Geosurvey Rocket?

[liveware (OP)]

Greetings,

Is it possible to launch a missile from a planetary facility or ground unit? I remember messing around with geosurvey missiles in VB6 Aurora and was trying to implement something similar in the C# version. I've designed and built some geosurvey missiles in my current game but I can't figure out how to launch them unless I build a ship and load them onboard.

Is it possible to ground-launch a missile?

Also, is it possible to delete an outdated missile design? Can't find a way to do this either.

I'm running V193.

[Conscript Gary]

No, missiles cannot be launched from the ground. You could probably get away with using an engineless fighter, though.
Missiles should be obsoleteable in the tech summary like anything else.

[liveware (OP)]

I decided I will just add them as an extra feature for my survey ship. Still working on getting that figured out though since I will need to research more stuff first.

I found also that in the class design screen, under the ordnance tab, there is a button to mark missile designs as obsolete.

[logancapitalist]

I'm trying to do this now.  My first interstellar survey ship has some rudimentary missiles with grav survey sensors.  I cannot actually get it to launch them though. 

I have Fire control assigned, the missile assigned to the launcher and it appears to me the launcher assigned to firecontrol. . . but it won't fire at the waypoint I've created.   

[liveware (OP)]

Haven't gotten out of my home system yet, and I decided to build a rather large survey vessel starting off. I haven't got the shipyard capacity I need yet to build the vessel I am ultimately trying to build. Should be soon enough however. I will then see if I can get a survey missile to work properly.

[logancapitalist]

I did manage to launch probes with Geo Sensors , however they arrive and don't see to do any surveying.   


EDIT: Turns out they were surveying. . . just I had no way to tell. . . . took some weeks for results to come in. . . .

[vorpal+5]

There is a delay in receiving reports from grav survey? That would be surprising!

[logancapitalist]

There is a delay in receiving reports from grav survey? That would be surprising!

It's a good mechanic. . . . just there is no way to tell if your probes are working (that I can see).  Hence confusion. 

[Father Tim]

There is a delay in receiving reports from grav survey? That would be surprising!

It's a good mechanic. . . . just there is no way to tell if your probes are working (that I can see).  Hence confusion.

C# Aurora generally does not have "this is happening" messages, only "this is done" ones.