Ship Launched Fighter flies at number 3 formation position instead of number 2

Nene

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Severity
Minor

Frequency
All of the time (100%)

Time of occurrence
23:30 GMT

Date of occurrence
26/12/2017

VR?
None / N/A

Location
nn 3365

Ship/SRV?
Ship

Ship Type
Anaconda

Commander Name
Nene Vespera

Description
When you deploy a Ship Launched Fighter, in terms of combat, the NPC in the fighter will become your wingman. However, the deployed fighter, when issued with a "maintain formation" or "defend" order, will assume a position on the right, behind your ship.

If you look at a typical Finger Four formation used by fighters in the current day, the position behind to the right, would normally be occupied by the element lead, rather than your wingman. In wing combat, this position would therefore be occupied by your fellow Commander, rather than your fighter.

A formation would usually look like this;

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To put it another way - the fighter should deploy in the number 2 position, but always goes to the number 3 position.

Thanks to Cmdr Olivia Vespera for providing the diagram.

(The date and time given are an example of when I had a deployed fighter, but this is not a time critical issue. Similarly it occurs the same with any SLF capable ship, and any fighter.)

Steps to Reproduce
1) Equip fighter bay in outfitting
2) Exit station, and no-fire zone
3) Deploy fighter
4) Observe fighter takes up number 3 position

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Nene

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Well, what is it then? It seems like something QA should have picked up and said something about. It's not even hard to fix, surely?

I don't buy anything about it being in space, because you're still fighting in three dimensions, just like 21st century fighter doctrine, you just have to worry about flying into rocks instead of the ground. Also we know that Finger Four is still a valid formation, because whenever I drop in on a convoy USS that's what they're using. Bear in mind that it's been around 70 years, because it works, and it makes mutual support easy.
 

MickyG1982

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Nene said:
Well, what is it then? It seems like something QA should have picked up and said something about. It's not even hard to fix, surely?

I don't buy anything about it being in space, because you're still fighting in three dimensions, just like 21st century fighter doctrine, you just have to worry about flying into rocks instead of the ground. Also we know that Finger Four is still a valid formation, because whenever I drop in on a convoy USS that's what they're using. Bear in mind that it's been around 70 years, because it works, and it makes mutual support easy.
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