SEV Tactical Combat Impressions

[tmcc]

Regarding automove I had one battle where I had 4 ships. Gave them all movement orders and 3 of them stopped when they got the location and one just kept flying arround. Of course that one flew into range of the enemy and was fried. What causes this behavior?

BTW I love the red range circles. We need a new strategy to select "stay out of the ring of death". Brings me back to the old Harpoon days.

TM

[StarShadow]

When you cancel automove (by manually giving a ship orders), it stays off until/unless you turn it back on. In your case those ships just sat there because you didn't give them firing orders, at least, that's how it seems to me.

[Raapys]

Giving attack orders doesn't appear to make your ships fly into attacking position, though, so you have to give both movement and attack orders, and continue to update the movement orders as the enemy ships fly out of range.

[Suicide Junkie]

It isn't a seek and attack order, just a targetting order.

You still have to manoeuver to bring your guns into range before they will fire.

[StarShadow]

Speaking of that though...I think a 'seek and attack' order might be a very good thing to have.

[Suicide Junkie]

Leave the movement AI on, and target manually?

[StarShadow]

True, that's just as good.