Belay that order (ram)

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Barleyman
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Belay that order (ram)

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Currently we've got three AI manoeuvre commands, padlock, stop and ram. Out of the three, ram is questionably most useful as it will manoeuvre your ship towards the enemy of choice .. and ram it. That last part is usually not desirable, but we've got no way of cancelling a ram order once given, the ship AI is hell-bent on rushing the target, overriding whatever manual manipulation of the pips you could do. Often this is not a huge problem since they will blow up their target and it will not leave debris to hit, however, since we wanted to use this as a "close to target" command, it is desirable to give order "today is a good day to live to fight another day", as Worf would put it.

So how about it? Just like padlock, you should be able to click ram button again to cancel the order and return the ship to manual control?

Yes, ideally "close to target" would be nice command to have, but we're working with what we're given.
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