which takes more clicking, plus you have to do it EVERY SINGLE TIME they enter a new grav well

psy, if they just ignore gauss, they will fly right through them to get to other stuff

What's the point of having gauss if enemy ships avoid them :/

If you avoid the guns that means it is that much longer a planet is safe, and it is more time wasted avoiding gauss fire while enemy re-enforcements are on route instead of attacking the guns, and removing the problem outright.

The whole point of the gauss guns isn't necessarily to keep enemy ships out, but to protect key structures like your trade ports, refinery's, and shipyards. I dont use them to block jump lanes. I do just like i said, and place a few close by the planets to nail incoming siege frigs. The AI still has a bad habit of trying to block jump lanes with them. I don't try to avoid the guns, I go straight after them. Gauss guns are no match for concentrated fire from your fleets.

However i do agree it is very annoying that "if" you want to avoid fire a ship has to move forward before it can turn. Which defeats the whole purpose of avoiding the fire to begin with.

Wow. Eet, you're going to love this one aren't you

You should contemplate the phrase "digging your own grave" very diligently right about now

Yes Please call us dumb people, considering that your esteem is so low that you must capitalize your font and make it huge just to be listened to I'm sure calling us dumb will make us believe your pearls of wisdom.

Your insulting, therefore i'll have no problem insulting you in the future. Is that really how you want to spend your time on this forum?

Learn some manners.

The key difference between the two is that Eet only acts that way for kicks, but knows how to behave like a normal human being. This guy, though.. just is this way, permanently

Couldn't agree more.

Yep. If you're going to go that far, you might as well just have a "win" button.

they already have it, its the orange button of DOOM!


YOU CANT PROVE THAT!!!

and yah to what yarley said about the insults guys, at least do it behind his back or something... (seriously though, ive shrugged off much worse insults, so just let it be guys)

as to the 'win button' thingy, i'm going to do what all devs fear, the 'how hard can it be' speech! if you hold alt, you can see the ranges of all gauss in the grav well, so why cant you just make it so ships naturally avoid those lines? (if the reason is techy, please dont say a bunch of stuff, a simple yes or no will suffice )