Red Ochre
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Posted - 2006.11.02 11:10:00 -
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 Originally by: Sha'blach
Missiles are fine. In real life and pretty much every combat game around missiles are VERY powerful, but are drawn back because of Accuracy, Flight Time, Sig Radius and explosion velocity. These are all very real aspects about missiles. In real life:
Missile goes in, flys for an hour or so, slams into the hull of a carrier - BOOM big ass hole, carrier creaks and moans. Following shortly by quite a bit of fire and extreme structural damage due to shockwave.
Gun fires at carrier - big ass 8" guns that is - BOOM - minute or two flight time, WHACK, big ass hole, big ass interior damage, lots of hypervelocity shrapinel (sp?) and lots of dead people.
Torpedo goes in, long ass flight time, sometimes minutes or hours, depending on range fired, it is easy to shoot down (in an eve style universe, not oceans), it's slow and it carriers a payload that would make baby Jesus cry.
Missiles are fine as they are, however I would like to see more countermeasures for them . Flak is the first thing that comes to mind, or even an expanding plasma wave weapon which is used only againced missiles and nothing else - modified smart bomb?
let me educate you on "real" missiles. they are very accurate. yes they do massive damage. sig radius has squat to do with "real" missiles. signature radius in the "real" world is what a target will reflect back at guiding radar, whether ground based or weapon based, signature radius will tell you if your a small dot on radar or a big dot on radar (simplified), its used for tracking targets, the ability to see or even lock on depends on the targets signature radius and the radars resolution (how fast, slow, ability to stay locked), not the fun way ccp has it implemented. if ccp wants to use the sexy "sig radius" for damage instead, its up to them. i suggest 20 years in the military to get a small understanding of how weapon systems work.
a good countermeasure would be a 7 barrel phalanx cannon, thousands of rounds per minute to shred incoming missiles,
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