Strange battle ... why this?

[dogscoff]

energy weapons will say any but seekers. As a result it fires at anything but missiles. This is a bit confusing as I know they can shoot at fighters, though not with the bonus dedicated PD gets.

What's confusing about that? Fighters aren't seekers, and seekers aren't fighters. Therefore "anything but seekers" includes fighters.

[Randallw]

It's getting late and I got confused

edit: no wait this is why. It classes fighters as seekers when PD shoots at fighters even though it says only seekers.

If I'm still confused. Well as I said It's late. I'm going now.

[douglas]

Randallw said:edit: no wait this is why. It classes fighters as seekers when PD shoots at fighters even though it says only seekers.

No, stock PD targets "Ftr\Sat\Seekers\Drone", and can therefore shoot at fighters (Ftr), satellites (Sat), missiles (Seekers), and drones.

[NullAshton]

I think the reason why it stayed around and waited to get killed is because of the default strategies. It couldn't complete it's primary strategy, so it went to the secondary strategy which was probally point blank. Not sure, but having the secondary strategy be "don't get hurt" might work well with missile ships.

[Beorne]

Yes. Probably this is the reason, the secondary default is point blank.