Is There A Way to Set Target Priority?

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I've been noticing after having played a number of games now that all ships target certain other ships in an order of target priority.

Is there a way to disable this feature?

The reason I ask is because often in large battles I will have all my ships attacking specific targets and then if the enemy player brings a seige frigate into the gravity well all my ships break off their targets and chase the seige frigate. Its kinda annoying to have to keep retargetting all the ships.
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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Hmm, I'm not sure I've noticed this, except in the case of Cap ships auto-targeting planets for bombardment breaking off to attack a newly arrived enemy fleet. But I believe that if I give them an explicit command, ie right click the planet, they don't cease the bombardment to kill enemies who enter the gravity well.

If this happens the way you say though, I agree that's pretty annoying.

You can shift right-click to queue explicit attack commands to specific targets though, have you tried that? I don't think those attack orders would be interrupted by arriving ships, but I've certainly been wrong before.

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Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
I've never seen a ship break off an attack order that I've given, only when they're selecting their own targets (or being affected by Cap ship powers).
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
I've seen ships do that when they kill the ship I told them to kill already; they'll assign priorities to their pre-coded mind set. I wish they would continue attacking ships in the same fleet I selected initially ... so maybe if the AI could create "fleets" for its units and when I select a specific target in the fleet my units would continue attacking that fleet .... although it does look cool to see a couple of my ships break away from the main attack and chase down other ships ....
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
if you hold down shift you can queue up attack orders to attack in sequence you wish without having to give the order after each ship is destroyed.