hostile targetting

jere19 · Post by **jere19** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:03 pm

After a few days of trade, i decided to buy myself a fighter and get some action.
I had the bad idea to try its weapons on some LIHW ship : i was in a system owned by LIHW...
I got a lot of attention

But the problem is while trying to dock, i got shot at. and browsing thru the hostiles (by pressing h) gave me all the people who didn't like me, so it took me quite a long time to find the one that was actually firing at me.

would it be possible to class the hostile by proximity ? usually you'd be more concerned by the one very close the you than by the one a few light seconds away

Post by **loki1950** » Tue Sep 12, 2006 11:17 pm

that would be very handy especial with all the traffic in SVN atm.

Enjoy the Choice

Post by **klauss** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 6:33 am

Hot topic.
Bah - was hot at a point in time.

There are important issues in that classification that need to be resolved. A cool hotkey, though, would be "nearest hostile" - that's a standard key, usually 'r', and though it seems the same, it is entirely different once you get into the details. 'r' is implementable. Proximity-sorted 'h' isn't... reliably... without further specification details and buts.

geoscope · Post by **geoscope** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:02 am

We need "r". I noticed that yesterday while trying to find a Rlaan system to do some testing, kept getting shot at, and took forever to target that baddie.

jere19 · Post by **jere19** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:17 pm

Well, i think the "nearest hostile key" would do the job perfectly. It should be more threatening hostile anyway.

mortaneous · Post by **mortaneous** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 8:09 pm

Perhaps a "target the last thing that shot/damaged me" key, not sure if that's easier or harder than "nearest hostile" but it can be rather handy. The only game I know that contains it is "Star Wars: Jedi Starfighter" for XBox.