[Suggestion] Fighter missile turret

[AeternusDoleo]

*pulls out mine launcher*

yeah... put a few of these on a freighter and lets see what happens. Or maybe a gunboat or transport, as they still have the ability to mount fighter turrets. Though the idea sounds nice at first, adding something like this would prove a bit of a headache to make it balanced enough to put on something like the shire unless the devs do something like what they did with the cruiser and battleship turrets.

2000 energy damage. That's... less then 4 Debilitator hits (which you can score in 1 second), and the refire is once every 10 seconds. The damage it does is largely energy based (500 hull every 10 seconds - that's 50 hull DPS people, and the total damage amounts to 200 shield DPS), so good luck taking down a VHF with such as this alone. It's an extra, not a main weapon. Only possible danger I can think of is if something has at least 6 forward turrets, and a SNAC, to instajoust something - but you can do that with some bombers anyway.

It's basically a low-efficiency, tracking pulse weapon that won't affect hull all that much, designed to fill a slot that's otherwise useless. I don't expect these things to hit all that often in the first place, although in jousts you can send one at your opponent since you know he's going to turn to face you.

[Edit] @Mao: I used the word "Missile turret" since that's what people would recognize it by. That it wouldn't fire actual missiles, but instead some sort of tracking energy projectile, would be a good IRP explanation. If the concept is approved I can write up the quasi-science behind it:)

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