Phaser Targeting?

posted on June 13th, 2010, 5:40 pm

Hello Everyone, I'm new to this forum.
Before I start I would like to thank everyone involved in creating this amazing game!

Anyway, when a Ship has two phasers, why do they always target the same vessel/station?
Is it possible to change it so each phaser can target a different vessel?

posted on June 13th, 2010, 5:46 pm

Welcome to the Forum.

Ships can target multiple ships (both multiple beams hitting different ships and the standard method of one beam hitting multiple), but that's mainly kept as a Borg feature. Multi-targetting ships from other races are rare.

posted on June 13th, 2010, 7:43 pm

I assume people have already submitted subsystem targeting requests?

posted on June 13th, 2010, 7:52 pm

Probably have, but this is about multi-targetting ships and stations.

posted on June 13th, 2010, 7:55 pm

Ah, I read it wrongt, yeah sorry. As far as I know the Borg are the only ones with ships with multi-targeting and afaik they do target seperate ships which is acutally the part I dislike because I wish they would actually focus-fire which is probably why noone gets the multi-targetingn modules.

posted on June 13th, 2010, 8:02 pm

I'll make one note about splitting DPS against multiple ships usually is less effective than concentrated fired. After the novelty of the borg sphere's split beam wears off, you realize that you're just not getting kills 'cause your opponent is just microing them away to repair.