I know hahaha mine launchers are useless so lets get that out of the way.
Anyway, contrary to popular believe, mine launchers actually arent that bad as a pve defensive weapons for trader ships. I mostly trade and I've actually used them pretty effectively on all the Lakon trade ships. NPCs dont always dodge like players and its fun to shoot them out when boosting away from an interdiction or weaving thru an asteroid field and watch the pirate crash into them.
Heres my issue:
Mine launchers actually work properly when mounted on the medium points of a T-9. But when mounted on the small hardpoints on the front of the ship, the launchers face upwards into the ship. So when you launch the mines they basically crash into the ship and dont deploy just like limpet drones do that you 'run over' in larger ships.
The only way to actually make them deploy properly from the small points on the T-9 is to drive the ship in reverse when you deploy them.
Would be really great if this could maybe get fixed so you could launch the mines from the smallpoints and they trail behind you like they are supposed to do, since in a T-9 you will never actually be behind anyone or be facing anyone.
Anyway, contrary to popular believe, mine launchers actually arent that bad as a pve defensive weapons for trader ships. I mostly trade and I've actually used them pretty effectively on all the Lakon trade ships. NPCs dont always dodge like players and its fun to shoot them out when boosting away from an interdiction or weaving thru an asteroid field and watch the pirate crash into them.
Heres my issue:
Mine launchers actually work properly when mounted on the medium points of a T-9. But when mounted on the small hardpoints on the front of the ship, the launchers face upwards into the ship. So when you launch the mines they basically crash into the ship and dont deploy just like limpet drones do that you 'run over' in larger ships.
The only way to actually make them deploy properly from the small points on the T-9 is to drive the ship in reverse when you deploy them.
Would be really great if this could maybe get fixed so you could launch the mines from the smallpoints and they trail behind you like they are supposed to do, since in a T-9 you will never actually be behind anyone or be facing anyone.
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