On a station in build mode activating turrets will activate all station turrets and all turrets on docked ships.
In a docked ship in activating all turrets via the entity structure tab will also reset and activate all station turrets and docked ship turrets,
This leads to lag, as quite alot of turrets could be docked to a station via ships and I would imagine that any ship being able to switch on or off all the turrets is not a good thing.
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Hmm, that's probably intended or an oversight.
I imagine the logical thing to have would be that it activates the turrets on your own ship + everything docked to it (the whole chain) and not the things you are docked to yourself.
This is debatable though...so what do you think should happen if you activate all turrets on something like a station? You don't want the docked ships to activate the turrets...but what if someone else does want this?
This also affects the "Fire at Selected Target" setting for AI turrets on docked ships. Found this out the hard way when I dunked a faction mate in a core.
I think this relates to performance really. If you build a station that can defend itself then it will require a reasonable number of turrets.
Now if you have say two ships docked each with ten turrets then this just drops the fps to single figures and PINGs the server to where it effects other players.
If performance was not an issue, personally I would like each entity (ship/station) to be seperate, but maybe other players would want the maximium amunt of firepower to be activated.
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I'm not sure what should happen with this. Since in some cases you want some docked entities to enable their turrets and in others you don't. It's not a bug so you should maybe leave a suggestion here http://starmadedock.net/threads/game-balance-suggestions.22101 and let the council discuss it. Perhaps they can find a solution that should satisfy most players.