Posted by: Brian Neumann
« on: September 19, 2011, 07:17:15 PM »Brian - thanks for correcting my goof on the seeker heads - I forget that you could put passive heads on missiles.No problem. I actually don't like putting an active sensor on missiles as they are generally to short ranged against small targets, and if you set them for a larger signature they just won't see the smaller ones at all. That is why I really like the em sensors as they work against any target, any only fighters and gunboats are not likely to have an em signature unless they have active sensors. By the time the missiles are looking for a target however most targets will have active sensors as well. This ends up leaving only missiles and fighters as targets that they won't engage. Also against ships with heavy shields or a large active sensor they have a pretty good detection range. One time it was even close to 3 minutes of flight time, about 7 million kilometers, which is pretty darn good when you think about it. For the targets I was shooting at it was about 20 minutes at full speed.
Brian