Is the missile specialization any good ?

Damage was never the problem, in fact I mentioned quite the opposite if you bothered to understand what was posted in the missile thread. Learn to read. The fact that people think missile ships are "crap" means there is, in fact, something wrong with missiles.

You're simply exploiting the fact that the AI is broken and doesn't respond to damage from sources it can't detect / outside it's radar range. That's not "knowing how to use missiles". That's taking advantage of a bug. I bet if the AI did that to the player (hit you with missiles from far away before you detected them) you'd be crying how the game is stupid.