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Daiashi
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Posted - 2005.07.05 23:03:00 -
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Edited by: Daiashi on 05/07/2005 23:05:10
 Originally by: eadbitz
Great work on the patch. Adding the new ships and modules is a good improvement. I guess that CCP being from Iceland and being a neutral country has a reson to nerf missiles. They obviously don't know how they work. Hmm, a torpedo last time I checked is designed to penetrate the hull of a ship by impacting it then blowing its payload, now they work more like a depth charge and detinate at a range and only do damage based upon signature radius? After doing a little looking around at the missiles in the US and British Army. I have found that no missile is activley used that has a proximity detination only. Most are designed to impact the target directly, or have multiple payloads for armor piercing. So in all of CCP's wisdom I am curious as to where they got this idea. The one reason I enjoy playing EVE was because of its technical nature and how it accuratly portraid weapons systems used by the super powers of earth. Now it seems as CCP is going to learn that trying to please everyone is not possible, at what point are you going to step back and say this makes no sense? Just a concerned player
erm,
Many modern weapons systems do not strike targets directly but use a proximity setting e.g.
Torpedoes that detonate UNDER a ship, breaking the ships back by removing the support of the water.
AA Missiles that deploy a cloud of shrapnel to destroy the ****pit, control surfaces and engines.
Air-Burst artillery, used in the anti-infantry role (truly scary as s**t)
Grenades !!
OK, so the last 2 don't relate to EVE missile mechanics but the first 2 do. Many modern anti-aircraft weapons systems do not hit the target with the missile, but use proximity fuses and blast / shrapnel effects to do the damage.
Why?
It's a whole lot easier to get a missile within say 6m of a target than it is to hit it directly. At high speed a small piece of shrapnel does very nasty things to modern aeroplanes packed full of cables and electronics.
To get back on topic, I like the new missile system. For one thing it makes missile pilots invest in training to get the results. It also fixes the one-size-fits-all issue, where you just got the biggest missiles you could and pounded anything that moved.
As a hybrid gunner I'm not so thrilled by the new high speeds of missiles, but you deserve some carrot to go with the stick !!
Sorry boys but the days of loading up a Raven with cruise missiles and cleaning out lvl 4's with one tactic are over.
And I case you're wondering this should tell you all you need to know (but you do need to register): Linkage
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Crackfarmer
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Posted - 2005.07.05 23:34:00 -
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Id like to see him to get a missle travelling several kilometers a second to impact a target a few meters wide travelling a few kilometeres a second in the opposite direction.
Aka a missle colliding with a missle. The US can only just about do it with slooow earth missles currently.
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Alenius James
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Posted - 2005.07.05 23:38:00 -
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Actually....we just did the other day. We smacked a comet with a small object......and nasa's word was: hitting a bullet with a bullet. 
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Quintus Peritus
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Posted - 2005.07.06 00:01:00 -
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...but look at the price tag of that comet-bullet 
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Crackfarmer
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Posted - 2005.07.06 00:06:00 -
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Took months and months of painstaking planning however :)
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Salvador Tintern
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Posted - 2005.07.06 00:07:00 -
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hmmm a comet the size of a footie field and a probe the size of a fridge, yeah must've been hard to hit that,
get u and a friend and both point a gun at each other and pull the trigger, see if u can hit each others bullets then
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