I was thinking today of a modified rocket that would be very useful to miners. This rocket could be used to launch a marker at an astroid that would leave a visible marker that could be seen for say up to maybe an hour after it contacts the astroid. Maybe a flasher of some sort, and could be seen for about 5k visually, and farther as a blip on radar. Also once planted it could be cancelled by a shot from an energy weapon. I sure would be an asset to miners working dense and heavily populated roid fields.

Getting Targetless and recording your favorite asteroids already exists. As long as you are in radar range, it will direct you to the roid in question- which is exactly what your asking for with a 5k m rocket beacon- which I might add, in a dense asteroid field like you describe, might not turn out to be as visible as you'd like.

Ok, well I didn't know that functionality existed! Now that I see it in action it works very well! And thank you to Death Fluffy for pointing this out to me, and to Thetis for his patient instruction in helping me to learn how to make it work.

Marker rockets would still be cool!!! Puttin in your claim an all that.

+1 to some sort of visible flare or beacon.

This could be helpful when coordinating other players or setting a rally point for things like group bombing runs and nation war etc.

Targetless should just become part of the default install.

Targetless is not always usefull. In some situations having a marker that could be dropped and allowed to persist for a while would fill in the gaps.

+1

Targetless is not always usefull. In some situations having a marker that could be dropped and allowed to persist for a while would fill in the gaps.

Ahem, it's the greatest plugin in teh interwebz, tyvm.

+1

Targetless should just become part of the default install.

+1.

+1 to OP, as well, though. Could have some strategic use if it could also be shot at ships.