{"action":"created","issue":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251","labels_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251/labels{/name}","comments_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251/comments","events_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251/events","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251","id":118747077,"number":251,"title":"Torpedoes don't seem like they do enough damage and are too easy to use against non-capital-ships","user":{"login":"Pointedstick","id":1097249,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/1097249?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick","html_url":"https://github.com/Pointedstick","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/Pointedstick/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"labels":[{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/labels/balance","name":"balance","color":"fef2c0"}],"state":"open","locked":false,"assignee":null,"milestone":null,"comments":5,"created_at":"2015-11-25T02:31:02Z","updated_at":"2015-11-25T18:26:16Z","closed_at":null,"body":"Torpedoes are billed as anti-capital-ship weapons, but they do so little damage that you'll need to hit with like 25 of them to destroy the average light warship or even an Argosy. That seems like waaaaay too much ordnance for those types of ships. For heavy warships you'll need more like 70-100 hits. Their battle role would feel more correct if they did much more damage but were slower and easier to dodge. This would refine their role into capital ship killers and differentiate them from the Meteor and Sidewinder missiles better, and also allow for some fancy piloting; putting a torpedo launcher on a fast ship and manually flying it into position to fire the thing which was always fun in the EV games."},"comment":{"url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/comments/159694238","html_url":"https://github.com/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251#issuecomment-159694238","issue_url":"https://api.github.com/repos/endless-sky/endless-sky/issues/251","id":159694238,"user":{"login":"thenerdfreak","id":15973422,"avatar_url":"https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/15973422?v=3","gravatar_id":"","url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak","html_url":"https://github.com/thenerdfreak","followers_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/followers","following_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/following{/other_user}","gists_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/gists{/gist_id}","starred_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/starred{/owner}{/repo}","subscriptions_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/subscriptions","organizations_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/orgs","repos_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/repos","events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/events{/privacy}","received_events_url":"https://api.github.com/users/thenerdfreak/received_events","type":"User","site_admin":false},"created_at":"2015-11-25T18:26:16Z","updated_at":"2015-11-25T18:26:16Z","body":"- Meteor is already extremely cheap and you have enough missiles to take down a light warship using an interceptor\r\n- the whole point of sidewinders is to be harder to destroy by anti-missile turrets, faster than meteor, and do slightly less damage\r\n-no. many reasons why not to\r\n-there already is a rocket that does the whole flak thing, heavy rocket has an explosive radius, best for fighting groups of small interceptors/fighters/drone\r\n-javelin is literally made to be spammed, -heavy rocket isn't meant for use against big ships anyway, it's meant to take down small interceptors with its big explosive radius"}}