It's the "splash" of the laser that the missile homes in on, not damage, and the target has to be "painted" for the duration of the munitions flight. Current laser designators don't damage the target in any way and current laser guided munitions still find their targets just fine. Besides, if the laser designator does damage in game, then the in game target will know from which direction the shot is coming from before the missile hits it.

Why not just a really big laser rifle that decreases turning speed while being fired.

They don't damage current vehicles because we don't use shields and with a laser being an Electromagnetic projection, it wouldn't make sense for it not to damage shields (it would be a division of the current lasers damage and only affected by the light sharpshooter skill) and the laser would initially be identical to locking on to it but if it is kept designated, it'll shift towards the nearest weak point on the vehicle to where the laser is aimed at.

Sounds interesting. Submit to Wolfman.

I don't play EVE but I get that Amarr can have missiles too.

Scrambler pistols fire missiles. They are Amarr weapons.

Actually scramblers if you look at the description use a laser induced plasma charge. Thus, the use of holy light. The heretical and ungodly gallente use cyclotrons to convert the mass of the round into a plasma charge which is then magnetically propulsed from the weapon.

Which kick way more *ss than lasers do.

For your treachery and refusal to stand your ground for what you've done, you'll all he comuted to Dust.

-Vermaak Kuvakei

Sunlight is an electromagnetic projection. Most planets have electromagnetic fields which are also electromagnetic projection. Laser Rifles use high-powered focused electromagnetic energy. A low-energy targeting laser would probably be completely ignored by shields, since it's not going to do any damage anyway.

But it also wouldn't provide lasting directional data to a missile post-launch unless it stays on the target, so a laser designator system SHOULD require the targeting laser to stay on the target, or the projectile will land where the target WAS when the laser was last active.

They could make it so holding L1 (aim) would activate the laser designator, and releasing it would deactivate it, so you could choose to mark a vehicle or a location for a ballistic missile to fire towards, and while it's in flight, re-designate and change the course of the missile mid-flight.

EVERY one who quotes eve should know the amarr rockets do EM damage

An angled missile launcher that's main construction is towards the front but the missile comes out from an port towards the rea that has a 45-¦ angle. The biggest change from the swarm other than it only firing one missile at a time, would be that it would fire the amarr missile type which is anti shield. Another change is that it wouldn't be lock on, but have to be laser designated for a about a second or two via a laser attached to the front that does a light amount of damage ( about a forth of the laser rifles and not affected by any sort of damage augmentation) that according to eve lore would have an infinite amount of ammo because of it's low power.
As a bonus for having the laser on target past the missile launch, it'll hit exactly where the laser is pointed, allowing for hits on the vehicle's weak points but it'll still hit regardless to if the laser is kept on target.

If you wanna see a sketch of it message me and any thoughts?

How about a big laser? It would fit the amarr better imo. But they do use missiles on some of there things.

That would be an Amarr heavy weapon, like forge x laser rifle.

Finally someone gets what I'm trying to say

EVERY one who quotes eve should know the amarr rockets do EM damage

i would rather do kenetic. or heat like a man

Anti shield missiles