Way more than I expected, tbh. Only problem I see: Rof means a rof bonused ship will go through cargo even faster and missiles are pretty large to carry around in the first place. Perhaps consider reducing the size of missiles?

Could you explain what's awesome in turning Cruise missiles into Railguns?
Edit: a worse version of railguns, as you see from the post below.

How come this didn't apply to Drakes or Tengus? Honest question.

I don't see where these are the same as Railguns. Railguns behave differently.
Missiles will always be missiles, they have their own strenghts and weaknesses, thats what some call over powered, and others useless.

I now have a reason to train into cruise missiles, rather than just "skipping" them. It fits my play style, and i believe many others' too.

Suppose that Tempest is moving at a speed of 120 m / s and has a signature 360 meters. Raven shoots him with cruise missiles (fury) (velocity _ of explosion 91 m / s, the radius of of explosion 403 meters), all skills 5,, implants: +5% velocity blast, 5% explosion radius)
even at such a low speed of Tempest, damage reduction would be about 32%
correct me if I'm wrong

Suppose that Tempest is moving at a speed of 120 m / s and has a signature 360 meters. Raven shoots him with cruise missiles (fury) (velocity _ of explosion 91 m / s, the radius of of explosion 403 meters), all skills 5,, implants: +5% velocity blast, 5% explosion radius)
even at such a low speed of Tempest, damage reduction would be about 32%
correct me if I'm wrong

Now stop using Fury and use the correct ammo. Full damage.

not sure what you mean, firewall effectively killed all missile doctrines in large scale 0.0 warfare

my first post was a little snarky and I'm all for 'personal skill' making a difference, but in its current form a few dedicated smartbombing ships can nullify an entire fleets worth of damage. even more so from ships that don't move very fast (like ravens)

How come this didn't apply to Drakes or Tengus? Honest question.

This will of course be more than offset by the increase in base damage, but the idea is that the performance increase will be more substantial for larger targets.

Explosion Radius?

Edit: If it is ER and I have used the missile damage forum correctly (?), it looks like Fury Cruise will out-damage Rage Torps against signatures of 384m or smaller when 2 TPs are used (the cut-off seems to be 528m without TPs).

Coupled with much greater range, those cut-offs seem too high and perhaps a smaller damage bonus is in order?

Now stop using Fury and use the correct ammo. Full damage.

Im not sure if smartbombs will work at all due to insane missile speed (10k/s) and server ticks of 1 sec.

meaning that cruise will probably have past the SB radius before the server tics and they wont be effected at all, theoretically the smartbomb /should/ kill the cruise, but i want to test it first.

I thought fury's were ment to be the anti bs ammo type?

So, as a few of you have mentioned, damage application is one of the biggest obstacles for missiles. I completely agree, but I don't want to solve this problem through Cruise Missiles as a system. I have other ideas for dealing with it, unfortunately they will likely not make it in for Odyssey.

So, as a few of you have mentioned, damage application is one of the biggest obstacles for missiles. I completely agree, but I don't want to solve this problem through Cruise Missiles as a system. I have other ideas for dealing with it, unfortunately they will likely not make it in for Odyssey.

Righty, one by one:

5% increased rate of fire for all Cruise Missile Launchers
25% increase in base damage for all Cruise Missiles

Way more than I expected, tbh. Only problem I see: Rof means a rof bonused ship will go through cargo even faster and missiles are pretty large to carry around in the first place. Perhaps consider reducing the size of missiles?

so all these changes mean is a cruise missle will hit a bs harder if it is sitting still. but if it moves the ages old problem that was created during the speed nerf still remains, they cant hit anything that is smaller than a bs or moving.

awesome buff for mission runners

So, as a few of you have mentioned, damage application is one of the biggest obstacles for missiles. I completely agree, but I don't want to solve this problem through Cruise Missiles as a system. I have other ideas for dealing with it, unfortunately they will likely not make it in for Odyssey.

So, as a few of you have mentioned, damage application is one of the biggest obstacles for missiles. I completely agree, but I don't want to solve this problem through Cruise Missiles as a system. I have other ideas for dealing with it, unfortunately they will likely not make it in for Odyssey.

by my math, this means each missile will do 291 damage rather than 253 and thats worst case scenario; an AB tempest with no sig increase from a shield tank and no speed decrease from an armor tank.

seriously though, who runs an AB on a battleship?

TL;DR
unless the battleship is LOLz afterburning and not MWDing your cruise missiles will do full damage.

by my math, this means each missile will do 291 damage rather than 253 and thats worst case scenario; an AB tempest with no sig increase from a shield tank and no speed decrease from an armor tank.

seriously though, who runs an AB on a battleship?

TL;DR
unless the battleship is LOLz afterburning and not MWDing your cruise missiles will do full damage.