I think total autofire on ground is less exciting, like watching a robot that autotargets and fights for you. Almost like cheating even, though of course annoying if you want to use 2 powers in a row.
HOWEVER what would be good is if holding down the 1 key or whatever you use to fire made it fire continuously
while you are holding down the button, like CTRL or left mouse click in other shooty games? I think that would solve both problems of it being less fun and of shooting interfering with other controls
Tabula Rasa did the same, and lots of people have agreed that was a fun way of doing ground combat:
http://forums.startrekonline.com/showpost.php?p=2381348&postcount=40
(I suppose it's way too much to ask to have it fire at where we point the mouse, be able to shoot characters in the leg rather than kill them etc and human face skin being magically resistant to lasers when shields are gone with no one even in huge battles wearing helmets for some reason, but there's always hope for the future maybe)
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