Order of Fire?

[Puke]

I believe it is rank within the fleet, but I am sure that it is ship-at-a-time. ships themselves fire weapons from left to right with no descrimination for wither or not the target has shields (so design them with shield depleters on the left, and be prepared for them to wase their fire)

Knowing this, and knowing that the AI is not too good at figuring out effective combined fire from designated shield destroyers and designated direct-damage ships, its not the best idea to make specific 'roll' offenseive ships if you are not doing TAC combat. give each ship a smattering of weapons, and then it wont matter what order they fire in.

I do like to keep support ships and defensive ships seperate though.