Suggestion:
-- Lance Rocket Launcher
- Licenses: 6/-/8/-/- (?)
- Capacity: 4 (?)
- Delay: 2.0s (?)
- Damage: 10,000 (?)
- Splash Damage: 50m (?)
- Detonation Proximity: 5m (?)
- Velocity: 150m/s (?)
- Grid Usage: 4 (?)
- Mass: 4,000kg (?)
- Volume (as cargo): 1cu (?)
-- Addon Port: Large
-- Price: 50,000c (?)
-- Reload Cost: 2,000c per rocket (?)
-- Availability: Capital/Barracks/Research Stations

Comments:
I want to see what others think about it. Criticisms/suggestions welcomed.

Sounds good to me.

This is a dumbfire rocket that weighs more than a chaos swarm launcher, costs more, and does less damage per reload?

Have you ever tried to line up screamers to hit a station turret? Try it some time :)

@ abortretryfail:

According to the above Lance Rocket Launcher stats, it holds four (4) rockets, each rocket can do a total of 10,000 damage. Four times 10,000 (4 x 10,000) equals 40,000 damage per launcher.

The stats on a Chaos Swarm Missile Launcher has forty (40) missiles, each missile can do a total of 850 damage. 40 times 850 (40 x 850) equals 34,000 damage per launcher.

The last time I checked integers, 40,000 is greater than 34,000 (40,000>34,0000).

Now, the stats pertaining to the Lance Rocket Launcher are certainly subject to change, so what would you change about it?

this is an avalon with a faster speed.

150m/s while would be enjoyable for bombers to avoid being killed while stacking leaves an unbalance for the defenders a weapon of this caliber should be slower, much slower

in fact

bring back the avalon instead of this

@ CrazySpence:

Didn't Avalons have a much larger splash damage radius than 50m? Also, I'm not sure what you exactly meant by stacking outside of a compact cluster of missiles, but rockets travel at velocities the sum of its default velocity plus the forward velocity of your ship, and in effect they do not stack like missiles. The closest form of stacking rockets would be to launch rockets as you progressively speed up in a pattern that allows the rockets to impact in at/near the same time, but the rockets would not have the same constant velocity as a cluster of missiles.

If the return of the Avalon (with tweaks) could replace the Lance Rocket Launcher suggestion then replace it.