Ships & Modules

I like the 'Skipper' Missile in Wing Commander it has chances to be shot down but deals nuclear proportions of damage against capital's.

The photon masking cloaking technology phases the missile out of view and back in just to acquire a lock before disappearing leaving little room for a point defence technology.

Lets say they found some other stuff lying around that abandoned sleeper station that they found the "immortality" implants in for dust mercs.

I'm sure if the gameplay around it could solve a problem, particularly with cruise missiles, then a lore explanation could be made later.

Cool idea sure but would wreck the whole missile vs guns mechanics .... Not to mention why then wouldnt we have warping bombs from SBs ?

The real-world equivalent of this would be weapon systems like the Sea Lance. It's basically an anti-submarine torpedo that is delivered to close proximity of hostile submarine by rocket above the surface. This way, you get most of the speed of a missile, coupled with the ability to engage submarines of a torpedo.

Missiles in EVE could be reworked this way without removing regular missile mechanics:

Ship fires missile/torpedo
Missile/torpedo engages warp drive
Missile/torpedo pops out of warp in the vicinity of target half a second later
Missile/torpedo flies to target and goes boom

Steps 2 and 3 could be skipped if target is already close enough to the firing ship.

I intentionally omitted my own specific idea so that this thread didn't turn into everyone vs. the OP's idea. I actually want to hear what other people come up with after toying with the general notion themselves.

Would be cool to have something ICBM-esque in the eve universe, something that POS's could unleash on each other.

This.

For a while I've thought the missing weapon systems in EVE were a turret weapon with missile mechanics, a channeled beam weapon, and a low DPS direct fire AOE weapon. This would have fulfilled one of the three

What if missiles were changed to have slightly different balance through the tiers and a new mission was introduced. iI think missiles are long overdue for a rework. How about if missiles were re-classified as

Light, Light Assault
Heavy, Heavy Assault
High-yield, High-yield assault (placeholder name)
Strategic, prototype strategic

These would be the new frigate, cruiser/battlecruiser, and battleship designations. Strategic would be a new designation of missile launcher, firing long range area of effect rounds. Prototype strategic would be a new dreadnought missilelauncher to the same effect. The strategic missiles would serve two purposes, firstly they would make missile snipers relevant in large numbers because although the damage is greatly delayed, its aoe. And secondly it will create a soft cap on gang sizes, as the nature of aoe damage in terms of scaling is that the number of targets increases the effective dps of the aoe-using shooter. This would mean that gangs above a certain size would be at a disadvantage against missiles unless they used them aswell, and gangs below that size would be better off using guns, by encouraging people to use smaller gangs and making smaller gangs more effective against larger gangs (low-damage aoe missiles are not great outside of a massive blobfest) the game promotes diverse missile gameplay, more relevant caldari for pvp, and healthier less blob-centric pvp.

How about:
Black Ops BS on grid uncloaks and fires said strategic missile.
Recon uncloaks with in 249k of the target. He then lazes or target paints the point of impact and guides in the strike .
Both agressing ships are un able to recloak until after detonation of the strike package.
Just a thought.