Player Features and Ideas Discussion

simple. have each missile finish what it was launched to do.

whether the ship that fired them was destroyed or warped off grid, the missiles that are flying to the target should continue to do so. They would have sufficent targeting systems enough to come close (surely they could at least switch to heat seeking mode if nothing else). I would be willing to comprimise with having them hit with less damage, since the mother ship isnt there to guide them, but even thats unecessary.

((griefer warning)) -turret pvp players wont like this idea...

Way back, I think they did. People used it to avoid CONCORD and for general ganking. People could fire/cloak/uncloak/fire, fire/warpout/warpin/fire, or even fire/logoff/logon/fire to be invincible. Damage dealers could be untouchable in PvP. Anyway, it caused a variety problems so they removed the ability.

A better idea might just be a global 3x missile velocity all around (and a corresponding 1/3 of max-flight time).
Defender missiles just don't work anyways, and that's the only reason for missiles to be slow.

A missile would be faster than an artillery shell, and they are "instant" like all turrets.
Autocannon bullets would be even slower than artillery.

Defender missiles could just give attacking missiles a % chance to miss, but ignore the actual physics flight of trying to intercept a missile with a missile. Make it "just work", and fake the visual effect.

No because it would'nt be balanced with drones.

Drones stop moving if the mothership warp out, so missiles have to do the same so that the game stays balanced.

this argument does not belong in this thread. do not be comparing drones and their link to the mother ship with missiles. it makes sense that drones stop all action once their transmission was cut off. drones are used for a multitude of things, not just launch and detonate. which is exactly the only purpose in firing a missile, rocket, or bomb. it has one directive, and only one. it will not switch targets if the target dies before it gets there.
-which actually brings up a good counter point to your input. if missiles were so dependant apon the ship that fired them to guide them to target. Then they would swerve to the next target if that one was destroyed before hand.

and, no, this is would not unbalance the game. as i stated before it would only cause some rethinking to the strategies of combat (a little). the only down side is you would not target missile boats first, only for the benefit of having their missiles go dud.

Being in line with drones is not a direct consideration. They act in a similar fashion to missiles in this case because of possible exploits. Other than that, they are independently considered (relatively speaking as little to nothing in Eve is independent). For example, cloaking with drones out could make you invulnerable yet with offensive capabilities. The nature of drones means that you could keep dishing out damage theoretically endlessly, making repercussions vastly different for drones than for missiles.

As for guns, the only ones comparable are projectiles weapons. It is a matter of alpha generated by ship bonuses, fittings, and player skills. Taking range into account, the alpha becomes much higher for missiles than projectiles.* Missiles easily hit with thousands of effective damage from very long range all in one shot. Two or three volleys can sometimes be fired before the first hits. From here, my memory is a bit fuzzy. I forget if CONCORD reacted to launch or impact of missiles. I forget if you were flagged as hostile on launch or impact. A part of the problem was that a defending player had no chance to get the attacker in range yet they could send several volleys at the victim. Combine that with passive targeting modules and logoffs tactics and, well, you see how things get crazy.

* Keep in mind that projectile ammo at the time had various ranges and was different from the modern simplified version we have today. Heck, projectiles used a very small amount of capacitor energy back then. Furthermore, this may have been before the changes to missiles (full damage to small targets), torp nerf, etc.

Ya, upon death, they should still hit IMHO. Anti-exploits are one thing; this is another.