Missiles and Torpedoes: Are they worth it?

[uvelius]

Problem is greifers would use something like an asp to blow up tradecondas just to ruin the game for other people.

Hmmm … I am sure there could be a solution with countermeasures, so that a pure battle build would not invest into countermeasures as much as a trader (for example, make it a Weapon instead a Utility). But that would require quite a lot of balancing and re-balancing, so that will probably never happen.

[FANTA5M1C]

Yeah, I played with missiles and torpedoes the last couple of days and I don't see much use for them. They are fun to fire and watch, assuming they don't get shot down or spoofed by chaff, but having to take the shields down first makes them semi-useless in defensive applications. It would be nice to have an EMP pulse torpedo that would disable nearby ships while you make your escape. Otherwise, you're better off just jumping to a nearby system.

I wonder what dropping some mine behind you and you try to boost away would do? I assume they are useless against shields too.

As far as I know, mines will still damage shields if they can actually hit. I haven't tried it in elite yet, but in another space sim I used to play mines became a pretty effective punishment against jousters if you learned to dump one right before the cross.

[TorTorden]

Now I'm trying four small missile launchers on my BB runner asp.
Two medium bursts for shields and four seekers right to the face.

Eagles go bye bye