Player Features and Ideas Discussion

There is no active weapon disruption for missiles. Flares would be such a cool looking mod to have because defender missiles are crap. Instead of disruption they could have a hit/miss chance to some degree or maybe some sort of damage reduction equal to tracking disruption. The only problem is the idea is setup like defender missiles because the only friendly that could defend would be a ship with flares. You could make some sort of shotgun style projectile that spreads flares or chaffs 10km in front of the affected ship so you can apply the penalty like a tracking disruptor I guess.

Active Missile Defense-Medium Slot

You could have two different scripts.
Chaffs for standard, heavy, and cruise missiles
Flares for rockets, assaults, torps



At the same time you can fix the damage reduction on some of the current missiles. Pretty much all of the t2 precision and javelin ammo needs some major damage reduction help excluding rockets.

No.

CCP was planning to do that but they have scrapped the idea for now.

TDs can be used by any ship. Defenders can be used *only* on missile boats.
So you can 'disrupt' turret boats from any ship but the only way to 'disrupt' missile boats is to fly missile boat.

Not that I'm suggesting defenders are fine the way they are.

I think TDs should affect missiles, but with the optimal range effect rather than the tracking effect. You can reduce the "optimal range" of missiles by reducing their velocity, then also maybe with enough TDs a small ship could actually outrun the missiles

That's exactly the reason why I forgot that some turret ships even get launcher hardpoints.

Defenders would need to be really good to make it sensible ( when you take into consideration that realistically you could only use 1 slot for that ) but then they might be too good on missile boats.
Maybe some special defender-only launcher, which would provide big bonuses to defenders could work. If fitting one of those in your hislot could give similar effect to those of tracking disruptor then it might be actually useful on some setups.

Defenders need their own launcher, one that doesn't use any type of hardpoint. That way anyone can fit them if they can spare a high slot.


Add this to fixing them to be useful, and defenders are now useful and usable.

I think this should be more of an Ewar module instead of a turret. Some sort of missle spoofing system. It pulls missles off target. You can run multiple but has stacking penalties. Not sure what the % of missle tracking lost should be used. but say 5-10 % of all incoming missles fired at your ship.

I think this would be something used to counter Drake fleets and the 100MN AB Tengu. But it's just my .02

What if defender missiles had the capability to engage a missile heading for a fleetmate? I'm seeing an aegis antimissile fit with fleet role similar to the firewall ships in use today.

How about this?

Counter Measure Launcher

Does not use a hard point
High slot module
No cap use
Does use PG

Fires one at a time, but they last longer than the RoF.

It works like the real thing, with a chance of the missile hitting the wrong object.
TP counters it, decreasing the chance.
Designed to be a utility high slot module.



Missiles are different than guns; so too should the counter to it be.

Missiles aren't that good. We don't need more ways to nerf them.