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Originally posted by suicide_junkie:
Thanks. I still don't see how you could get a false ping appear to come from the side. That would leave a flickering line of sensor ghosts connecting you and the missile 
Got me, I'm pretty bad with EM physics, I've just read it's supposed to be possible, the actual methods used are probably classified. So I probably won't be telling you how anytime soon <G>
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What if your missile sends out random patterns of sensor pulses, then listens, and only follows the recieved signal that matches the timing and frequency spacing of the transmission.
To get an ECM sensor ghost of the right "color" you'd have to guess lucky and hit the missile with the correct pattern of sensor returns.
Probably possible although the return time will depend on the range to the target? But once you get an intial return the rest of the patern should follow at pretty much the same interval as you sent them out. Its likely you would have to some encode the patterns into all missiles in flight at once so their signals didn't mutually intefere with each other.
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I figured that was why the CSM only does 75 damage. Most of the nuke is wasted. I was going to make CSMs not target planets, and have a specific nuke missile to hit planets with that would be more effective.
75 damage is only enough to destroy a missile launcher and an engine or two.
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Sounds like you want drone launchers with kamikaze warheads aboard
Heh pretty much. I think that for the most part a lot of missile upgrades for ships etc don't require an entire overhaul of the launcher itself maybe some targetting system upgrades. Also I think that you should be somewhat limited in the number of missiles you can carry. Of course that would require that be treated like units or as a different type of supply so I'm not sure that it would work out all that well the way SE IV is currently set up. Might be too much detail for some people's tastes too.