' Wrote:so, yes, missiles are not too bad, provided you have a good ping, i usually have 55 - 78 ping. they guarantee a quick kill. but don t pay off at all. the tracking of the missiles was OK - but worked best, when the enemy was charging towards me. when the missiles actually had to track and follow the target, they often missed or only scored a fraction of their original damage.
I'll have to give that a try with a dedicated test character, but my ping is usually 150-175 so I'm less than optimistic about the results.
I have a dragon gunboat with 3 missile turrets on it, they track other cap ships and traders pretty well but I haven't used them against fighters much. I'm not overly impressed with their damage though. I wish the game would ripple fire missiles, maybe .2 sec apart, so they didn't impact all at the same time. Sometimes it looks to me like they're not doing 3xdamage when all 3 hit, could the missiles be blowing eachother up?
"To gain a hundred victories in a hundred battles is not the highest excellence;
to subjugate the enemy's army without doing battle is the highest of excellence."