Fighters are broken. Can we fix them?

[geoschmo]

Iron Giant said:
The fact that fighters in a stack only can fire on one ship and damage flowing to multiple fighters in a stack? Can I get hard confirmation that those 2 things can not be fixed? I'll take the advice from others with a smile on my face, but after 5 years of playing this game, I doubt that I'll get any revelation that will lead me to believe that fighters are not broken with these 2 issues.

The second issue is definetly hard coded and cannot be changed short of changing the code. The first I'm not sure. Is it possible to mod fighters and give them multiplex? Would that have any effect? If so, would that do what you want?