Player Features and Ideas Discussion

RRS - Rapid Rocket Launcher.
Why not? Would be perfect for that one lonely utility slot. Lower requirements, shoter range, more DPS.

Was it proposed already earlier?

Rapid Rockets makes no sense at all, since Rockets already have a high ROF, which Light Missiles and Heavy Missiles do not. That's also why there's not Rapid Heavy Assault Missiles, because that would just be plain stupid.
If anything, there has to be Rapid Cruise Missiles for Capitals.

I'd use it, pop a rocket off once a tick and laugh as just a stream comes out for all what 10-20km at max? doing maybe 40dps?

Now i have said since i stated playing in 08? am i that old? That what i want is a battleship sized module that fires like A BAJILLION ROCKETS... We're talking Macross levels of bullethell here... Take a MWD raven, fit a full rack of these and dump your entire ammo load at some unsuspecting frigate in range in 10 seconds or less...

If the rapid launchers actually had more capacity, the 35-second reload wouldn't be such a royal PITA. As it now stands, it's like watching paint dry while you reload. So either the current ammunition capacity of rapid launchers should be increased by +50% or the reload time reduced to 20 seconds.

It has to do with categories.

Just like turrets, launchers have a long range and short range variety.

Long/short

Cruise/Torpedo
Heavy/Heavy Assault
Light/Rocket

Now the role of Rapid Heavy and Rapid Light a bit different.

Rapid Heavies are not for medium sized hulls. They are for large sized hulls.
Rapid Lights are not for small sized hulled. They are for medium sized hulls.

The point of these is so medium and large sized ships have better capability against targets of a smaller size. The trade off is that they'll get shorter ranges.

Eg. The Rapid Heavy offers a range comparable to torpedoes but won't do as much damage as torpedoes will to large targets. However, torpedoes deal a reduced damage to medium and small targets while the heavy missiles will deal their full damage potential to large target and deal most of their damage to medium targets. They'll also deal more damage to small targets than torpedoes will.

So the groups for launchers are;

Cruise/Torpedo/Rapid Heavy
Heavy/Heavy Assault/Rapid Light
Light/Rocket

There isn't a launcher size that is smaller. So there is no smaller size to make a 'Rapid' version out of and there doesn't really need to be. Rockets handle the smallest targets in game (drones?) as it is.

The only thing I see missing would be Rapid Cruise for capital ships.

Did not real the whole thing, but i read the reply regarding dreads. That devblog basicly state that they will lower the siege cycle + stronger t1 siege module and see what happens.
To lazy to find when rapid launchers were introduced but im 99% sure its after this blog, so rapids were not an option.

What about having a dual-launcher for the short-ranged missiles? Light missiles are a frigate class weapon and Rapid Lights are a cruiser class weapon, so rocket launchers are a frigate class weapon and a dual rocket launcher would be a cruiser class weapon.
Why? While I admit missiles and guns are 2 different weapon systems, and should stay that way, you get plenty of dual and quad gun systems so why not have a Cerb that mounts 6 dual-rockets that spew 2 rockets each at the normal interval. The upside would be the RoF and application bonus of using rockets over HAMs, while sacrificing the range, since it seems like CCP is never going to address the issues inherent with missile application. (No way to modify your application with the exception of stacking rigors) Even if they do finally give missile pilots another module, over the cries and whines of OPness, it would still be interesting to watch a Raven wade in to 25-30km and start spewing HAMs.