chaff and reflecting nebula in a can

[Betelgeuse]

An interesting thing to add to the game is more tactical type weapons and defenses. Such as an usable item that makes enemies less accurate in there aiming at you or maybe decoys that you can drop off.

[Blinzler]

how about a mine that you can detonate when you see fit?

[Fossaman]

I keep wanting to stick a Morningstar cannon on an ICX and call it a chaff gun. It's already awesome for blocking missiles.

I want decoys to wait until George adds engine exhaust. THEN they'll be cool.

Maybe some 'defense barrier' type things similar to the titanium barricades, only not customizable? Just drop it perpendicular to your aft with the 'u' key.

EMP missiles with an area-fragmentation effect.

Tractor or Repulsor beams and fields would be delightful when it comes to tactics...non-damaging, but with a momentum effect.

A 'paint' gun. Similar to a DMX missile rack, you would shoot an enemy ship with this, and all tracking weapons that you fire will try and hit that particular spot.

[Karl]

...an usable item that makes enemies less accurate in there aiming at you...

Sounds like a good cyberattack... or a klingon-style cloaking device (can only cloak when not firing).

and nebula in a can...

...what the terrestrials call a smoke screen. Yeah, you should have the freaking James Bond spaceship. 8)