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[Lightningfalcon]

I'll never forget the time that ECM forced my two destroyers + sensor/jump ship into enemy missile range, when I could have easily annihilated the enemy fleet from much further away.

[ThtblovesDF]

You could just take the missle design and the meat around it out of the game, give it a graphical interface and make good money on steam from just that.

[Alastar]

@ Dramegno: The 30k missile looks good to me, for your given tech.

Personally, I favour engine concept over fuel efficiency/multiplier tech because of how badly higher mulipliers impact fuel use.
Magneto-Plasma, 0.8 Fuel Efficiency, 2.0 Power is only 5k RP more expensive (EDIT: "useless" reactor tech included.) than what you have, and would allow engines that are 7% more powerful with 31% better fuel efficiency (EDIT 2: meaning the 5000k missing RP could be diverted from the Fuel Production line and you'd be strictly better off).

With that tech, you could get 32000km/s AMMs with a  67.2% to hit a 10000km/s target at 9.1m km range (or 64% at 15.2m km).

[Dorsidwarf]

I build ASM with 30 million range and 80,000 km/s or so, but I do have antimatter drives.

My ship missiles are all size 3 ( except my size 100 'Gilgamesh' experimentals) because all my missile ships have s3 missiles, and I want backwards compatibility on all vessels, so all new vessels have s3 launchers.

[QuakeIV]

I find four is generally the ideal mixture of damage and number of missiles you can jam into a magazine.

At low TLs though I will go above that, because 2 damage 4000km/s missiles kinda suck.  (generally speaking anyways, there was this one alien race that had 6000km/s 'gazelle' missiles (i remember them in tense horror) that had extremely high agility and had upwards of 100% hit rates against even my fastest ships (we were both at the nuclear pulse level))

[Alastar]

For me, it depends on details.

Large missiles work much better when you overwhelm enemy point defence by number of salvos rather than number of missiles. For example when deployed from scores of tiny torpedo bombers carrying a single missile each. Usually size 6-12 for these.

For full-size launchers, I rarely go above size 4 unless they're doing something tricky with lots of weight overhead (sensors, multi-stage designs).

Box launchers come in all sizes. From size 1 dual-purpose missiles to gigantic mines/sensor buoys/1-hit-shipkillers-with-inbuilt-chaff.

[Dramegno]

I will probably just we make my launchers and magazines with the new tech I have researched and work up to the next level of engine tech and other missile tech while setting my pd destroyer to use a missile family so I can just keep on designing missiles then what ever one I end up with gets loaded in since here soon my colonies are going to be wanted to be defended for some reason.

I remember reading somewhere that you could do MIRVs in Aurora is that still a thing or did it go the way of the torpedo?

[jocan2003]

I will probably just we make my launchers and magazines with the new tech I have researched and work up to the next level of engine tech and other missile tech while setting my pd destroyer to use a missile family so I can just keep on designing missiles then what ever one I end up with gets loaded in since here soon my colonies are going to be wanted to be defended for some reason.

I remember reading somewhere that you could do MIRVs in Aurora is that still a thing or did it go the way of the torpedo?

Mirvs are basicly mutlistage missiles, you design a big-crazybig-huge missiles, then add a multi-stage option middle of the windows, choose the payload ( previously designed missile ), set a separation stage and there you go.

Good warhead is massive speed/payload, barely any fuel at all since they only have to travel a very very small distance compared to the mother-missile, i prefer launching the warhead as far as possible to saturate enemy point defense and go sand paper approach, i prefer very fast, small payload, high number to make them waste anti-missile and garantee some kind of damage so then my size 6 ship killer can hit them hard.

[Dramegno]

when I think of MIRV I think of a missile that splits into multiple smaller missiles/bombs near the target(s). so am I misunderstanding you what you are saying? It sounds like you are describing a run of the mill multi stage rocket that may or may not have targeting sensors on it with one payload.

An example of what I was wondering about just to be clear would be firing one missile that after getting half way to an target splits into 4 size 1 missiles to effectively pepper the target or for AMM use to keep the number of launchers down.

[Culise]

Correct.  First, design the second stage that you want to have carried on the missile, which will operate post-separation in the terminal run.  Then, when you design your delivery stage, you can specify a second stage for the delivery stage in the missile design window, as well as the number of missiles you want to have carried.  Give me a tick, and I can rummage up a screenshot.

EDIT:
Here we go,  in case there's still any confusion.  Note that this is obviously not an optimum design; I've been using mundane kinetics as point defense rather than Size-1 AMMs, so my five-second MIRV proposal is going to try to deploy four size-six ship-killers for a payload larger than the rest of the missile.  I also didn't bother fine-tuning the primary engine or separation distances at all.  Or anything, really.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

EDIT 2:
Oh, and I should clarify that some people refer to all multi-stage missiles as MIRV, even those that are not "multiple" or undergo "reentry", simply because this design parameter is so general - any second stage, from carrying a single missile up to a payload larger than most fighters, is controlled through that section. 

[Rince Wind]

Why would you put points in agility?

[Culise]

Hypothetically, or in this particular example?  In a general case, agility boosts your missile's ability to hit anything on the scale of the broad side of a barn or smaller.  Depending on how fast your missile is moving already, it may be easier to adjust this than your velocity.  The thing to really be careful for, though, is to make sure the accuracy penalty from the extra mass doesn't counterbalance the accuracy gain from the extra agility. 

In this particular example?  Because I didn't reset it to zero while playing around with the Previous Designs dropdown to see if I already had a multistage missile designed on this game. ^_^

[origamiscienceguy]

Where do you download this game?

[Metalax]

Where do you download this game?

On the Aurora Forums in the Installation subforum. It's been a long time so I can't recall for sure, but you may need to register with the forum for the installation subforum to be visible.

[Akura]

Nah, you don't need to register on their forums to download. I certainly never did.