The question was quite the opposite: Not to fire as many missiles at once. That's hard coded. Or to be more precise: When in performAttack state, the ship regularly checks if it has more than a certain minimum amount of missiles. If yes, it is very willingly to fire them by itself. This is just part of the performAttack code. When the amount drops below a certain level he keeps the last few missiles for emergencies. One of those emergencies is energy low.Little Bear wrote:Your can use fireMissile in an AI attack state to get it to realease a barrage, with fireMissile, fireMissile, fireMissile
All internal ships are balanced in a way they have an amount close to that minimum value so they never fire that many. But when a ship has many on board, he is more likely to also fire many. This even makes some sense.
For most opponents it does not make sense to fire many times more missiles thean they could survive, even ECM won't help enough. As I said, such behaviour drains the reserves too early and when it's needed, they're not there anymore. Of course, Thargons are a different thing, with the exception of fearing an energy bomb to clean the sky, there it's best to release them as soon as the enemy comes into weapons range, probably even earlier if they are faster than their mother ship.
