Automatic turrets

Auto-turrets, im sure every mod will eventually face such request, quick searching found no such thing yet... So, here it is!

A certain Star Wars mod has/had some sort of working concept of turrets that fire automaticly, as i know nothing of Freelancer editing i dont know how hard it is to mod in such feature but it would certainly have its uses and would enable larger capital-ships to behave the way they should.

Im saying all this in a Single-player perspective, there would be rather nasty balance-issues in PvP if such things existed or they would need very brutal testing first. If possible it would be nice to have separate turrets for normal vanilla-gameplay and then toned down auto-versions of the same turrets that one maybe cant fire manually at all, etc...

Using it as it is, yes it would be cheating, thus my idea of balancing a set of new specificly made auto-turrets one cannot fire manually at all and with much reduced power.

Basicly the whole concept is to make large multi-turreted capital ships act like they should: Fly smack in middle of the battle, fire in all directions and outlast an outnumbering enemy. Or "Press a button and wtf-pwn some starter npc-pirates for fun"

You could also mix in a few "normal turrets" to pick off targets of priority while the rest slowly chew up the surrounding enemies.

Also a merchant-ship could focus on getting out of there while its turrets provide cover against the faster and smaller enemies.

AS MENTIONED - im saying all this from a SINGLE PLAYER perspective. Maybe it would be best to leave em out of MP games before fully balanced.

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Simple question: How hard is it to make auto-turrets? Cause im not seeing any mod using them, or did i miss some? Ignoring balance etc. Just "how hard" ?

Ok fine, its your mod.

But regardless, im still asking "how hard is it" as i dont see ANY mod actually using such... Kinda strange imo. Or is there any mod using it?

Comparing things: How hard would it be to add auto-turrets? Back in the day there were some talk about it, some said it was virtually impossible, since NPCs use em, why cant player...

Freelancer is certainly based to be "fighter-craft game" and leave cap-ships to NPCs but considoring mods bring cap-ships to player and they have huge amounts of turrets, its kinda silly to be able to fire in only one direction at a time. Some vanilla ships lose quite some of their dmg-output because some turrets never face the right way.

Perhaps you can say im driven by the fact that the single-player balance is bit off, and to be honest this could "even the odds" a bit. Coming from a longtime MMO-player (till i moved further from a proper connection) i can imagine what auto-turrets could do in MP and PvP, thus im only requesting em as a perhaps "standalone" addon-mod to be used in Single-player.

Im just trying to ficure out why havent anyone done auto-turrets. Is it because its too complicated or what...