So my question is are there any plans to take a look at balancing missiles in the near future? I would settle for the obvious for now.

Remove T2 missile ship penalties and give us a 5 second reload ....Please.

In the long run I would love it if you thought about:

*Revisiting the missile damage formula so that it is more possible to do damage to stationary targets.
*Cruise missiles? nuff said!
*Introduce low slot and or mid slot missile enhancement modules.
* Reconsider this silly doctrine that T2 Missile ammo is meant only to attack a higher ship class. (This is poorly thought out. Please reconsider it.)

Missiles should also have weapon upgrade modules that buff Explosion Radius and Explosion Velocity.

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Missiles already do. Target Painters affect both values by increasing the target's sig size, (but TPs, which can miss and only affect one ship at a time, aren't quite as convenient as a TC.) Webs help with explosion velocity (but are normally too short ranged to be of much use.)

/pedantic

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Missiles already do. Target Painters affect both values by increasing the target's sig size, (but TPs, which can miss and only affect one ship at a time, aren't quite as convenient as a TC.) Webs help with explosion velocity (but are normally too short ranged to be of much use.)

/pedantic

Torpedoes need to benefit from all the explosion radius modifiers from skills, rigs and implants.

they don't already?

tl;dr, but I agree after looking over patch notes and seeing how much love hybrids got it makes me hopeful CCP will take a look some of the neglected missiles (cruise, standard, and to a lesser extent torps/rockets).

I haven't been back long enough to say how well they did with rockets, but if they also got love, then sweet.

HML seem in a good place, but there are a couple HML ships that are hard to fit and/or have a stupid role (cerb).

The two easiest ships to fly in the game (Drake, Tengu), do not deserve any kind of buff what so ever.

Heavies are generally fine with the exception of Precision. Precision are actually useless. Faction are far and away better.

Missile is not all about R.O.F and damage bonus, they also depend heavily on Explosion Radius and Explosion Velocity.
Missiles should also have weapon upgrade modules that buff Explosion Radius and Explosion Velocity.

Missiles themselves don't need a real boost.

Except for cruise missiles. They do need a boost though.

Torps could use some help. Skills should apply to those, it won't REALLY enhance them anyway, so no risk of unbalance.

Standards should have reduced fitting requirements, Nighthawk should have a PWG boost.

Defenders need a complete rework. I don't know what kind of rework, but a BIG rework. Something that makes them worth to fit.

And T2 defenders, while you're at it.

F.O.F missiles could use some changes maybe. They should do -20% DPS, still have the same range, and it should work like this, for exemple :

Either shoot the last target you were aggressing.

Or shoot the most efficient EW platform that was aggressing you.

That way, you either have the possibility to take down the last bits of structure that are holding your enemy's ship together, or the ability to remove the jamming/damping nuisance from the field.

And it looks fair to me, I guess

I agree lets give missles a buff. We can add the following as well to make them more like turrets

1. Under a certain range. Infact lets just say they didnt have time to arm the warhead.

2. Anything traveling faster than 1km will not be hit as long as it is orbiting the said ship.

3. Move BCU's to mid slots so shield ships have to sacrifice their shields for a damage bonus

4. We can add some cap usage to the firing of missles.

I'm sorry for the lack of helpfull suggestions. Currently at work so I'm not at home with my list of helpfull ideas for the game.

Thanks all

they don't already?

^Fixed that for you.

The buff that Missiles need... Visible launchers rather than them just spawning outside the ship and going down range.

I don't want my enemies to know what missiles I'm using before the engagement begins, thanks.

I appreciate that L4 rats don't care though.

Confirming you get the leisure to check opponent's turrets and decipher the new models before they fire.

The fact that canes and other Winmatar ships with launcher slots fill them with neuts instead of hmls says enough of their effectiveness. Your actions speak louder than words.

Hmmm... maybe you are right. Or maybe, MAYBE a neut worth more than an unbonused weapon.

ever tried to fit a turret on a laucher hardpoint?

1. Reload

Turrets: All turrets can reload their ammo either instantly (lasers) or within 5 seconds.

Missiles: It still takes 10 seconds to load ammo.

Projectiles: Also have 10 second reload time. Hybrids are 5 because they are a hybrid between lazors and projectile.

Drones: Can take an age to swap out / fly to target when you release a new one etc - their effective 'reload' time

2. Ship penalties.

Turrets: Most if not all ship penalties have been removed from T2 turret ammo.

Missiles: Using T2 missiles still either blows up your ship's sig radius or slows you to a crawl.

Blasters: Void still suffer a tracking penalty as well as capacitor. Null suffers a massive tracking penalty.
Rails: Spike is pointless without an on-grid warp nerf.

3. Enhancement.

Turrets: Many different types of T2 ammo have been tweeked in their performance or the turrets themselves have been modified to provide better tracking, damage, range and so on by boosting the actual weapon it self or moduals that affect them like tracking enhancers.

Missiles: Nothing...and my Nighthawk still needs more grid!

Drake: Can fit strong tank + wmd + point and a full rack of damage mods in the lows. No other BC can do this.

4. You forgot to mention

- Missiles do not use cap. So no worries about capping out and not being able to use your weapons.
- You can select between 100% damage type. Yeah sucks a bit on the drake but you can select a damage type.
- Surprise factor that you cannot tell from looking at the ship what weapons they have fitted.

Yes i realized. Still without any bonuses its hardly worth it.

Oh noez, Caldari pilots aren't going into null with their Ravens because their Cruises can't pvp.

Oh please, ppl fit unbonused projectiles on non-Winmatar boats all the time, often instead of bonused lesser weapons See? Actions speak louder than words

So what you propose is to buff missiles enough, so that people fit Launchers instead of neuts in launcher slots.

Seems reasonable to me, where can i sign?

Respect your opinions as most of your posts are spot on. But I have to disagree with you here. Target painters are helpful for all weapons. That being said, care to eliminate tracking enhancers and computers with the theory that you could just fit painters?

"My weapon system of choice should have the exact same upgrades with different names because I dislike the unique drawback that I am in no way forced to endure"

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"WAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH"

Missiles do need some work, but only tweaks.

Here's my ideas:

All Torps: Increased range (currently about the same as HAMs, they should be better than that), reduce explosion radius by 10-20%
All Cruises: Reduce explosion radius by 10-20%, increase Explosion velocity.
Javelin HAMs: These have inferior damage AND range to Fury Heavy Missiles. Reason I compare to Fury Heavies is because Javelin Torps have better DPS than Fury Cruises, at expense of Range. Not so with Javelin HAMs v Fury Heavies. Its a Balancing issue that needs to be resolved. So Javelin HAMs need to have DPS boosted, but thats it.
Standard Missiles: Reduce the fitting requirements of Standard Launchers, you can't really fit them to frigates.

The penalties of Tech 2 Missiles should be removed too. After this and the above is done, Missiles will be fairly balanced...

But it's just an idea

I can go with that

Or CCP may revert the missiles to the original effects and be granted AoE dmg back again...

Plz oh PLZ!! do such thing just for the LULZ!!!