C'mon. You know you wanna...

What about a 3 second arming delay instead?

Why on earth would you want to decrease the capability of swarms?

It's not like they're very effective anyway, although i do like the 3 secs arming delay idea.

They're effective enough when there are 40+ missiles flying in from all directions.

Well then they've run out of ammo haven't they :D

That sounds like it would actually be a lot of fun... get an IBG Cent, put it up against a few Rags loaded w/ Swarms & Gems, & see who can last the longest...

the IBG cent should. That damn thing is fast!

beolach with the no proximity or the 40+ missiles?

in no proximity: ibg
in 40+ missiles : depends which distance they are shot

40+ missiles. And, to make it really fun, either limit the IBG to no turbo, or stick a medium battery in it.

"Oh yeah, Sarris? Well, what you fail to realize is... I'm dragging mines!"

yeah, I think its odd that all the swarms have proximity. while no other guided missile does..

its like

low level missile: crap
medium level missile: crap
high level missile: annoyingly useful and totally different in kind from every other missile.

Do these weps add that much interesting gameplay? Don't they just detract from people learning a real weapon form?

These are not useless weapons. When I was flying yesterday, I got swarm rammed... 1-shot to kill, and impossible to dodge in the hog I was trying out because of the proximity.

Hmm.... do missiles do double damage to the ship that fired them, or is that only rockets?

Please don't nerf a counter to rocket ramming Proms.

if swarms are the appropriate counter to proms, the prom needs a bit of work

Im all for making them no prox, but if that does happen, we should give them thier old manueverability back. I think that would make swarms both more usuable, and not overpowered, the biggest issue with the swarms is they do a huge amoutn of damage, and have a fairly large proximity range, with thier old manuverability, they would still be a threat, but also be dodgeable if you focused on dodging them.

Swarms don't work against the single-AGT prom, but they do when the Prom is turboing towards you.

a rocket ramming skyprom can still survive a face full of swarms. 16 missles, and the thing is still flying... F that..

the swarms are fine as they are. sure they're annoying, but they're only so-effective.