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[Phoenix Rising]

Thanks for the compliments; welcome to the forums!

[Imrix]

Wait wait wait,what's this about the game forcing ships to stay still to fight? I've never noticed anything of the sort! I always found keeping a steady advance under a curtain of laser fire to be rather effective- especially in the base game where I could strip a ship of it's laser batteries down one side, then wear it down by circling around it with a comparatively lightly-armed but faster ship.

Hell, I've killed Acclamators and Victories with Blockade Runners using that tactic. Takes an age to get through the shields but it can be done.

If you tell a ship to attack, then yes it will stay still bar altering it's facing to bring as many guns as possible to bear, or moving into optimum range- but if you tell a ship to move, it will still keep shooting.

Edited by Imrix, 29 July 2007 - 01:12 PM.

[Pred the Penguin]

It's ships stopping when they get in range that's the problem. You might need to focus all your firepower on a single enemy, but while moving, your ship might target other enemies, too.

[Imrix]

Ah. Well, I don't know about you but ordering a ship to stop as it targets one enemy, then ordering it to move doesn't seem to mess with any targeting priorities. Even so, I'm generally happy to just advance under a curtain of randomly-allocated firepower.

[ShadowClaw]

You can designate a target to your ships and then use the move command. This way they will focus on that target while still moving, but this requires much more clicking and micro in general to keep the ships from coming to a halt once they've reached their destination.

[Imrix]

Not much. Click the target, click where you want them to go- oh wow, it's one more click...

[Phoenix Rising]

Yeah, what ShadowClaw said. It will only fire on something else as an opportunity target because your designated target is out of range of a cannon's arc.

[Pred the Penguin]

I still see a lot of random fire, but that could just be me or accuracy issues.

[Imrix]

Probably accuracy issues, although sometimes it might be when the ships moves too much and the target slides out of the fire arc of some weapons.

[Phoenix Rising]

I've noticed that ships are now targeting odd things sometimes, like invisible helper objects, at least in my version. No idea why.

[Pred the Penguin]

Tha'ts the feeling I get, like they're targetting something I can't see...

[Phoenix Rising]

Yeah, I don't know why it's doing that, but they are generally around coordinates (0, 0, 0), so it could be something like a LOS reveal or a planetary advantage dummy. I also had the under construction versions of the MC80 and Imperial become attackable (and destroyable even) at some point, but I was able to fix those because they're not dynamic.

[FormulaRedline]

Sorry to bump from the graveyward here, but I just wanted to say that I've been having a great time playing 1.2! Looking back at the feeback I gave 5 years ago (!), it seems almost everything has been addressed and more. Great job to Phoenix Rising and the team

[Ghostrider]

Also, if you need some help, maybe I could be of service, though I'm not a modder myself, I could do something like write/proof text or do research.

Take a look at General Discussion - I've put a call out for Alpha Testers.

Do you think you have what it takes to test the mod to breaking point and beyond. Basically there will be things wrong in V1.3 development or things that could be done better. We don't know what they are... yet.

Are you up to finding them?

You don't need to be a modder.
You don't need vast knowledge of the SW universe.

You need to say "why is that different from other things in the mod" or spot things like

"When my Dodonna class moves forwards, all the guns fire, but the moment it turns broadside, the guns stop working" (This is a real bug we found in V1.3. test it in V1.2 and see if it's there too.)

Have a look and get back to us if you are interested!