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General Discussion / Re: Are 5 weapon groups enough?
« on: December 30, 2018, 10:28:50 AM »
Issues? Just:
- Putting weapons with mostly non-overlapping fire arcs into the same group (auto-assign's behavior) means they don't focus-fire appropriately because they don't actually have targets in their tiny common fire arc that much. (Assuming the fire arcs actually overlap.)
- Corollary to above: It's much harder to stall two threats of the same class until help arrives with auto-assign's unagile weapon grouping. Case study: beam wolf (Tachyon lance, x weapon, x missiles, and two tactical lasers) with its proper four weapon groups (front-lock, missile, tac laser left, lac laser right) can stall three non-phase frigates until backup arrives, and has some chance of defeating two non-phase frigates without help (or officer!). With auto-assign, two frigates will kill the wolf.