I know this has been brought up countless times already but can we please have our ground auto fire back? The majority of mmorpgs give players auto-attack on their basic attack because PC players tend to like being strategic unlike console gamers who just button mash without much planning or foresight about when is the right time to use certain powers. Those of you that say its just putting the game on auto-play must not have played into the higher levels because even as low as commander level you would still have atleast 5 other powers to worry about using with the basic weapon attack on auto-fire. All having basic attacks on auto-fire would do is make ground combat more about when you use certain powers instead of just mashing 1+2 the whole time through the fight.
Space combat really needs all energy weapons autofire because of the simple fact that we have to many powers on our ships and in space combat it comes down spamming the the space bar instead of siting back and planning exactly when is the best time to use certain abilities to have the maximum effect. I am sure anyone that has flew a high lvl escort class ship knows exactly how much the space bar must be molested just to have a simple fight. Crusiers and science ships also have issues to because cruisers have to learn to rely on their beam attacks because of their god-awful turn rates and science ships have a ton of powers they have that arent really damage attacks so they have to constantly spam space inbetween using their de-buffs and healing abilities. No matter the class everyone would be better off with auto-fire on energy weapons.
Please take note I am not asking for mandatory auto-fire on anything I am just asking for the option to turn it on or off. That way everyone is happy. I am sure the overwhelming majority of the STO community would be grateful if you took the time to put auto-fire back in the game for ground and make it it more useful for space combat.
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