Ships & Modules

And none of these things are missile specifc, and not also simultaneously anti-turret, except the broken defenders, and smartbombs which only work in a fleet situation and even then not so well. Smarties are a better anti-drone defense than anti-missile.

The tracking disrupter (and TE and TC) changes are still stated to be in the pipeline. There's been no statment that the idea has been abandonned. It's just that they recognize the danger of either making missiles too powerful or tracking disruptors too mandatory.

Tracking disruptors already royally **** over turrets and many ships the spew missiles sport them and roll over turret ships for this very reason. The only way I see them implementing this is if they decently nerf the effects on turrets, and make the new missile effects weak also (just as they will have to make the missile effects of TEs and TCs as well). If the effects were made weak enough on non-bonused boats then we might see less use of TDs on so many ships not bonused for them and more use of ships bonused for them.

As for the above bandied damp idea, frankly damps are fine atm. Where this proposed effect could make a difference is with the painters themselves. Painter boats are rarely worth using. But then CCP would have to reevaluate the rather pronounced smaller sigs on Minmatar ships and especially the ships bonused for painters.

Absent either of these, CCP will have to come up with something very new and different like a chaff/flare launcher or some such that is not "my ship only" specific like the failure defenders are.

As things are now there really is no specific missile defense. You either have enough hp/resist tank or enough speed tank to mitigate the missile damage. Which again are things that are not missile specific.

Yes we can! :)

Exactly...so lower the scan res of the ship being affected AND making your ship appear smaller sig wise to targeted ship. This in effect would make a TD for missiles.

Double (or even triple*) missile damage, halve (third) launcher ROF and make all ship 'missile damage bonuses' ROF only. Then add in a proper CIWS (racial flavours) that can target the missiles - we know this is possible as in Castor you could manually target missiles to shoot them down.

In doing those 'utility missile slots' that have been around forever are not a complete waste of space - if a missile hits, it really hurts, but can countered by a working CIWS that you could have installed instead. Also it lowers some of the strain on the server.

* This would put the alpha strike of a cruise Raven (faction) to around the same ballpark as a full rack of 1400's, Torp (faction) alpha strike (with BCU's) would be peak over the 15K mark.

Well - I could also live with it if it would be non-scripted mod and disrupters specifically for missiles. So you can either fit "missile tracking diruptor" that dirupts missile range or a diroutpr that disrupts missile sig or explosion speed. And same for the boost modules and tracking links.

If I could make my torpedos to go 100 km I would quite happily use them again in PvE. How hard it could be - just throw three faction tracking links on a logi alt orbiting you. For turrets a shadow serpentis tracking link with optimal range script from minmatar logi was giving pretty substantial bonus - if I remeber correct then approx 45% per link.

Having 3x +45% range links on a ship would increase the range from 40 km up to about 100 km with stacking penalties taken into account.

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sensor damps don't make your sig smaller, they make the sensor resolution on the targeted ship smaller.

no difference in DPS, only locking time.

No sh!t....learn to read