how bout this then missile/jump gives you another "lock on missile" this one however is slightly different it moves at normal server speed for 10 seconds maybe 15 seconds and then "jumps" into the target basically simulating a missile that is fired and then has its own very short range(basically it just fires and then after 15 seconds it hit scans whatever it was locked onto and deals damage) the trade off for this however is that it has 10 or 15 seconds of vulnrability to long range cannon fire meaning that shitty 2 block cannon cannon point defense turrets are not enough anymore you also need cannon beam point defense turrets to deal with this kind of missile @ long range.
Ofcourse this could get kind of over bearing in sieges so obviously you make the max range slightly shorter than that off regular lock on missiles and of course they would be useless at short range cause a regular ship can outrun them till standard point defense takes them out.
Or maybe they don't instantly teleport maybe after you lock on you fire the missiles then they act like standard lock ons approaching their target at normal server max speed then after 10 seconds they accelerate to 12x server speed simulating a warp speeds achieving the same thing a way to bypass standard cannon cannon point defense but being vulnerable to a new kind of point defense because every weapon needs a weakness right?
I don't actually see you hand charging the missile/jump combo i see it as you lock on and then they "acquire a target" charge their jump jump/warp for 10 seconds the vulnerable period before rapidly descending at speeds that would make them incredibly hard to shoot down.
