Don't forget the Assult Gunboats, they could be slower counters to the Rebel A-Wings, as they came loaded with 2 tubes of concussions missiles I believe.

On the rebel side, you can't forget the Y-Wings ion cannon. It's a must have. And correct me if I'm wrong but didn't the B-Wing have a ion cannon too?

I think there really isn't a problem here. I think there need to be references to the old X-Wing and TIE Fighter games.

Also, TIE Bombers do not carry concussion missles, they are heavy bombers and carry proton torpedos. On special missions they carry other heavier weapons.

What about a target painting ability?

click the fire button and the missle will just go in the direction you were facing (good against capital ships & such)

Hold the fire button or something and the missle will track your targeting reticule for a set amount of time then boom.

could be interesting.
would require lots of skill for pilots to stay with the other guy so that the missle stays with them as well.:)

Target painting would be interesting, but it would make it very hard to hit anything.

Torpdoes need to be balanced so you only get one chance at a hit. If a fighter is almost directly in front of you, you should hit. However, once it doges, your torp won't be able to turn quickly enough to catch up. Torps should primarily be for attacking capships/transports. They need a 30 second lifespan for long range atatcks.

Missiles need to be given a long locking time than they do now, say 4 seconds. Then they should be fire and forget. They need to be accurate, yet have a limited lifepsan (15 seconds). That makes them dodgeable by faster ships, but it takes skill.

A major problem that came up in a mod for a diferent game (anyone played Freelancer?) was Imperial/Rebel balance. You can either give the Imp fighters shields and missiles, or make them incredibly fast and agile, but only have lasers (except for the Bomber obviously). If you go with the latter, this makes piloting either side's ships a totally different experience. However, in this case, you need to give X-Wings missiles to balance out with the TIE Fighters. I'll post this in a table to stop confusing everyone. My diea of a balnce system, basically:

Imps     Ability

T/F        Agile/2 Lasers
T/B        2x torp load of Y-Wing
T/I        Fast/4 Lasers

Rebs

X-Wing   Missiles/Shields/4 lasers
Y-Wing    Shields/Gunner
A-Wing   Fast/shields/2 lasers/missiles/weak hull
B-Wing   1.5X torp load of Y-Wing/shields

Ok, the way it worked back in the day was, yes missiles were a fire and forget kinda thing, but the only ones you would shoot at fighters (the ones that were effective) would be concussion missiles, and only the A-Wing, the TIE Advanced, the Assault Gunboat, and the TIE Bomber carried them.

TIE Fighters and TIE Interceptors don't carry any warheads. TIE Bombers only rarely carry concussion missiles because the Bombers were to slow to be effective agains't enemy fighters.  X-Wings, Y-Wings, and B-Wings carry only proton torpedoes.

Proton torpedoes are fairly ineffective agains't enemy fighters because the torpedoes aren't that fast, and they have a very large turning radius.  They are very effective agains't slow moving or stationary targets.  So while you can lock on to enemy fighters with your proton torpedoes, you won't have a very good chance of hitting them.

I'd say that BF2's system of lock-on/fire-and-forget missiles would work well for our mod because most of the dogfighting will be done with lasers anyway.  If someone tries to throw some proton torpedoes at you from their X-Wing and then hope that you died, that's their mistake because it's easy to dodge the torps.  Then you can come and blast his butt from behind in your shiny new TIE Fighter.

click the fire button and the missle will just go in the direction you were facing (good against capital ships & such)

Hold the fire button or something and the missle will track your targeting reticule for a set amount of time then boom.

could be interesting.
would require lots of skill for pilots to stay with the other guy so that the missle stays with them as well.:)

the rockets in gc where to slow, yes.
in x-wing vs tie they where just fast enof to stay ahead of your ship, but in gc i could cautch them myself (or whas that during testing in alpha :s)

and how would tis be with bombers? Do bombers get lock-ons for there bombs? Or a tone when a target is directly in the bomb sights?

Oh yes one more thing, please make the torpedos and such go fast, in GC they were too slow.