Posted by: sublight
« on: May 21, 2014, 08:22:35 PM »That can be automated.
Go to the Combat Assignment Overview window, click on each of your missile defense fire control(s) at left, and then set the point defense mode at right. Fire controls with an assigned defense mode will automatically fire on incoming non-allied missiles.
For beam point defense set the fire control to 'Final Defense Fire' with max range of '1.' The fire control will automatically fire on missiles as they intercept targets in the same location as the defending ship.
If the missiles are slow and your range is long you can instead set the fire controls to 'Area Defense' with a max range equal to the weapon range. This causes the fire control to automatically fire on missiles ending increment movement in range. This is less accurate, but usually worth it if you can fire at least twice against the same missile wave.
Now, there is an maddening issue where point defense occasionally fails to fire, but that is thankfully rare and has only happened to me twice.
Go to the Combat Assignment Overview window, click on each of your missile defense fire control(s) at left, and then set the point defense mode at right. Fire controls with an assigned defense mode will automatically fire on incoming non-allied missiles.
For beam point defense set the fire control to 'Final Defense Fire' with max range of '1.' The fire control will automatically fire on missiles as they intercept targets in the same location as the defending ship.
If the missiles are slow and your range is long you can instead set the fire controls to 'Area Defense' with a max range equal to the weapon range. This causes the fire control to automatically fire on missiles ending increment movement in range. This is less accurate, but usually worth it if you can fire at least twice against the same missile wave.
Now, there is an maddening issue where point defense occasionally fails to fire, but that is thankfully rare and has only happened to me twice.