[spaceships] Proximity Warhead damage

[Ulzgoroth]

Originally Posted by vicky_molokh

Most notably, I like the Elite feel, where a missile lock is a Major Event - it's unlikely to get locked by more than one missile at a time (in fact, four is a lot), it is a near-sure kill if it hits, it gets jammed and dodged furiously, and it isn't automagically shot down by PD.

That's substantially a jet-fighters-in-space sort of model, isn't it? (The other possibility that comes to mind would be subs-in-space, but I know Elite isn't that.)

You'll probably have to first assemble a setting that doesn't work anything like real space before it makes any sense.