Fighters are tractor beams

[Jmenschenfresser]

Then what, if someone actually uses fighters against your fleet, instead of using them to lure in ships, will your ships just sit there? Or possibly chase down the carriers ignoring the fighters tearing them apart.

[Suicide Junkie]

PDCs will always fire ontargets of opportunity as they fly by.
Your ship just won't use its main guns on the fighters.

[Alpha Kodiak]

Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
PDCs will always fire ontargets of opportunity as they fly by.
Your ship just won't use its main guns on the fighters.

Unfortunately, that can be a problem in the case of a mass fighter assault. PDC alone may not be adequate to deal with a lot of fighters. It is always good to set the fire on seekers to false, otherwise the ships may charge a mass of seekers that would otherwise run out of range, but fighters are a different story.

[geoschmo]

I wonder if telling the main guns to not fire on the fighters would even be enough though to help this. Would the ship with PDC not close to PDC range and get pasted as Jim says even if you have the main guns set to not fire on fighters?

Geoschmo

[Suicide Junkie]

If the fighters have longer-range weapons than your ships, you must be so far behind in tech that you've already lost the game!
When the fighters move in to attack, the PDC fires automatically.

[geoschmo]

No, I am not saying the fighters would have longer range weapons than the ships.

The original point as I understand it was Empire A has long range weapons and sets strategy to max range to take advantange of their greater range. But Empire B launches fighters. Empire A's ships in an effort to attack the fighters with their PDC, which are shorter range than there own Long range weapons approach into range of Empire B's weapons and get shot.

The workaround suggested was to set Empire A's ships to not fire on fighters and count on the opportunity fire of the PDC alone to take care of the fighters. But my question is will that work? It will likely keep empire A's main guns from firing on the fighters, but will it keep the ships from moving to get the PDC into range? If so why would they have moved to begin with? They would have stayed at max range and shot the fighters with the main guns and only used the PDC when Empire B's fighters strayed into PDC range.

Does that make sense? At least my question I mean. I may be making an incorrect assumption, but you get what I am asking?

Geo

[ July 31, 2002, 16:33: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

[tesco samoa]

geo that makes sence to me.

I am still trying to figure out why the ships would move into pdc range when they have longer ranged weapons.... Is the PDC weapon first in the order of fire ???