[Request] Mount tracking turrets on medium ships.

[H34Dru5H]

Why can't we mount tracking turrets on medium ships? I know we can fit missile launches on S/M combat ships but trading ships don't have hardpoints to mount them on, but they do have a max allocation of missiles to carry, which may be useful for restocking large ships but it's only like 20 missiles. If those 20 missiles could be fired from a turret or two, Johnny Pirate might think twice about chasing Dwayne Dibley with his Cowboy modded tracking turrets aimed squarely at his rear end. They don't like it up 'em Captain!

[H34Dru5H]

An old post I know but is nobody else interested in fitting tracking turrets on medium ships? Or perhaps there is a reason why we can't have this feature? Just wondering..

[Feloidea]

It is a singleplayer game so overall it's not dramatic, but it would be a huge power spike for M ships if they could. You could turn any M ship with a good number of M turret slots into a missile frigate. Would make some ships more attractive (like the gunboat corvettes becoming a lot more powerful) but others would become borderline overpowered (Jian with six missile turrets, oh Lord).

I'm not categorically against something like that, but before there should be any major change for missile armaments should be considered there's a bunch of things that ought to be refined when it comes to missiles, ESPECIALLY turret behaviours not working as they should (looking at you "Capitals only" setting flinging my limited missiles at S and M ships) and the logistics of replenishing missiles to ships of all sizes and stations.

Once that stuff is done I wouldn't mind missile turrets as an option for M ships. I'd personally love it if the L missile turrets turned into VLS cells (at least for tracking missiles) and enabled L/XL ships with them to use something akin to the missile barrage.

[chew-ie]

An old post I know but is nobody else interested in fitting tracking turrets on medium ships? Or perhaps there is a reason why we can't have this feature? Just wondering..

I am - but honestly, I gave up on Egosoft doing anything meaningful on the weapon department. We had new laser colors and some pulse laser redesign since release, that's about it.