They do have a purpose - they're easy to snipe. They're simple targets that cost a lot, take a long time to return of investment and they have low health. Good candidates to punish your enemy severely with just a few (tech 1) bombers.

You also do not have to click that much, there are in-game options to make capping an extractor a side effect of assisting/upgrading it. If you do not want that side effect, you can also use context based templates. In combination with a recent assembly patch by @Ctrl-K the templates even snap to extractor build sites.

@Nomander said in Bug Report:SMD missing target:

SMD missing and having to fire a second time is unacceptable.

In your point of view it is unacceptable, and that is fine. I disagree.

It's been accepted for more than a decade now. And it's already been improved a while ago with #3893. Those changes at least prevents the many-to-many case being in strong favor of the attacker (multiple defense missiles colliding with the same strategic missile). Now that I think about it, it is a similar fix as #6532 but then specifically applied to missiles.

The game is simulated, this is part of it. The balance team can fix it by adjusting the turn rate of the anti missile.

That happens - and it's okay. Game is simulated, somethings things miss.

Can you share logs, screenshots or other info to help the developers understand the situation better?

@Nuggets said in Siren and Command missile defense:

In an actual game it seems like the cybran cruiser tml or defelection doesnt exist. It MAYBE useful against 1 early tml or billy but thats it. What is even the point of redirecting missiles in a navy fight? You gonna redirect cruiser missiles at cruisers (while not even catching all), which just get destroyed?

There's more to the game than pure functionality - it is also aesthetically quite pleasing to see in my point of view. It just adds a bit of faction diversity.

If I recall correct it was just a production test to see how the defense would hold up in practice. It's up to the balance team to keep it or not. Just a pull request revert away and then it's back to the old zappers .

It depends.

The deflection system does not take into account the missile health. The same applies to the Aeon missile defenses. Therefore Sirens are much more effective against structure-based TMLs, the Aeon Missile Ship and the UEF Cruiser. But, it's weaker against the Seraphim Cruiser because it prefers quantity over quality.

Some pretty refreshing changes.

Maybe @Sheikah and/or @BlackYps has an idea on how to tackle this.

Looking at it quickly - the issue is the default background of the client. If you open it in a browser then it shows fine:

• https://feedback.userreport.com/354e2fbd-fdb7-4282-ae57-df75bf625431/#ideas/popular

I do not have time to look into it right now, but I agree that it is a little suboptimal. When we tested the color layout we had only one (example) entry . If nothing changed in a weeks time, feel free to ping me about it again.