Whos on first when it comes to firing?

[Gryphin]

I asked the wrong question.
How do we, (if we can), control which element firers first?
Is it related to the order of deployment?
If I deploy the sats, then enter with my ships will the sats fire first?

[Fyron]

Umm... the first built object _might_ be the one that fires first, but I do not really know.

[capnq]

I think your ships always move and fire first, then your sats and planets with weapons platforms fire, and finally your fighters and drones move and fire Last.

I'm not sure about any of that, though; I don't see many combats with all the types together on one side.

[ November 11, 2002, 21:49: Message edited by: capnq ]

[Gryphin]

I'll test and see what fires up first.
Still, if it turns out that ships get in the first licks, am I the only one that would like it changed?

[dogscoff]

Maybe... Having ships go first could be a good thing, since they can gain experience and units cannot.

I think if a change were to to be made the only satidfactory one would be some system where the player defines the order (maybe a bit like repair priorities?), but that has the potential to be nightmarishly complicated and I don't think it's likely to get implemented.

[Gryphin]

Ships can't gain experiance if they get blown out of the sky buy talisman toting BCs. I'm guessing the 3 ships that could have been destroyed by my sats cost me 1 or 2 BCs.

[dogscoff]

Perhaps short-ranged weapons should fire before long-ranged ones...