Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-71.62.213.177-20131110195640

Drawing from my limited knowledge of how flares work, it would seem that a heat-seeking missile would be drawn to / confused by high heat from any source - not just one leaving the original source. I do not know the specifics on how Planetside2's missile lock-on works (I presume there is not much available information about this), but am interested in learning more. Allow me to ask my question by means of a hypothetical situation:  If there are two same-faction air units moving together, and there is a lock on one, would the flares deployed by the first airship distrupt the missile locked-on to the second airship? This might be a question for a dev, but if it doesn't, why not? Has this been considered, and if not, do you think there's merit to the idea that any flare deployed near an airship with a missile locked on to it would effectively protect the airship from lock-ons? 