[NGTM-1R]

I'm still interested in my Screen Launcher concept, something to break up attacking fightercraft via shockwaves, but it's annoyingly difficult to make work in practice without being a danger to the firing ship.

[Snail]

Strange.

Mobius did all of these already, but thought they were bad ideas and moved on.

[Commander Zane]

Steve-O already did that one too. The man's a genius!

Which missile did that?

[General Battuta]

I'm still interested in my Screen Launcher concept, something to break up attacking fightercraft via shockwaves, but it's annoyingly difficult to make work in practice without being a danger to the firing ship.

Try using the arm distance flag so it won't blow up until it's a set distance from the launcher/target?

[Dragon]

Steve-O already did that one too. The man's a genius!

Which missile did that?

It's unreleased to public, but I have tried it and it's really difficult to use unless you fly MIG (which is fast enough to deploy it and escape before getting sucked into explosion).
It's named BHB, which is short for Black Hole Bomb, and reminds me of Black Shark missile from Descent 3 (deploying it into a convoy is just plain fun, even if it's escorted by cruiser or two).

[Commander Zane]

Figures.

[Androgeos Exeunt]

Flaming_Sword's Shivans! v0.21 mod has a Shivan subspace missile in it was well. I think it's called the "Tactical Bomb".

[NGTM-1R]

Try using the arm distance flag so it won't blow up until it's a set distance from the launcher/target?

That's not the tricky bit. I have yet to find the right balance between range and shockwave radius. It's supposed to be a relatively close-in weapon, but that's just not working because to be large enough to be useful it's damaging the firing ship, and I don't want to devote terribly many turrets to creating the screen.

[ElMattador]

A TAG style missle that allows for a permanent aspect missile lock, as it's jammed into their hull.  Thus, no matter where they fly, or if you change targets and reaquire them later, you would maintain persistant aspect missile lock with your other bank of missiles.  They could be heat-seekers, like Rockeye/MX-50s, but a bit faster and a bit smaller, allowing for an equal payload to any missle in the inventory with the exception of the dumbfire rockets.  By the way, I'd like a dumbfire rocket with more punch but lower payload as a "big brother" to the ones already present in FS1&2

[Commander Zane]

Like the Hammer and Hurricane?

[Narwhal]

Half-life Gravity gun !

More seriously, I think Star Control / Ur-Quan Masters has quite a few ideas. To cite a few :

- The (Spathi Discriminator/Eluder's) Backwards Utilizing Tracking Torpedo. Missile leaving from the back of the ship, to get rid of those obnoxious people following you
- The (Umgah Drone's) anti-matter vent, which fires a short-range cone of destruction.
- The (Druuge Mauler's) ultra-long range canon, with the ship jumping back when he fires. Like space artillery.
- The Zog, Fot and Pik tongue, a very short range very powerful anti-capship laser, fired from fighters
- The (Slylandro Probe's) electric arc. As the name imply. Very random.
- The (Vux Intruder's) blobs, mine that slow down and paralyze the victim.

And, of course, the Shofixti Scout's Glory Device. People understand what I mean.

[deathfun]

I say a secondary weapon that fires droids that cut into the hull permanently damaging subsystems on the targeted ship

Much like what you saw in Star Wars III, during the opening sequence

[IronBeer]

Disposable energy cells that can be taken in place of missiles.

[ElMattador]

Maybe a bomb that temporarily screws up the subspace feild, preventing immediate vicinity reinforcement or escape (use wisely) for a short time.  (reinforcements would still arrive, but just much farther away)

OR

A bomb that screws up the subspace feild not enough to effect ship movement, because it's got enough punch to prevent all local comms.  This would be really handy on those infiltration type missions.

[QuantumDelta]

You mean like the Subach-Tempest,

Eh?

[Droid803]

It's what you're basically stuck with using for the first part of the campaign, on account of the Prometheus R sucking monkey balls and Rockeyes taking up too much space to be effective at anti-transport/anti-cruiser work.

That's the reason I use that combination.

[IronBeer]

Rockeyes are trash in campaign, but the Prom R paired with a Subach isn't half-bad. Transcend forced me to get good with the combination.   

[Stormkeeper]

I would like to see a Rockeye II. One that actually works.

[Solatar]

The MX-50 was decent in FS1 against the Vasudans because they had no shields.  It became useless after shields became widespread.

The Rockeye is a glorified MX-50, and it is equally as ineffective.

[ElMattador]

I'm thowing in with the better Rockeye/MX 50 group .  I'd like a better fire&forget heat-seeker too    Little bit faster, little bit more damage, at least the same maneuverability, and about average range.