Unable to fire at my own units

[zwzsg]

When I click attack then left click near one of my own unit, the attack order isn't carried out. The only exception is the commander dgun. I tried a commandfire=1; weapon on a candgun=1; unit and it still wouldn't let me fire at my own unit, only the dgun can. This annoys me immensly. If I want to fire at my own units, I should able to. Don't target the unit but the ground below like in TA, but please still carry the order. (oh.... I just realised maybe it tries to do that but find out the line of fire is blocked by friendly and so cancel the fire).

[Felix the Cat]

This is especially annoying when you get an IFF problem. In a game I played last night, for some reason Spring thought an enemy's geothermal plant was friendly and wouldn't let me fire at it.

I finally decided to send about 10 spare AKs, surround the plant, and let his defenses (plasma batteries) kill the plant along with my AKs...

[Min3mat]

lol nice

[GrOuNd_ZeRo]

Yeah, those unit footprint bubbles often obstruct the line of fire of units, it's quite annoying that a Bertha refuses to fire because a plant is blocking it's fire path.

I think a better logic would be needed for firing past friendly units, possibly aiming higher in a ballistic arc so the unit is not hit by friendly units.

I also like to target friendly units to test my weapons on.

also, could there be a toggle for weapon damage? that you can see the damage inflicted on the unit on screen in a numerical value? i.e. a plasma cannon dealing 360 damage to a unit misses but the area damages still does damage, i'd like to see how much the damage is.