Yeah, the fact that missiles are so easy to shoot down is a bit of a pain. The main problem is that the missiles' hitboxes are so large that you varely need to aim at all in order to take them out. So what can I do about it?
-Shrink the hitbox: This can apparently be done by altering some level of detail on the missile model itself, however this would have to be done to each and every model, moreover requiring skills which I don't possess. So for the meantime that's out the window.
-Make missiles tougher: Sadly, AFAIK for regular missiles that's impossible - if some clever modder out there does know a way I'd love to hear from them. The only exception, strangely enough, is boarding pods - their HP is defined in a seperate little file named Globals. So I'll have a look and make sure it wouldn't be incompatible with anything much (as I aim to make this turkey compatible with as many other mods as possible), and for boarding pods this might well be a viable option.
-Speed: Yes, increasing the speed will make missiles harder to hit and to some degree that's what I've already done. However, I'm worried about a couple of things, namely 1)Missiles become so fast, that the player cannot offer a meaningful defence or have time to evade. This would especially be a problem for M3s without turrets like the Barracuda, which rely on the player's reflexes to shoot down incoming missiles. Also 2)The vanilla missile defences would become even more of a joke than they already are. Bear in mind that this mod is tuned towards vanilla TC - it's nice if it makes MDMk2 or MARS easier to beat, but that's not the aim of the mod and I won't do so at the expense of vanilla users. So on balance, I probably won't increase the speed of these missiles without a lot of thought, and/or a large baying mob demanding that I do so.
Conclusion then: Sorry paulwheeler, it looks like there isn't really much I can do about that within the scope of this mod. I will look at making the boarding pods tougher, but other changes will require a lot of testing, time which I don't have to spare owing to lectures and nother modding project which will go up on the forums either today or tomorrow.
Keep throwing the feedback at me though
