A flare missile

[dusty parrot]

A missile that upon dying shoots a burst of flares that redirect PD, Flak and other missiles, similar to how fighter jets use flares, also i guess its factory could use carbon.

[polar seal]

Carbon is rare and very limited, we could use missile + (and a another material)

Its would be easier to acquire

[hidden bough]

that would be useful against HE spam

but I think it should not work on Nukes due to their way of targetting and shooting (plus they have been nerfed a enough already)

[dusty parrot]

fair enough, but also this would be really strong against certain builds, so i think it would be fair

[hidden bough]

it might also work as a "shield"

lets just say a railgun shot or cannon shot hits this projectile, I think it should block it and break itself

this would make it possible to create a projectile shield against light weaponary that can be shot down

like DC, but nukes will penetrate at least 2-3 of those projectiles due to HP of a nuke

[dusty parrot]

yeah

[wind burrow]

Hmm, I originally envisioned flares/countermeasures as an anti-missile defense but that didn't seem very interesting. Your proposal is more of an anti-anti-missile system, which seems potentially more interesting.

[manic cypress]

some form of 'decoy' missile that attracts flak and PD would be cool

[restive pivot]

Can't wait to fight a Monolith missile spam ship just for my PD to do nothing lol

[icy pivot]

more kiting yay

(false)

[deft inlet]

rip cannon hybridization :(

imo not needed because using cannons does same thing but also encourages hybrids (good)

[dusty parrot]

i mean the fact that the small cannon kinda sucks already makes it already the case

[deft inlet]

?? sc is literally better than lc in most cases

[dusty parrot]

doesn't it do less dps

and less range

[potent frigate]

Distraction of Missile, EMP and Mines could be cool as a kind of defense.

I see the standard problem of protecting the back and sides of the ship:

Pro Armor: never fails till it is destroyed, needs no crew/maintenance.
Con Armor: It is heavy (even more by layering) After destruction, there is no protection at all

Pro Flare: is lighter, long term protection
Con Flare: needs some kind of Ammo, Crew and maintenance. Can fail like PD/Flak.

[sacred ermine]

I love this idea it would spice up the gameplay a bit

[rare basin]

if this implemented, their would a ship class called "Interceptor" that intercepts, distract or disrupt ships, annoyingly...

-# Lets gooooooooooooooooooooo

[hidden bough]

we already have those

they just use EMP in a big amount being one of the most annoying ships on the field

[rare basin]

Wow, I cant imagine the amount of EMF that thing would give, lol

[hidden bough]

EMF?

[rare basin]

Electromagnetic field

[hidden bough]

well, lets just say, 4 EMP is enough to turn any ship below 150-200K into useless piece of scrap

[fluid wyvern]

so like a flare shotgun to draw out PD and flak fire ?

as a side use, maybe contact fire (has, idk, a % of chance to start a fire on the block touched)

well, sounds like a new mod idea for me (easier to make than teleporting mines that i keep putting for later)

[dusty parrot]

that would be cool, also, that gives me the idea of a flame througher

[fluid wyvern]

througher ?

[dusty parrot]

thrower

[fluid wyvern]

i thought so XD

[dusty parrot]

😔

[deft inlet]

there already is one of these :( it is called cannon

[slim ember]

counterpoint : cannons need to be close range to do their distraction effect

works well on small ships due to ranges, but large ones do not scale well

[deft inlet]

?? even at 5m+ they work fine