With some of the ships that are in place, the linking of the R and T slots would be useful. (for instance the 2 R gun BBs that fit singles of the same size in T slots)

I'm not sure SDE can figure that one out though.

As for front/rear linkage, I like the idea (not as much as linking the R and T slots) but again, the same problem occurs. I have no faith in SDE to figure that one out.

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I think LESS firing modes are needed right now. Maximum velocity and simultaneous do the same thing. I would like to be able to toggle which firing modes appear in the cycle.

#1, Ok but I dont think I would personally use this mode.

#2 I can see this one being a major problem. Generally you cant mount the same kinds of weapon between the 2 kinds of slots. It would be a nightmare to manual adjust big guns and small guns to the perfect angle.

If you could do it(or just use automatic FCS), then that would just allow battleships to unload massive broadsides of large and small guns taking out any small ships without trying.

It would really remove any weakness of battleships getting up close as they would be able to simultaneously fire their main and secondary guns. On higher tier battleships thats 10-20 mounted multi-barrel turrets.

Chaosticket, unfortunately, your lack of experience shines through in that post.

Auto FCS at the BB level suffers massive accuracy penalties.

While they are rare, there are ships that mount the same size guns (mostly as singles) on the T slots as the R slots. The pallada, the rurik for example.

Most battleships that carry T slot guns are AA anyways, and using that kind of a setup with manual FCS would be difficult to impossible to abuse. With auto FCS, ranges and spread would be so bad that it is not worth it, and range is king as a BB.

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