Counter-measures (CMs), in our world, almost every weapon has a counter weapon. Missiles can be deflected by chaffs and flares, bullets can be stopped by bullet resistant armor, indeed even radar isn't immune to "stealth" coating on aircraft or being jammed.

Those are all active and availible CMs of the 21st century, one can only guess what kind of counter-measures are availible in this "fictional" world. Which leads me to my next question: where are the CMs?

My suggestion, for those that take suggestions, is to stop tinkering with more weapons and start balancing them with CMs. After all, what better way to neutralize a weapons power than to make something that renders it useless.

Below is a list of possible CM suggestions, take them as you will.

Flare - causes a momentary flash across the screen (.5 secs), blinding the screen to anyone facing the explosion.

Chaffs - bits of electonically charge metals to confuse missiles.

Radar Jamming Signals - Jams a radar at 500m causing the radar to be useless.

Stealth Coat - A specialized paint that removes a ships radar sigature. Effective until scratched (meaning 1 hit and the coating is useless, much like the 117A's paint job).

there is a thread...

http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com/?action=msgboard&thread=1494&page=4

That's the whole toys thread, but there is a more detailed countermeasure specific thread floating around somewhere as well.

UPDATE: Found it.

http://vendetta.guildsoftware.com/?action=msgboard&thread=2402

BTW, the toys thread is hopelessly out of date. I just bring it up to point out to people that indeed ALL of the obvious things have in fact been thought of, not once, but many many times. Believe me, if its a feature from the X-Wing games or Wing Commander or Elite or EV-Nova, you don't have to suggest.

I think there should be a thing, like a mine, that you could drop and then detonate with some kind of a detonator, that would destroy any SunFlares shot at you from behind

That's called a mine.

Ask a "DUH" (Dumb, Unbelievably Heinous) question, get a "DUH" response.

There are no dumb questions, only lots of stupid inquisitive people.

At anyrate, he wasn't asking a question he was making a statement, or more aproperately, a suggestion.

I believe mines dont have a remote detonator, and they have a bit too short of a range

also, mines don't detonate flares and vice versa, if i'm not mistaken.
that "mine" resembles a bit the "smart bomb" that makes all baddies vanish from the screen (popular in horizontally and vertically scrolling arcade games.

Flares do detonate mines if something else (like an asteroid) detonates the flares... I've asked for flare-detonating mines for, like, ever. Nobody ever gives them to me.