I think the thread got lost, so I'll post it up again.
In Combat, with Automatic fire, the Firecontrol overtake the CIWS and use it as a regular weapon.
Is this meant to be that way, or an oversight?
In Combat, with Automatic fire, the Firecontrol overtake
every weapon and use them
offensively. If this is not what you wish to happen, don't use Automatic Fire.
Autofire is like the cruise control on vehicle, not the automatic pilot on a jet airliner. It does one small, very specific thing and if that's not exactly what you want done you shouldn't use it. Autofire is not 'the default setting' and it shouldn't be your first reaction to combat. Autofire is not (and absolutely
should not be) a system for picking the 'best' targets - it is purely an aid for assigning a large number of targets to a large number of fire controls.
In my opinion, unless you're facing the Star Swarm (or PR/NPR 'swarm' of fighters/gunboats) you shouldn't be using autofire at all.
Yes, Aurora needs a better (or at least, more efficient) system for assigning targets to fire controls. 'Copy fire' helps if you're only dealing with a few targets, but when you have dozens of weapons and dozens of targets - especially targets that are destroyed in a few hits - battles become very tedious. This, however, needs to be an entirely different system from 'NPR fire control AI' and that AI needs to be inaccessible to the players (or at least SM Mode). Players ought to be controlling their own ships, not having Aurora fight itself with their designs.
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If the CIWS is actually firing offensively that's a bug - even if it's not, it should probably be excluded from being assigned to
ANY fire control, by any means. It has its own built-in version.
