High speed hardened missiles

[Shipbuilder]

One thing that occurred to me is how slow the missiles are in elite/oolite compared to the speed of ships.

My suggestion would be the development of fast missiles with a speed of something like 0.8LM however in order to avoid unbalancing the game the destructive power of the missiles could be offset by the speed so that a number of missile hits would be required to destroy a cobra mark 3 NPC ship.

What are people's thoughts on this ?

[Diziet Sma]

They already exist as OXPs.. faster, hardened, packing less of a punch.

See: I Missile, & Missiles and Bombs.

[Shipbuilder]

Thanks Diziet I wasn't aware of this oxp.

[Thargoid]

And the interceptor missiles (and a few others) in Armoury.

[DaddyHoggy]

Missiles are quick compared to core ships sans injectors.

It's mainly the steady march towards the blandness of uberness that has rendered standard missiles somewhat less than lethal nowadays

[UK_Eliter]

See also my Nexus missiles (if you'd be so good). One of those goes at 0.75, another at 0.78, and another at (0.76 + fuel injection). And they have advantages other than speed. The problem is, they are expensive and somewhat hard to find.

[Shipbuilder]

UK-Eliter I'll check this out thanks