problems with beam sweeping?

[Flashfire]

How are you "beam sweeping" mine just fire on their own at what they want to fire at?

[Shadowcat]

Bring up the combat context menu (NOT on a ship). Select "fire". Pause the game. Move the mouse. Select "fire" again.

[ZylonBane]

That sounds utterly tedious, bordering on "exploit" territory.

[Shadowcat]

In that case, just have someone constantly spray ahead of the target area with a Micrometeorite Gun. That's usually pretty effective, and is basically a fire-and-forget solution if you are standing back and pounding with long-range weaponry...

[Fingers]

Yes, using the fire command to do point defense is essentially an exploit. I thought about removing it from the game when we put in the auto-repair of disabled thrusters (the fire command was originally added to help if you got stuck with a disabled deep hunter)... but it might've caused a mutiny

[TaoLibra]

Well, technically, issuing commands while Paused is a pseudo-exploit too, isn't it?

Not that I care. I figure the enemy is being run by the computer, which has the advantage of instantaneous commands to all of its ships; so issuing commands to all of my ships while Paused only levels the playing field.

[Graeme Dice]

TaoLibra said:
Not that I care. I figure the enemy is being run by the computer, which has the advantage of instantaneous commands to all of its ships; so issuing commands to all of my ships while Paused only levels the playing field.

It's not that you are issuing commands while paused, it's that you are using the beam weapons to act as point defense.