The most problamatic parts would be the targeting of the "missiles" and the fire effect.

Frigates always spawn in the center of the... erh spawner and will either be pushed out when eather move or be pushed by the impulse. This could resoult in the missiles spawning at random places of the mesh wich would look a little wird.

By targeting the missiles could have a really short range weapon or an ability with a moveToTarget instantAction. Because of this the missile will either select a random target or you would have to manually select the target.

You can do a PhysicalDamageAsDamageDealer modification on the enemy ships, but this sort of thing isn't possible.  Your mini ships are going to be anti-everything, there's no way to make them only attract missiles.

You can almost turn fighters into decent missiles by giving them a very short range and an equally short range magnetism effect, so they will get themselves sucked into the enemy ship, dealing damage when they impact.  I have a working example of this in the SOA2 mod with the Borg version of a hangar bay.

It would be messy, but such a thing is the only way I can see to do real point defense and such, missiles are just particle trails in Sins, not something you can specifically act against.  If you didn't mind modding strike craft out of the picture, you could rework all the targeting in the game to have missiles attack strike craft, then make them be the countermeasure.

gruntmaster,if you were to make a new mesh where the bounding radius of the missile would be 0 or extremely low and then make the muzzle effect of the ability the missile muzzle effect,wouldnt that work?

I have a way to do it.

Make a ship have a passive ability that spawns strikecraft instead of missiles. Those strikecraft have a suicide ability with range = 2. It is simple to be able to equip ships with antiSC weaponry and simply call it Countermeasures...

If I have no other assignments today I can start work I suppose...

The Borg strike craft in SOA2 are already set up for that.

My attempts to do a passive ability have only succeeded in making a Javelis fire a fighter every so often that shoots at stuff. Missiles don't shoot.

Poo.

Yeah, the shooting bit is a bit of a bum deal, give it vaporware for an effect and less than 1 damage and it wont really do anything though.

There's working code in AbilityBorgDroneMissile and it's related files in the SOA2 mod currently up for download.

I gave the bombers a 400 range attack and stuck a passive linked squad targeted buff on their spawning ships and structures.  It does a periodic buff every .5 seconds, a 1km range, 1 target magnetize application that draws 1 target within 1km range and does 500 damage on impact.  There's a second OnOwnerDeath triggered buff application in there as well so that I could do assimilation effects and such.

As I'm currently on a shit computer that doesn't handle the processing requirements very well, fine tuning it is a stalled out process.  Should someone who doesn't have .5 second delays on effect processing in game get the damned things to not swirl around their targets as often as they hit home, I'd love to have the numbers you used.  For all I know they work perfectly already on a system with decent processing power.

Frigates can't use the magnetize code, and when they run up to fire an ability, the slow to a stop.  It's fugly.

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that was my original idea.