realism suggestion

[KrogothFTW]

Right, I'm new here, have no idea of the current balance, but here's my suggestion, just because I like gunships IRL:

Give gunships a tac missile launcher that does about 500 damage (possibly guided).missiles must be built (max 1 or 2) and energy and mass paid for, which would require it to be stationary, I expect. Range about same as mml.

[KrogothFTW]

I figure it would need the fire tac missile command to fire.

[justmakenewgame]

that is starcraft type of gameplay.

[Vee]

This is a game with giant UFOs that shoot laser beams. No realism here.

[Aurion]

This might be moddable for someone willing to do it, why not (if someone thinks it's interesting enough to make a mod)?

[Crotalus]

I guess one of the gunships could have a bit cooler missile firing, hellfire looking, weapon rack. At the moment they all have almost the same mechanics with short-range laser/guns.

But yeah, this is probably more of a mod (isn't there missile gunships in Blackops?), I don't know how they look in Nomads, maybe their gunships are more like this.

[Aurion]

I guess one of the gunships could have a bit cooler missile firing, hellfire looking, weapon rack. At the moment they all have almost the same mechanics with short-range laser/guns.

But yeah, this is probably more of a mod (isn't there missile gunships in Blackops?), I don't know how they look in Nomads, maybe their gunships are more like this.

Renegades fire some kind of missiles right?

[Gerfand]

cool Idea, but you need to consider 2 things:
people would abuse those gunships. or they would not eve use it because of the intensive micro
and like in games, the future will have a new meta... and a bunch of normal cannon fire can be this new meta

but , if you want to try to make FA more realistic, check battletech!

[KrogothFTW]

What FA lacks is flying artillery, see, so make one with several drawbacks to balance: extra cost, time, micro to fire .edit. -and arm-, and TMD

[uberge3k]

This is actually somewhat similar to a theory I have regarding how to improve lategame T3 air balance by introducing a healthy counter triangle in order to reduce the static elements of ASF spam. Props for independently coming up with something similar.