Prism concentrate on me component & network feature

Lafiel

It would be useful if the coming Prism can offer a component which when activated would tell other prism within the same connected network to concentrate their fire on it. I'm saying network as in assignable setup (after build) not grouping or ID or category. I think using network assignment is an easier thing to do then having parts figure themselves out the connection among themselves. This would also serve connected buffing groups, too.

Dumb

Lafiel in regards to the networking of ion prisms,heres my idea : allow prioritization for prisms
why tho? you might ask,well ion prisms currently is somewhat squishy (but definately not underpowered),so for noobs like me who have 2-3 ion "networks" on a ship,i would want an option to priortise each prism in accending order (sorta like labelling ions for the AI) so in mid-combat,i do not need to manual reconfigure each and every prism routine
Example 1: prism 1 to 5 is a network,prism 1 to 4 have ion "supply",ions are transferred in accending order to prism 5,with 5 redirecting the ion beam on the enemy
Situation: prism 3 got shot down
Current problem: ions no longer directed to prism 5, prism 2 just directed their beam according to their own limited firing arc while ion on prism 4 relay on two prisms,drastically decreasing its damage output
Solution: priortise the prisms along the accending order,when prism 3 got disconnected from the network (either being destroyed or lose its linkage with the ship) ,prism 2 will,according to the order,automatically redirect its ion to prism 4,thus maintaining the efficiency in the network

Dalas120

Dumb Could queuing the link command work like this?

Lafiel

Dumb I understand the priorities are basically firing position/direction options or main prism focus points. The problem with this is when they are forming a complete circular circuit the priorities could be confusing for the AI. I think it would be simpler to turn off (manually) the prism according to priority. And this could be done with a popup UI and fixed "priority numbers". I don't think you need more than 8 or 10 levels of priority.

Dumb

Dalas120 wait.....i...don't exactly understand the "queuing the link command" part,can you quote the part that you refer to?

Dalas120

Dumb I just mean that right now, you can only use the link command on one target at a time.

If instead you could queue multiple link targets (like with attack commands), then maybe the prism could aim at the first target until it's destroyed, then swap to the second until it's destroyed, then swap to the third etc.

So you could "prioritize" prisms by queuing up a bunch of links

Dumb

Dalas120 well with this "prioritization",you can assign several prisms under the same priority,allowing changing of network at any time for maximum efficiency,but for queuing the linking commands,the routine for each beam is somewhat restricted in a linear pattern,and may cause some inefficiency