So i've been watching EnterElysium playthrough and he mentioned an excel spreadsheet to help design missiles, and how to deal with people complaining about safety, that was currently plaguing my playthrough and just sending ground troops seemed to bring the political stability modifier back down.
Regardless, I designed my first Anti-Ship Missile, it's been 320y + since i started my game and thus completed quite a lot of research into missiles, following his playthrough I designed a size 6 damage 9 missile "Stinger":
Missile Size: 6 MSP (0.3 HS) Warhead: 9 Armour: 0 Manoeuvre Rating: 16
Speed: 79800 km/s Engine Endurance: 242 minutes Range: 1 160.6m km
Cost Per Missile: 8.8982
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 1276.8% 3k km/s 416% 5k km/s 255.4% 10k km/s 127.7%
Materials Required: 2.25x Tritanium 6.6482x Gallicite Fuel x755.25
Development Cost for Project: 890RP
The first thing i noticed is the ridiculously high speed this guy moves, and it didn't occur to me to try to fit more damage seeing as my engine tech is apparently amazing until after I got all my PDC's up and running fully stocked with them.
I know this is not the fastest missile out there but that speed is just faster than most point defense would expect to intercept.
Curiously enough I used the same sheet to design AMMs, here's the "Pin":
Missile Size: 1 MSP (0.05 HS) Warhead: 1 Armour: 0 Manoeuvre Rating: 45
Speed: 36500 km/s Engine Endurance: 9.1 hours Range: 1 194.1m km
Cost Per Missile: 1.3962
Chance to Hit: 1k km/s 1642.5% 3k km/s 540% 5k km/s 328.5% 10k km/s 164.2%
Materials Required: 0.25x Tritanium 1.1462x Gallicite Fuel x751
Development Cost for Project: 140RP
That's fast but not blazing fast like Stinger.
Pretty sure i could've tried to squeeze more damage into my ASM until it speed became lower than my AMM, just as reference, but at the same time the Stinger would be very hard to intercept.
This also made me realize how annoying it is to supply those missiles to a PDC, which made me seriously consider beam weapon as main damage and meson cannons as PD, but since i have no idea how to do that i just followed what EE did.
So what you guys think?