHF and it was very one sided. Better pilots, light fighters and people with good ping times may have more of a chance than my humble self ...but I think we all agree these missile turrets are too powerful.

2. No ammo - can't be done. Unless I've missed something.

3. I hate and despise and object and will sticky-tape myself to the front of my ship to protest against artificially imposed restrictions on the numbers of turrets of whatever kind one is allowed - it's neither realistic or furthering any RP and would be yet another rule to police and no fun for anyone. Silly. Rebalance the faulty equipment: much easier.

I like the idea of cap ship specialisation so one could build a missile destroyer if one wanted to but it would be crap at roles that missile's don't suit. You could build a Flack cruiser to take down battleships, but have no effect on fighters (unless they're asleep). You could build a multi-roll ship to take on all sorts but not be brilliant at any one kind of target. That way several players could form a wing of ships and use tactics often seen in RTS games and real life military conflicts. In other words I don't want to be forced into building generic ships - the more freedom the better.

To balance missiles Igiss could simply reducing damage, splash radius and turn rate and so on... but better still, focus the weapon to be useful against one type of ship, while less useful against others. You could make it an anti-fighter weapon by increasing the turn rate slightly and dividing the damage by 5 or more (and reduce the range to something sane). I think the flack turret is already an 'anti-slow-moving-thing' weapon and we don't need another variant on the theme.

All in all I think the concept of the function of cap ship missiles needs to be firmed out - what they were invented for, what they're good at and what they're bad at.

(re What is RP or not, that, again, is another topic... Also I apologise for bringing up server wipes in an inappropriate fashion - post edited)

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