In case some people don't know what it is and to avoid potential misunderstanding over what I'm proposing, missile cam or camera is a function where your camera follows the missile. It's like targeting an enemy ship with "r" and then pressing "z" to have the camera follow the enemy ship around.
There are some issues with this and I will lay out possible ways of dealing with them.
The first one is that of abuse.
Shooting a missile to the other end of the field just as the battle is beginning and then using missile cam to follow it and see what the enemy brought and what they're heading for might make it such that the fog of war losses some of its reasons to exist. After all, the opening moves are where the unknowns of combat have the most consequences, and if it could be circumvented by simply shooting a missile into a dark area and revealing everything there, it would either require that fog of war be lifted or some pretty extensive rewrite of the code.
One thing you could do is to fix the camera very close in so that not much would be revealed and the only thing worth seeing would be the close up of the PD fire and the explosion as the missile hits the ship.
Another way could be just disabling the missile cam whenever it gets too close to the fog of war.
The second issue is one of player designation. If the player shoots more than one missile, how would the computer know which one the player wants the camera to tracked? If the player primarily mans a missile boat with maxed out missile skill and sits near the back for most of the battle like what I do sometimes and I loose a lot of missiles sometimes at multiple targets, finding out which missile I want to watch hit its target might take a long time, and I might miss the cinematic approach as it bests PD defences and slams into the enemy hull. I could pause the game and select the one I want, but doing so halts the momentum of the game and takes away from the immersion the battle might otherwise be projecting.
There are many ways of dealing with tracking the number of missiles, but one I'm currently favoring is using the mouse wheel to track multiple missiles. Instead of assigning a massive amount of keys or using one or two keys to cycle through the missiles, holding down alt or something and then rolling the mouse wheel seems to be the quickest and relatively precise way of finding the missile you want to track.
