Range & Fire at will issues

[Goekhan]

Raiders have around 3k more range than bombers if I remember correct. But when I click attack, they move closer while shooting, and exactly stop at the range where bombers can also shoot. Also, when you move your raiders in a safe zone (9k-6k=3k range, safe range for your raiders) and allow them to fire at will, they just don't, till they also get some fire back. I think there's a bug, because if you hold Z key pressed down, you can see range of your raiders, and wonder why they aren't shooting. I haven't noticed this with other ships (since raiders are somehow-squishy, having a good range, and fast, so I mostly focus on them to keep them alive) but this is totally irritating. Maybe that range increase (+2k range to all ships) did something here?

[x4000]

Are you sure that this is not simply the interference of shields?  Bombers have very high shields, and that reduces the effective attack range of the raiders by quite a bit.  Most likely they are unable to hit the bombers until they happen to be in range.  That would make sense, given that raiders have almost no shields, and higher-level bombers have around 3k or more.  So given the mechanics of shields, against one another those two ships would have pretty much identical effective ranges against one another.

Let me know if that doesn't seem to be it, but right now I'm suspecting there's not a bug there.  Thanks for posting, and welcome to the forums by the way!

[Goekhan]

I see, I get it now. Thanks for the fast reply! And I don't know but I opened this topic on bug reports, if I did start it here, sorry about that.

Raider shots should penetrate shields

[x4000]

My pleasure -- and you did log it in the right place, but I moved it here since it turned out likely to not be a bug.  Raiders are not meant to be too wonderful against bombers (that's defensive, after all) -- they are more offensive, about... raiding.