[TopAce]

I believe it would be a plain sailing to do:
I imagine a missile that is not going forward than any other missiles, it is like a countermeasure and goes backward for defensive purposes. It would be launched from the countermeasure pad(so from the 0, 0, 0 co-ordinates of the fighter model). Would be useful for bomber pilots.

Do you think it would be useful? Maybe a new weapon flag.

[Hippo]

sortof like the countermeasure mines... only better... you would have to make them heat seeking or cluster bombs, but then you could have them as an optional loadout in replacement of countermeasures... interesting...

[aldo_14]

So.... you'd be firing at a target you couldn't see?

[Starks]

You can always use your rear-view button on your joystick.

[Taristin]

...make it heat seaking so there'd be no bogeys on your tail.

[HellToupee]

they had these in xwing series the flar would fireback wards at missles or if thei were none the closest enemy ship.

[Nuke]

ya know, you can have missile turrets on your bomber

i made a missile that realeases decoys. you fire them around capship turrets, which then try to shoot them all down. they occupy a turret's time long enough to allow for a bomb strike.

[Taristin]

...decoys? Elaborate?

[aldo_14]

Loads of cluster missiles tbled up specially?

[Nuke]

decoy missiles simply act as a screen against capship turrets. capship turrets will assume that they are incoming warheads and try to shoot them down, adverting theit attention form you and your bombs.  its simply a missile with a spawn flag. it then spawns a bunch of small, slow moving submunitions that have a bmob flag, but little explosive ability. firing thm close to a capship will direct all the turrets to the bomblets, and away from bombers, real bombs and the like.

[TrashMan]

Great stuff....the gunners on those capships are really dumb:D

[redsniper]

I think the guns are automated.

[Stryke 9]

All that stuff sounds like table and modelview stuff, though- backfacing missile launchers (also good for minelaying, chaff, **** like that) and something like a Pirahna.

I think it'd be better (and, last I checked, more relevant to the source, as unless I'm mistaken CMs are a different issue than regular missiles) to give the countermeasures a reasonable damage value. It's quite possible to give someone tailing you a faceful of countermeasurage if you keep going straight for a couple seconds and then brake suddenly, and actually making that something that'd be worth doing beyond just freaking people out in dogfights would add some new complexity to the combat in the game- something that's kinda lacking so far even with all the **** added by the SCP.

[Nuke]

freelancer had mines and i never used them. im usually more concerned with putting the ship behind be in front of me so i can shoot him. when a ship is slow i usually cover it with turrets.

[Stryke 9]

Mines would be for very specific missions. Or, more likely, for AI-controlled ships, because minelaying is indeed not all that interesting. At least, not until we can do it I-War style, which was really more booby-trapping than minelaying.