tyree wrote:
OK. It is lunchtime so I can really take a look at this. The Royal George has only one target, the closest one, the Pelayo. The Hannibal has two targets, the Pelayo and the Monarca, but targets the Pelayo. The Colossus, Gibralter and Orion can fire at three targets, all at the same range, and they all target the Pelayo, wasting their shots against rigging that no longer exists. If the distribution is random, I figure the odds at 1/54 against all of the shots going to one ship. Is today just my lucky day? Perhaps I should buy a lottery ticket!
No the target it's not random, but it's not chosen by the program (was not coded); to tell it with non technical words, it was left to an internal obscure algorithm inside the database. For those of you that knows programming it's just first record returned by SQL in a record set. You will discover that the system tends to fire to the same ship for many turns in a row if no other condition changes. If you are not satisfied with the target the only way is to move away, close up, turn the ships etc.
ciao Alex
