Any way to have a ship cycle its weapons/targets?

[Suicide Junkie]

That's not really what you want, since you need to breach shields and armor before you reduce the enemy's ability to fight back any.

Instead, try the priorities involving "less than X% damage targetted"
Send enough fire at a ship to crush it, but not too much overkill.

If there aren't any other targets in range, the ships will fire all their guns anyways, just because they can, though

[Phoenix-D]

Those priorties don't seem to work very well SJ. People are reporting massive overkill even when <50% is set as the top priority..even when multiple targets are in range.

[Suicide Junkie]

For GGmod, I tweaked the settings.txt values:
Estimated Targeting Damage Percent for Bolt Weapon := 200
And I used the <50% strategy setting...

I got quite a nice missile spreadfire there.
http://imagemodserver.mine.nu/other/...e-o-vision.jpg

[thesilliest]

So if I get GGmod, and use the <50% strategy setting, that'll make my ship do basically what I want?

[Suicide Junkie]

You should be able to do it in stock too. The trick is to make your other prioritizations compatible with rapidly switching targets.

[thesilliest]

Where can I download GGmod anyway, just to give it a try?
I'm still a little unclear on what I need to change exactly. Could you maybe explain the settings a little more, or just take a screenshot of a ship you've already setup? Thanks.

[Suicide Junkie]

GGmod is waiting on a few more beta patches before it will really be playable.

Go to your empire options menu, and scroll to the bottom. Your strategies are down there. Select one, select the priorities, and set them.

Has weapons, <50%, and least damaged will help spread fire.