Phase Out Hull autocast of Antorak Marauder not smart

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The Antorak Marauder of the Vasari faction has a skill, Phase Out Hull, which makes an enemy unit or structure invulnerable, but also disallows it from moving, phase jumping, using abilities, etcetera. The problem is that the auto-cast of this ability is not smart in the following case. Near the clean up phase of the game, after destroying an enemy colony, I had my ships destroy the remaining enemy orbital structures. It got to a point where all the units were attacking the last remaining structure, but the Antorak Marauders were phasing out the structure. In effect, it took a lot more time to destroy it than was necessary, since disabling the structure from doing anything only hindered the effort. Perhaps the logic for autocasting Phase Out Hull should be changed so that it isn't cast on useless planet structures or something? I'm pretty sure I was attacking a trade port or something, and there isn't much point to disabling that kind of structure.

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top
Theres an easy fix for this: Right click the ability.

This ability is the most complicated to use in the game, i would never expect a good autocast AI for it ever made.

But making it not autocast on buildings that do nothing and not on factories that aren't building would be good enough of a start.
Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top
Same thing happens with the Advent Revelation's reverie ability.

Extra fun when, as soon as the preferred target is stunned, every ship starts traipsing off in the opposite direction to hit some metal asteroid, or something, and then has to traipse back again when the stun wears off. ^_^

Manual cast is the only way to be sure that it'll get used decently.

Minor, really. A little hands-on management is a good thing.
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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top
Certainly, turning off autocast wouldn't be a problem when you're trying to finish off buildings. But I think it would be a good addition for the autocast to not target certain orbital structures. I don't know, that's just my opinion.
Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top
It is a bitch but i just keep it on after i reach lvl 7 with my maurader cuz it in the begining it gets annoyin but with a cool fleet i really coouldnt care