[JudgeMental]

OK...  I'm not sure if I'm getting this right...  Are you saying that you target a ship, and then the game automatically just puts brackets, and maybe a lead indicator, on whatever ship is closest to your reticle?

If this is true, then it might be vaguely handy in an escort situation.  But, as I have both the escort-target and reticle-target buttons mapped to thumb buttons on my joystick, it's practicality IMO would be limited.

However, in bouncing this idea from A to B to C, I just got an idea...  Let me think about it for a while, before saying anything more...

[Tolwyn]

iin WC targets are not locked by default... pressing 'L' key will lock the target (just like in FS2)

[Flipside]

Hmmmmm... I would of thought that would be a pain if you are trying to fight your way through a fighter escort to take out a beam cannon or the like? The last thing you need it to be glancing down at the keyboard, especially when in Mods like Inferno 'Glancing at Keyboard' = Death

Flipside

[Woolie Wool]

Originally posted by Flipside
Hmmmmm... I would of thought that would be a pain if you are trying to fight your way through a fighter escort to take out a beam cannon or the like? The last thing you need it to be glancing down at the keyboard, especially when in Mods like Inferno 'Glancing at Keyboard' = Death

Flipside

Yeah. With all those big nasty guns and turrets, you don't want to divert your attention for more than a nanosecond in Inferno.

[Tolwyn]

well, you still do not completely understand this: if you press 'l' once, you will have the same targeting system as in FS2, pressing 'l' again would switch back to t´he previous targeting mode.

[Flipside]

Oh right, it's a toggle

I wouldn't have a problem with that existing at all, but to be honest, I'm so used to using the old FS2 controls, I'm not certain if I'd use it.

Flipside

[Solatar]

But why? If people want to do this, put a battery or something over your Y key.