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Feedback and Suggestions / Engineer control of Engineer AIs

« on: August 18, 2013, 08:32:38 am »

Greetings,
I am a relatively new player, but I love the game and I've been told that Devs do actually read these things so here is my suggestion:

I. Engineer player(s) can assign Engineer AIs to specific areas or components of the ship.

Pros -
1. Avoids AIs wasting time running around the ship and stepping on the toes of the player engineer (really bad on the Mobula!)
2. this gives Engineering players a feeling of being Chief Engineer - nice!

Cons -
1. this gives engineering players another task to juggle
2. conflict resolution with orders from multiple players. . . but if you have 2 engineer players and AI is on engineering too you've got bigger problems.


II. This can be overridden by the Captain's commands to AIs (but is persistent when they switch back to Engineering duty) - In other words, Chain of Command.

Thanks!

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Feedback and Suggestions / Re: Displaying fields of fire.

« on: August 18, 2013, 08:13:41 am »

I just want to be clear: I don't think ANY of us suggested having the fields of fire display as part of the HUD. That would just be silly.

We were suggesting it for the ship customization screen.

I totally agree with this suggestion.

I'm a new player, but that is one of the first things I thought about when looking at the ship customization screen.

Viewing solid angles could be confusing in the 3D interface, but even a few 2D schematics would be helpful (e.g. TOP, PORT, STERN).