Today I was thinking of the existing weapons - and different versions that could be added. One that sort of stuck out to me was the flare countermeasures. First off - it would have to be renamed as we already have flares.

The basic idea is to attract missiles to it when deployed. This could be a good defense for capital ship pews,and give some challenge to attackers. It could even be a Cap- only weapon or have some ridiculous grid requirement like the CWM. Like the flare systems the USAF use today.

PS: You can't say this is bias (due to the simple fact I don't own a capital vessel).

First they'd have to fix the undock/lose-the-lock exploit and then this might have some legs. Otherwise it's too complex an idea for too little gameplay gain.

Are you 100% sure that's not an intended feature, greenie?

show of hands who sees the unintentional, seredipitous irony in JJ's post?

o/

As for the name of it conflicting with "flares", simply call it "chaff".

Oh,I should have thought of that.