Re: Retargeting Fighters

[Noam Izenberg <noam.izenberg@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Perhaps you can have a toggle on a ship's status tab for "disable  
auto-allocate PDS" for people who really don't want the option. The  
most complex exceptions I can think of are the ADFC, which I made a  
suggestion about, and Scatterguns, which may need _individual_  
"disable auto-allocate" toggles so that an incoming target-switched  
fighter group doesn't trigger all a ship's scatterguns to fire upon it.

Laserlight, you're terribly right about the FTIII fighter rules, I  
think. They will be very hard to implement in FTJ, and if they are to  
be done right will almost certainly require a third turn phase.  
However, FTIII is not here yet, so we don't have to worry about it.

On Oct 24, 2006, at 1:23 AM, Laserlight wrote:

>> out of attack range, that the combat turn gets automatically skipped.
>
> concur
>
>> However, a possibly implementable solution may be to autmatically  
>> target
>> PDS at fighters in range by default. Use some weighted algorithm  
>> for the
>> number of PDS per fighter group (and strength of fighter group.
>
> You know, it's going to get truly sticky if you implement "anti- 
> ship weapons
> can fire on fighters".
> But until that happens, it should be possible to auto-allocate the  
> PDS, I'd
> think.
>
>
>

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