The Maddening Multiplex

[Graeme Dice]

What I'd really like to see is the ability to set what order the ship will fire its weapons in, regardless of component order. I'd like to just click tractor beams five times, repulser beams five times, then add shield depleters and beams to fill it up. Put the firing order in as tractor beams, shield depleters, beams, repulser beams. Ideally, what would then happen with multiplex tracking 5 is that all five tractors would pick a different target. The shield depleters would then either fire on one ship at a time until all the shields are gone, or simply follow the current model. Then the damaging weapons would fire, then the repulser beams would fire.

You can do this in tactical combat, and it would be great to be able to do it in strategic combat. The idea is to have a decked-out starbase that pulls five ships right up to it, smashes them, the sends those same five flying some 25+ spaces away.

[Baron Munchausen]

Yes, we've requested a configurable firing order before. If you could just supply a list of weapon family numbers in the order you want them fired you could do this and many other things.