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Dev Mason
D3ath D3alers
RISE of LEGION
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Posted - 2012.11.06 03:33:00 -
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When a drop ship is flying toward me, and I shoot missiles, I would expect them to go and hit straight ahead into the cockpit of the dropship, but no, for some reason the missiles will go under and then go behind and follow, making it impossible for the missiles to catch up, and therefore getting me killed |
Paran Tadec
Imperfects
Negative-Feedback
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Posted - 2012.11.06 03:39:00 -
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Dev Mason wrote:When a drop ship is flying toward me, and I shoot missiles, I would expect them to go and hit straight ahead into the cockpit of the dropship, but no, for some reason the missiles will go under and then go behind and follow, making it impossible for the missiles to catch up, and therefore getting me killed
Someone gets its... |
Ten-Sidhe
Osmon Surveillance
Caldari State
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Posted - 2012.11.06 08:56:00 -
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They are steering straight at the dropship. early missiles would do this till somebody came up with trick of having missile maintain a constant angle to target. This builds in target lead reducing missile travel distance. The most effiecnt would be to predict the position of target and make a straight line at it, but this is very hard to code and resource intensive.
Descriptions of homing methods from Modern Missile Analysis: Propulsion, Guidance, Control, Seekers, and Technology
on tail-chase missiles, like current swarms
Quote:Some early missiles engaged their targets by flying directly at them. The guidance law simply aligned velocity vector (in command guided missilies) or the missile center line (in missiles with seekers) with the target. This technique, called pure pursuit, always ended up in a tail-chase, and had limited effectiveness against moving targets.
on constant angle seeker like sidewinder and stinger missiles
Quote:...missile intercepting a target by accelerating laterally to keep the line of sight(LOS) angle constant, The technique is the basis for a very effective homing guidance law. It has similarities to a method used for centuries by sailers to prevent collisions by avoiding "constant bearing, decreasing range."
The skill from EvE target navigation prediction could be used for this. With no levels of skill they would behave as they do now, aligning missile centerline on target. The skill could make the missile maintain the current angle to target instead of further aligning if target is within 36 degrees per level of missile center-line.
This would make them tail chase untrained, and use the constant angle method at lv5. The skills in between would smoothly blend. The skill should be a high multiplier, even one or two levels should increase effectiveness greatly on fast targets.
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