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The player is free to customise the turret loadouts of all ships, and the main weapons of Small and Medium Ships (see the Weapon Configuration part of the Ship Interactions Menu). This allows the player to tailor the roles of ships, or sub-sections of ships, for specific roles (eg. high damage long range or accurate short range weapons). Most ships have blind spots from which they can not attack making ideal spots for their enemies to manoeuvre into. Although an individual ship can be good at dueling opponents, superior numbers are another way to win battles.
Weapon
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Aiming
When the player-assist 'target target' mode is enabled within game settings (default = on), player-controlled primary weapons (foward-facing guns) will automatically aim at a leading point to allow projectiles to intercept the position the target is flying towards. The same approach is taken automoatically by ship-controlled turrets. Player-controlled, dumbfire secondary weapons (foward-facing missile launchers on Small and Medium ships), and primary weapons when player-assist mode is not enabled, wil fire at the cursor's position. Turrets will automatically fire at targets prioritising certain targets based on the mode they are set to.
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Hacking or destroying ships and station storage modules will cause them to drop a proportion of their cargo for other ships to collect. Collecting wares dropped from a station is considered theft, so the station may turn hostile with any ships that do. NPC ships also have a chance to drop wares for the player inventory dependent on the type and faction of ship killed.
Claiming Smaller
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Ships
During combat S and M size ships have a chance to bail leaving the ship abandoned and able to be claimed by other faction or the player. To personally claim an abandoned ship, <player> must spacewalk to it, and then locate and scan a signal leak. After the ship becomes player property, the player can dock with the ship and fly it away.
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