Imo this would be a good idea. It wont take many fights before you have lost all your fighters if they will be hit by secondary fire.

We decided during the dev meeting yesterday to speed up missiles and make them inherit ship velocity to make it easy to shoot them at an angle so they will avoid shots.

Jey himself said it was not necessary to make secondary fighters miss shots since fighters are suppose to be disposable. He's arranging that by making the smaller in size so you can carry more. Since Jey is one of the heaviest fighter users in the game, i think we can trust him on this issue.

Missiles inherit ship velocity so I can fire them at an angle? I really hope you have improved the missiles aiming system, because if the missile is not fired head on to my enemy then it misses.

Jon is going to take a look into make them viable in the new system. He will update you this week on his progress.

shiny

Another Hostile fire Query

Will hostile fire (aimed at a hostile target in pvp range but impacting on another hostile ) comply with the pvp conditions.

or if you are not in pvp range are u non hostile.

Another query/suggestion

With all these new options for PvB are bases going to have their AI modified to cope with them or have a manual override got targetting.

And the old chestnut with the changes in size and weight of gear will bases finally get tractoring and scooping ability?

I hope this is enough. AI tend to always do their best to run straight at you while firing, so their projectiles will pretty much always be pointed at your missiles anyway. It's not as though a capship can get around behind them or on an angle to fire missiles. Also, there is the pvp issue. A solid wall of excomm bullets from a zerker will still render missiles and fighters useless. Please don't take this as a complaint. I'm just putting my two cents in since I probably use missiles as much as anybody.

And don't take Jey's word for anything! He is so uber that no matter what you do to capships he will find a way to break them. Have mercy on us poor players who can only hope to achieve some level of barely respectable mediocrity in his shadow!

PVP is taken into account (that was stated earlier in this thread, i remember that).

Base AI has already been changed to cope with these changes.

Yeah base AI is pretty good.
Well my achilles bases raped a whole galaxy by itself, so i assume it is.

That proves absolutely nothing.

These things need to be TESTED properly.

Sorry but changing some script and hoping for the best is not testing.

I believed Jeff then he said nothing is going live until it has been throughly tested.

I see check lists of things being completed that even a cursory glance can detect mistakes in.

I do hope that Jeff has some regard for his credibility and reputation, its on the line.