Right now, ships can only be given attack orders centered on an enemy. While the attack command can be orbited around the enemy, ships will not go directly towards the attack command, instead preferring to get close to the enemy and then orbit (purple line in the screenshot below).
Right now there is no way to make a ship follow the green line in the screenshot without giving move commands, which is clunky and difficult to do at high relative speeds. Ideally you would be able to assign attack commands centered on specific parts of an enemy instead of the enemy's center of mass, like in the screenshot below. Maybe have this type of part-relative attack command be bound to ctrl-rclick?
