STUPID presets ( AutoCAST ON ) on cap ships & target priority

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Just played advent and uses the relevation battlecruiser. Its nice to disable enemy cap, but...

annoying thing first: the cap level up to 2nd level. You select the remote recon skill and what happens. Yeah guess.. ITS ON AUTOCAST and its casting on some random unexplored planet. WFT?!?! I WANT TO SELECT THE TARGET !!

Turn that damn autocast off by default, at least on that skill.

most stupidest thing: Reverie, nice skill disables ships, but WTF the cap prioritizes frigates before a enemy CAP?!?!? ARGHHHHHHH. Whats wrong with this AI. please do something against that.

There are plenty of other skill and other cases where the autocast just wastes antimatter.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
"STUPID presets" in the thread's title : that will certainly impress Ironclad and Stardock officials !

They are going to immediately rush towards their offices, on a Sunday (no less), to comply with your wishes.

Anything else, Lord Customer ?
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
It's a fair point, just rudely expressed.

A simple solution would be to create a 3-second cooldown when purchasing new autocast-enabled capship powers. That gives you the right to pop over to the other menu and toggle autocast off.

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Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
Yep, right now the AI simply wastes mana if stuff is on autocast. It's usually best to turn all autocast off (well, nearly all ... I can't think of one right now but I'm sure there are 1-2 skills that are not thaat bad on autocast ;) ).

A preset to have all autocast off on unit spawn would be really great to have.
Better would of cause be a more intelligent AI autocast ;) But that will probably be a lot harder to implement. And it would take away even more from the player to do (I actually like micromanaging fleet battles).
Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top
its called emotional and the post title reflects my frustration when it actually happend. It made me retreat from a battle! Cause i didnt disable the radiance which in turn fired its combust antimatter onto my cap. Complete change of battle cause of this silly autocast!