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[tansytansey]

Hang on, isn't the point of fighter missiles to take up a gun slot without taking up the energy that an extra gun would consume? Otherwise, I might as well have mounted 5 Magma Hammer's and a Magma Hammer turret on my Guardian, instead of substituting one of the guns for a cannonball launcher.

I would agree that it should take skill to use missiles. In fact, to use them correctly, it already does. Right now though, I believe that missiles are not secondary, but complementary.

I prefer to think of missiles as finishers. That's always been how I've used them... for when your opponent is hanging on by a slither of hull and just won't die. But that's just me.. and I've only used missiles against npcs (apart from neutrilizers on my Stiletto...)
Missiles would work well as complementary as well. And imposed restrictions would not impeed this. They would impeed the use of missiles as primary weapons.

Missile spam is certainly unskillful, and can be easily countered with enough practice against such targets. What is much harder to counter is the sparse use of missiles, perhaps not one every pass, but maybe one every three or five. The trick with missiles is to keep your opponent guessing...

It takes a lot more skill do dodge a missile spammer than it does to spam missiles, hence, imbalance. Freelancer is a game based heavily on skill, and I believe freelancer should remain this way. Those with the skills should be able to dominate against those weaker than them in pvp, even if this is an RP server. It's one of the differences between this game and character-skill games like WoW and the likes. One should not simply be able to press Q a bunch of times and watch everything around them die. That's more of an RPG thing.

If you had asked me a month or two ago about what I thought when I saw a guy with missiles, you'd get a completely different answer. To that end, perhaps a change such as the reduction of the detonation distance of all missiles would be a good thing.

I don't believe there is a problem with the accuracy or the damage being delt from missiles. I believe it is the way they are being used that stems the problem. Energy useage or cargo/ammo restrictions are the way to go.

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