problems with beam sweeping?

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

Yes, thank you: I understood what was being said. I mentioned issuing commands while paused as an example of another kind of "exploit" that I consider similar, the difference being that it's less likely to be called an "exploit."

I don't see anything at all wrong with using beam weapons for point defense. In fact, it's far more plausible to destroy a projectile with a beam than to use one projectile to strike another, since beams have (comparatively) no travel time. In the Real World, the most advanced anti-projectile toy that anybody has is not a projectile but a laser — the MTHEL (Mobile Tactical High Energy Laser), which is capable of destroying not only missiles, but even artillery shells in flight.

So I really don't care if using beam weapons as point defense is an "exploit." It should be permissible anyway, as it makes more sense.