Point Def. too tough against missiles-change it.

[Q]

There is a very simple possibility to increase the power of missiles:
Reduce the "Tonnage Space Taken".
It is now 50kT for CSM and Plasma missiles. If you reduced it, may be gradually according to the tech levels, you get more missiles in your ships and it will be harder for the point defence cannons to destroy all of them.

[Suicide Junkie]

For another solution, but some fighters in your missile ships, make 'em all shields & engines.

The fighters will absorb 5-6 PD shots each, and your missiles will devastate the enemy ships. Then, with crippled enemies, use beams to finish em.

Or, put a long-range tractor beam on your missile ship. You pull the one enemy in, and hit 'em point blank with missiles, giving them no chance to use their PD effectively.

[Nitram Draw]

Can you put PD on fighters?

[Windborne]

For armored, ecm using missiles just create fighters with explosive warheads and a kamakazi tactic, granted you have to build each "Missil" seperately but they do tons of damage.

[Suicide Junkie]

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Originally posted by Nitram Draw:
Can you put PD on fighters?

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Not in the original game, but it is easily modded. (just set a PDC to be placed on fighters too)
Unless you make a new component, though, only the large fighters would be able to cram in a full-fledged PDC

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As for armored/ECM missiles, just add a new missile type (copy the entire CSM tech thread) and add more hitpoints & cost to the missiles.

[This message has been edited by suicide_junkie (edited 28 March 2001).]

[Baron Munchausen]

There is an image for a small PDC in the components directory. You just need to edit the components.txt file to create it for fighters. Now if MM will just get DRONES into the game so we can put them on drones, too.

[Baal]

One of my missile solving problems was to make a flare/decoy missile that could absorb 2 or 3 PDC hits and place it as the first weapon on your ship with normal missiles after. Since the weapons fire left to right the flare missile would absorb the hits of 2- 3 PDCs and leaving the path fairly clear for the other CSMs to hit the ship.

This would be a neat support tech to add. It would help keep fighters alive as well.