While technically that makes sense, in reality it is 'really hard' to actually shoot down missiles on purpose. Given that it takes extraordinary technology to pull off hitting a missile on purpose, it makes little sense to regularly hit your own missiles by 'accident'.
i suppose that depends on if you use shotgun/waffle point defense if the station you are shooting fires one missile and your 20 point defense turrets unload 600 rounds in the next 2 seconds you could easily accidentally shoot down your own missile especially if you are targeting the turret that fired the missile at you in the first place.
Yes, in the context of a computer game where the smallest unit of space is one meter and the actual ranges of such engagements are typically less than a thousand meters and movement relatively slow, it certainly could make 'sense' if one out of hundreds of rounds just happened to hit your own missile, by accident. In the real world, missiles have much smaller cross sections than one meter, engagement ranges tend to be significantly longer and the speed of approach is much faster. In reality, like real world reality, the chances of one's own guns accidentally shooting down one of your own missiles are astronomically remote, even if you fire thousands of rounds and even if your missile is headed to the same target.
I agree, but in this case they have made their preferences clear, and added a way for players/servers to change the behaviour via a config setting if they disagree, so best of both worlds, really.
Yeah, but the problem is when you give your missile turrets cannon backups so that they aren't wasting their time most of the fight, and they switch over to them instantly after firing the missile. Thats an AI failure when their first reaction to firing a missile is to fill it's flightpath with flak the instant its out of the tube.
If they're homing missiles, you could try to have them shoot at 90 degrees to the cannon firing direction. They'll mostly arc around the cannon fire on their way to the enemy, unless the range is extreme. Alternatively, you could use beam weapons as backups. They may not quite fit your use case, though
I thought maybe i could squeeze by with just my initial comment but obviously that isn't the case here.If they're homing missiles, you could try to have them shoot at 90 degrees to the cannon firing direction. They'll mostly arc around the cannon fire on their way to the enemy, unless the range is extreme. Alternatively, you could use beam weapons as backups. They may not quite fit your use case, though
I can kind of see where the devs are coming from with regard to realism. If I had an RPG-7 with a bore-mounted machine gun hanging off of it, I wouldn't be surprised if some machine gun round clipped the rocket on it's way to the target. However, I think I more agree with Panpiper - 3D space is huge, and object intersections are relatively rare. A few inches is a miss for a bullet, so it doesn't take much thrusting from a rocket or missile to displace it's path from a co-linear bullet trajectory. I must say, though, I relish being able to manually shoot down incoming missiles. That wouldn't be all that possible with a more realistic system.
this would be all well and good if they weren't talking about missile turrets that also had cannons on them so that all their energy regen isn't wasted during the 45 second recharge time for the missiles.
Yes, but to be fair, the topic originally was about Point Defense Turrets ; )
