How to fire on multiple targets?

I think to do what you're looking to do, you have to have a look at Strategies.txt and reduce the amount of overkill in the strategies, though by default it's at 150% of total structure, which should do nicely.

The problem I think is that the AI doesn't know how to 'wait' to see how many ships are in a combat. The first ship comes into range, and as far as the AI is concerned, that's the only ship it has to deal with, so it fires everything it's got at the one ship. After multiple ships are in range, you should see the AI spreading it's fire a bit better.

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There's also the question of enemy PD, at least with missile types. If it did only fire 3 at each ship, and that ship could shoot them down, then what good is it? Espscially if 6 missiles would have been enough to swamp the enemy defenses and land some hits.

For direct fire weapons, this doesn't directly apply. But for missiles, though, it migth be a little more complicated than at first glance.

Can't you tell different weapons to target specific targets?

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If you manually control the battle you can assign specific weapons specific targets, but if it's on similtanious turns your just done for.

I hope this will be fixed, but I doubt it. The coding would have to take into account many things.

~ Kingside_Bishop

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The programming for targeting really needs a lot of work in the game. I was just testing space bases tonight, and I cannot get them to target ANYTHING except the PD to fire on missiles and drones.

Here is my thread on my own problem:
http://www.spaceempires5.com/en-US/node/3699

Are we going to see an improvement in the next patch? Ships should really be able to see all of the targets on the map (particularly if they have 'combat sensors,' and be able to prioritize targets and shoot at different ones as they come within range, instead of dumping all of their firepower on a single target when there are actually 10 more ships. Or would the AI then outsmart itself?

This is why we have fleets. That was CK's answer to me.

Longship mod to come out with 1.4x after Unnamed adjusts the Longship AI

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In tactical combat there was a button (I forgot what it was called) where you could select which weapons to fire on a certain ship. If you look around for the button while the combat is paused (space bar pauses/unpauses) you should be able to find it.