Originally Posted by
That Happy Cat
One problem with fire missions is that you have to choose your fire mission BEFORE you can select a target and see what you're about to fire upon. This makes multiple fire missions largely pointless: for example, if you chose a -6 left gimballed fire mission, and then you look at a lase and it turns out the boiler is at +5 right to the midline, you have to deselect the target, change your selection to your +6 right gimballed fire mission, then go back in; by which time the boiler may well have moved.
It really should be the other way around: let you choose your target, see your target, THEN choose the best fire mission for the job. Then we would have reason to make fire missions like -6 gimballed, +6 gimballed, 0-4 distance focused fire, 8-12 maximum range focused fire, etc.