Posted by: obsidian_green
« on: November 29, 2017, 06:29:51 PM »There is. Don't use it. The 'Auto Assign' button was set up to copy the way NPR / Precursor ships functioned, and it never really worked properly.
Good advice in general, but there's a niche use for auto-assigning targets if the weapons platform has only <I>one</I> fire control. I set my interceptors to auto-assignment so that a squadron can just be given the movement order to a target and they take care of the rest. I don't know if that effects their point-defense setup, when I experimented with auto-assigning of targets for multi-FC ships I only noticed screwed up/inappropriate matches between weapons and FCs and don't recall if it changed my PD settings---I haven't used the interceptors in PD where they got the chance to fire (Gauss turrets took out everything in one instance, all interceptors on sortie in others).