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[Darloth]

Direct-fire buttons would be nice.

It might be a little easy to trigger accidentally, but how about if you can set a direct-fire toggle on the weapon selection screen, and if it is toggled on, pressing to select that group actually fires it instead?  It would be a third option along with linked and alternating... Only downside I can see is that you couldn't switch through like you can with alternating, because it would be firing a missile each time, but it would stop it requiring any extra keys...

[j01]

I just skimmed the responses in this topic, so I'm not sure if it's been mentioned yet, but it would be great if there was also an Alpha Strike button, to fire all weapon groups at once.

[Nanostrike]

It needs a few things to make the current system ideal, IMO.

1) More weapon groups.  As someone said, six would be perfect (And there's nothing FORCING you to use all 6 if you don't like it).

2) A second (Maybe even 3rd?) auto-fire/hold fire system.  It'd be nice to be able to stop auto-firing your Pulse Lasers without stopping your Point Defense Lasers too.  Or to stop auto-firing your Needlers and start auto-firing your Assault Chainguns.

3) A "Point Defense ONLY for Point Defense" toggle.  This would stop Flak Cannons and Burst Lasers from targeting large ships nearby and ignoring fighters/missiles.

4) A SPECIAL control group called "Alpha Strike".  This control group can overlap with others, because it would be triggered differently.  By pressing a certain key (F would work nicely), every able-to-fire weapon in the Alpha Strike group fires.  This would let you dump all of your chosen weapons on an enemy at once (But would be HUGELY flux-generating and able to overload you easily if you don't plan properly!).

You'd be able to pick which weapons you want in this group so you don't have weapons you don't need (Like point defense/flak/missiles) firing off in all directions.  The "Alpha Strike" system would primarily help Strike Craft like the Hyperion and Medusa.  You could potentially be able to fire off two anti-matter cannons and a pair of torpedos at the same time...at point blank range!