firing order during combat

[gwichman]

yes there were.. i don't want to not attack the planet.. i just thought it odd my ships felt it was such a threat and didn't care about the null space weaponed ship nearby or the spacec stations or other ships. Planets is already at the bottom of my list under "type priority" but somehow the ships got it in their minds to take that planet out. Apparently this was the target that was the most applicable to "has weapons, most damaged, strongest, nearest"

I can see it having weapons and being most damaged (once a ship hits it, everyone goes after it to finish it off?). I dunno about strongest though.. i think the null space projecter ship was stronger.

Perhaps if i reorder these? Do any of you change these from the defaults? what do you find works well?

Or perhaps i just need a ship with some planetary weapons?