Does anyone use aux control?

I like them except the one, "Require bridges to be placed in the outer hull, but allow aux control in the inner hull." I suggest just not mentioning thiat part next time.
The other three are great and I will mention and support them in the future too.

"...if a shot pierces the outer hull, the ship is almost dead, so who cares if it loses some abilities due to lack of a bridge?"
This is so true!

-Wade

I use them but generaly only on larger ships and stations. Fighting to the last is some times the edge you need

This depends on your ship design strategy. Lately I've been deliberately designing my larger ships to be functional after taking a fair amount of damage, and I think it seems to be helping.

There will come an instant in combat where your ship has lost all of the outer hull, and is left with the inner hull components only. Try to design the ship so that it is still capable of minimally attempting to carrying out its mission. I tend to think of it in terms of "detached boom" or "detached saucer" since I've got a Star Fleet Battles background; as I recall, the detached boom of a Klingon B-10 battleship was pretty much a functional destroyer.

Since many space combats end up being stern chases, putting the main and the aux bridge at opposite ends of the inner hull tends to insure that you'll not loose command capability until the ship is scrap, as your ship will tend to take damage from one end or the other.

Good question, and it leads me to another one: how does upper, middle, and lower deck component placment effect stuff in ship design? Would it make more sense to place an Auxillary Control in the middle-center of the ship as opposed to upper or lower center?

AFAIK the decks have no other effect than to give you more space.

I doesn't just 'lose some abilities' when you lose the bridge. You can no longer control it!

But I agree. Aux Control is completely useless. Space is better spent on armour.

All that is done before the naked stars is remembered

It would be nice if you could level up the bridge and aux bridge to provide bonuses similar to the master computer, and to increase the durability of the bridge. Maybe then providing an aux bridge would make sense...

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Maybe give the Aux Control a lot of structure points to represent it's ability to outlast everything else. Another thought I had was to make it self destruct the ship durning a capture attempt.

SEV, more than a feeling.

In mods with directional armor/damage, the aux control has a purpose. Otherwise, one can just install the bridge last of all inside components, and it will be at the end of the list of things to be destroyed.

Since directional mods will make the AI even weaker, the only fix I see is to make a feature which randomly selects which eligible component takes damage or is destroyed, rather than simply running down the list in order.

Or give it some of the other functions listed above. For now it's pretty useless.

What mods have directional damage? Haven't heard of that.

All that is done before the naked stars is remembered

SJ's Gritty Galaxy Mod has directional damage.

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Stock also has directionnal damage, but non-leaky armor and internal decks almost completely negate it's usefulness, BM even more so since you can't place weapons, engines... in the internal decks.