decoupling movement and attack order

posted on May 29th, 2009, 11:53 am

Dear Devs!
I'd like to ask you if it was possible to decouple the attack from tme movement. Wehen I'm retreating or stafing the enemy while passing by i can't attack a single target of my choice whithout making my ships change their route. Is it possible to make a bottin combination e.g. Shift+Rightclick to make the ships attack a specifiv target without affecting their current movement?

posted on May 29th, 2009, 12:10 pm

That is a cool idea!

posted on May 29th, 2009, 4:01 pm

fantastic 

posted on May 31st, 2009, 2:21 pm

any comments from the mods ?

posted on May 31st, 2009, 2:32 pm

That's a good idea. Not sure how it would be possible though...

Also, there's the way the attack cursor sometimes gets "stuck" on targets. You move it away but you have to wait a sec before it switches back to movement :S

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 3:12 pm

Have you guys tried to manually fire on an area and it automatically snaps to targeting the nearest ship even if it's yours?

Happened to me the other day and I lost a remore because of it :-(

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 4:43 pm

Yup, noticed both those things Quaddmgtech and Exodus... 

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 4:46 pm

Actually I think the mods already said this was on the to do list, but I'm not positive so don't shoot me. 

posted on June 2nd, 2009, 4:49 pm

Actually I think the mods already said this was on the to do list, but I'm not positive so don't shoot me. 

too late! PEW!!!

posted on June 12th, 2009, 11:27 am

Could the mods confirm this please?

posted on June 12th, 2009, 1:37 pm

thats not easy to do, but we can take a look at it for a far future version

posted on June 12th, 2009, 1:42 pm

Also, there's the way the attack cursor sometimes gets "stuck" on targets. You move it away but you have to wait a sec before it switches back to movement :S

Think this is to do with the tooltips. When you mouseover an enemy unit, it will lock your cursor into attack until it has shown the tooltip. Then if you have moved off it, it will revert to normal. I've lost many ships because of this - I mouseover a cube or something to see its stats, then try to move my ships away and end up ordering them to attack.

The only way to stop it that I've found is to mouseover one of your own ships. This cancels the tooltip for the enemy ship, but its hardly convenient.

posted on June 14th, 2009, 8:07 am

ן think this shuold be implemented toghter with evasive maneuvers because the ship need to fire from the rear and tropedos from the back...

posted on June 15th, 2009, 8:46 am

Think this is to do with the tooltips. When you mouseover an enemy unit, it will lock your cursor into attack until it has shown the tooltip. Then if you have moved off it, it will revert to normal. I've lost many ships because of this - I mouseover a cube or something to see its stats, then try to move my ships away and end up ordering them to attack.

The only way to stop it that I've found is to mouseover one of your own ships. This cancels the tooltip for the enemy ship, but its hardly convenient.

Your right, it is. I'm making a new thread: Mouse-over...-ing