I sincerely appreciate all the hard work you've put into this mod.
I wanted to provide the following, because I'm seeing targeting and weapon firing behavior that doesn't make sense given the 3D physics described in the manual.
I've got an enemy frigate Cerebus, and it has machine guns and autocannons. It's directing fire at a box of borer drones, hitting and damaging them. There is about 3300 su of distance between the two, so this would be the absolute max range of the machine gun. I'd be surprised it can fire against a destroyer and hit at that range, much less a strike craft given that strafing effects should mean shooting a such a small target would be pretty much a near guaranteed miss.
At the same time, those borer drones aren't returning fire. There are no other eligible targets on the map; every other enemy ship and strike craft are dead, and there are no inbound missiles. Those mining lasers have a range of 6600, so in my mind those should be firing well before the enemy autocannon's 4000 range shells are incoming.
I get the beam weapons have diffraction, and presumably from the mining laser's max range of 6600 there would be little to no damage being applied to the enemy frigate, but....you're a borer drone, what else are you going to do? You have no shields, so it isn't like you're not firing so you can dissipate hard flux. And the mining laser consumes 10 flux/s versus your 100 flux/s base dissipation, so again it isn't like you're not firing so you can dissipate accumulated soft flux. I might even buy the argument that the drones are holding fire to get a 0-flux speed boost, but they are flying in box formation alongside a Shepherd, which has a slower speed than the Borer drones, so there is no need to obtain a 0-fux speed boost if you are just going to keep pace with a ship that is flying slower than your non-0-flux speed. There is absolutely nothing to be gained from not firing the mining laser, and everything to be gained by firing it, especially if the frigate had shields and was goaded into raising them to avoid the mining laser damage (and by extension forcing it to keep accumulated hard flux).
Sorry for the low image quality; forum says 192kb max size but keeps demanding lower files size than that. Let me know if you want original screengrabs.
