Homing extra questions

[Kilcannon]

One of my players is planning on taking Homing built into his ranged damage power. Is the power extra really only 1 point per rank in the extra? That means you can get the homing effect adding to any power for just one point allowing you to do something entirely different in a second round while your first round's attack gets to attempt to attack again. It seems very cheap for an add on extra. Now I'm already limiting the homing extra to one rank since I think it could get confusing to have the homing ability for multiple rounds, especially if the player plans on doing this order with multiple rounds....

Round 1: Make ranged damage attack, but misses
Round 2: Make ranged damage homing attack from first round, but misses and Another ranged damage attack in this round, but misses
Round 3: Make ranged damage homing attack from first round and hits this time, Make ranged damage homing attack from second round, but misses, and makes another ranged damage attack in this round...

and this could keep going on. More for keeping track I am limiting Homing to one range than game balance since I have six players in the game at the moment.

If anyone can tell me if I have the rules wrong or have house ruled anything to make it work. I think the extra is a great idea, but want to make sure it doesn't get out of hand.

[FuzzyBoots]

If you only allow one application, Homing basically acts as a "second chance" for the attack. It only gets one more chance, so your example works out more like:

1) Make ranged Homing Attack, misses.
2) Makes roll for prior attack, misses and it dissipates. Makes second ranged Homing attack, misses.
3) Makes roll for prior attack, misses and it dissipates. Makes second ranged Homing attack, misses. etc

Also, you can only do damage once per target per attack, so if the following happened:
1) Make ranged Homing Attack, misses.
2) Makes roll for prior attack, hits. Makes second ranged Homing attack, hits.

Your target only makes one damage save that turn. Now it is legal, however, to do this:

1) Make ranged Homing Attack against target A, misses.
2) Makes roll for prior attack against Target A, hits and they roll for damage. Makes second ranged Homing attack against target B, hits and they roll for damage.

[Kilcannon]

Thanks my example was more for if i didnt.restrict.the.extra

[FuzzyBoots]

Thanks my example was more for if i didnt.restrict.the.extra

{nods} If you allow multiple applications, the worst case scenario is that they get a few more chances with each attack. They still only get an additional attempt if they miss and they still can't do damage twice with the same attack to the same attacker without use of Extra Effort.

[Kilcannon]

Can they have homing and a different type of attack on the same target in the same round?

[FuzzyBoots]

Can they have homing and a different type of attack on the same target in the same round?

Yes. http://www.atomicthinktank.com/viewtopic.php?t=24842