About fighters

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From reading another post, I have one question that I would like cleared up. There is some confusion about fighters I think. Or I guess any ship for that matter. It seems that the battle sequence involves all ships firing at one opponent every turn. If that one is destroyed, then next turn they do another, and so on. What I am confused about, is that I have heard all ships in a fleet will fire at one lone fighter. Of course it will die, but what a waste. And if there are tones of fighters, then who knows, the fighters could become to powerful. This could have been discussed before, so sorry in advanced. But could some one clear it up for me. The game sounds great, but it seems that even great games have an achilies heel.
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Reply #1 from Stardock Forums Top
Haven't heard anyone from stardock touch this subject with a 10 foot pole. Must mean their working on it am sure they'll overcome it
Reply #2 from Stardock Forums Top
Well, I have finally done some testing. It appears that fleet had the following comportement:
- first ship of the fleet fires at one target, damage is calulated
- if ennemy isn't killed, second ship targets it again. If it is killed, second ship targets a new ship. Damage is calculated
- repeat previous step for all ships in the fleet.

So the fleet has a correct targetting algorithm. I got a fleet of 10 medium ships, each with 8 gun attack to have attacked a fleet of 4 fighters. The final report shows that 5 shots where fired from my fleet and none from the other fleet.
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Reply #3 from Stardock Forums Top
Thank you for your information Peace Phoenix. These results are promising. I wonder if the most powerful target is targeted first, or how they decide. Just for my info, how many tests did you do?
Reply #4 from Stardock Forums Top
I believe from my experience in watching fleet battles that the least powerful armed ship is targeted first, working up to the most powerful, with unarmed ships (like transports) coming last.
Reply #5 from Stardock Forums Top
Are we not able to control whhich ships we fire at first? Why would someone want to target all the smaller/weaker (fighter,destroyer) ships b4 a larger,stronger (battleship). If the fleet is comprised of a battleship and 4 small weak fighters, knowing the only ship that maybe able to do damage to me is the battleship, I would want to eliminate/target that ship first but I dont think that the AI should automatically target the least powerful armed ship.
Reply #6 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Are we not able to control whhich ships we fire at first?

We don't have any control on ships.

If the fleet is comprised of a battleship and 4 small weak fighters, knowing the only ship that maybe able to do damage to me is the battleship

Wrong. Since random numbers are involved a weak fighter may do some damage: For each kind of weapon, the attacker rolls a number between 1 and the attack rating. For each kind of defense, the defender rolls a number between 1 and the defense rating (if defense match attack) or 1 and the square root of the defense rating (if defense doesn't match attack).

So having a defense rating greater than the corresponding attack of the ennemy ship doesn't mean that you won't be injured.
Reply #7 from GalCiv2 Forums Top

The algororithm tries to find the most vulnerable threatening ship. 

So a ship with say 1 attack and 8 defense and 10 hitpoints won't be considered much of a threat and may not get targeted versus  a meidum ship with 5 attack and 2 defense and 20 hitpoints.

It's not always the weakest ship, it's the weakest ship that does the most harm.

Reply #8 from Stardock Forums Top
Thank you for the clairification Frogboy. That makes complete sence.