Player Features and Ideas Discussion

It is long overdue for a Ballistic Enhancer for missiles.
Even drones now have low-slot enhancements, yet missile ships are continually relegated to utilizing rigs for improving missile ballistic damage application. I'm not advocating this because every other weapon system has two types of damage application modules - but because none of them require rigs to apply any kind of substantial damage. Based on feedback and discussion in the thread, I've adjusted the proposed variant as follows.

• First and foremost, this is a low-slot module (only). Most missile-based hulls have fewer low slots, so the idea is to trade raw damage for improved damage application. Similarly, most missile-based hulls also have an insane number of mid slots - so I didn't want to see this overpowered or abused, either.
• This module is stacking-penalized with other modules as well as any applicable rigs. I left the values for explosion radius/velocity at 10% respectively, as with the upcoming module tiercide we're probably going to see some changes.
• Finally, in lieu of the missile velocity increase there's an accompanying flight time penalty reduction such that overall range drops but time to impact increases. I think this is an acceptable trade-off and avoids the bizarre range scenarios. Comments welcome.

Ballistic Enhancer II
Explosion radius: 10%
Explosion velocity: 10%
Missile Velocity: 20% (-25% reduction in flight time)

Turret rigs are a straight 15% while TE2s are 20 falloff 10 optimal, 9.5 tracking

So given that we could just match them it would be explosion velocity 10 radius 9.5 Missile Velocity 20

So his numbers are good enough. THis doesnt count for things like tracking computers.

Now drone stuff follows the same as turrets now, so it stands that a missile mod would as well.

150km coraxs.

again missile velocity would cause problems but if you couple it with a reduction in flight time then it could be useful and i think balanceable but i haven't given that much though

It is slightly odd that this idea (and a corresponding ewar) has been around forever, everyone seems to broadly agree its a good and blindingly obvious thing and yet its never been implemented.

Without knowing why its hard to do anything but wildly throw numbers at the wall and see what sticks (see above).

Semi-related, but missiles could benefit from an overall velocity bonus and corresponding flight time reduction aside from any ballistic enhancements.

In general, missiles are dealing with an entirely separate set of circumstances for application from turrets. I don't know that they need to have the same sort of application enhancements that turrets need.

They already have excellent projection range, and don't need a lot of help in that area. I can see allowing a trade off of range for veleocity. Fuel burns hotter, but less efficiently.

The application stats don't need enhancing in the absence of ewar to bring it down. As a total package it's probably fine, but not in pieces.

Turret versus launcher, also destroyer versus assault frigate
Try the hawk, it can do better
So its actually turret versus launcher at different roles
Eve isnt a multimodal game

Turrets and missiles are not the same thing, they work entirely different.

A work-around for the 35-second ammunition swap on rapid launchers…?