'Attack only Capital Ships' Not working..

[H34Dru5H]

7.1 HF1 Vanilla

This is not an isolated incident, I have seen it on all of my large military ships armed with tracking and dumbfire turrets. They are using up heavy missiles attacking S/M ships and when a L enemy ship comes into play, they are not equipped with a full arsenal of missiles. One would of thought setting a turret to 'Attack only Capital Ships' would do just that but it appears not to be the case. I've not seen this reported as a bug and I'm not one for complaining but I think this needs looking at as it's just wasting peoples time putting stuff out there that doesn't work. It was working perfectly before the new turret options came along, and as there are apparently hundreds of players testing beta versions all the time, I just assumed this would be quickly fixed.

[Nanook]

If you believe it's a bug, you should report it in the Tech Support forum and provide the info requested in the sticky at the top of that forum. You'll get more attention from the devs that way.

[lostboron]

This bug has been bothering me for a while. I disable the turrets and only enable them when a K is near the station. It's the only way to avoid wasting all these heavy dumbfire and quickly run out of missile components.

[Baconnaise]

This bug has been bothering me for a while. I disable the turrets and only enable them when a K is near the station. It's the only way to avoid wasting all these heavy dumbfire and quickly run out of missile components.

I really only use missiles on stations or ships with the Chillmaticas mod, which resupplies missiles on a 0-second interval. I wouldn't bother if you don't use that mod at all. Missiles IS or OOS seem pointless otherwise. The lock on/SMART function again is nice but pointless without it.

EDIT: This goes for vanilla or with VRO installed. Future Google reference besides torp fleets that are microed if you want automated you likely want hammerhead/poltergeist stacks on your S/M/L/XL/Stations as a spread AFAIK.

[lostboron]

I would not bother with missile turrets on defense stations if I was not trying to build boron-only stations. The boron turrets lack punch against L ships if you don't use missiles. But yes, resupply is a pain, especially with traders hanging around the gate defense after finishing a run...