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There are definitely bugs with how far away ships think they should be from their targets.
I mean, probably?
The actual shooting distance is one of the easiest things to figure out.
As someone who suffers from the horrible syndrome of "Too good to use now" or "better not waste it now, I can deal with the enemy without it", I find myself almost never using missiles, despite how strong or useful they might be, because of their non renewable status.
I think they should, yeah - but they mostly do, don't they? Unless it's a carrier or an SO build or some such. If a "normal" build doesn't that's likely an oversight.
out of sight, out of mind.
Also, more pressingly, would you please consider retouching the skill's effect prerequisites so that the player can transfer command to the neurally-integrated automated ship pre-battle, and not need a non-automated ship with neural link deployed alongside it? (Or, make it so that the player can just permanently assign themselves to a neurally-linked automated ship, should they have both the prerequisite skill and hullmods installed? Could handwave it that the player character is physically present on another, non-automated ship.)
retreat the other ship immediately after making the transfer
What I find interesting is how many civilian ships were deployed yesterday in the Discord tournament. Mainly for CH, but some were for ECM/Nav bonuses and a few (triple Prometheus) were even for tanking.
Things I think would make civilian ships more attractive in combat without special civ-only mechanics:
- better ECM mechanics (not all one way or the other)
- being more tanky/evasive
- less bad losing like:
- ways to deescalate (like retreating, mid-combat negotiations, etc.)
- easier retreating
- harder to lose ships permanently
- enemies using their civ ships for CH/ECM/Nav/tanking/distraction/whatever advantage
- other deployables besides fighters like mines, missiles, and stuff
- combat hullmods that have a flat value or a scaling value depending on cargo/crew/fuel capacity
Hmm, I don't know. Is it more handwaving to say what I just said, or to handwave how Lagrange points are somehow a requirement for these hyper-advanced technologies we don't actually have any real understanding of?
Same, I guess we just see this differently. To me placing some of the stable locations at Lagrange points is doing exactly that. While also just doing away with the handwaving required to explain why *every* unoccupied L-point is not a stable location.
