FYI that this should be fixed (for the moment) as of tonight's release.

Unfortunelly, not working yet...

It appears to work for player controlled small ships. It doesn't work for voy moths but their turrets are destructible.

hhmmm..... if so, can it be extended also for NPC moths and atlas?

Yes, inc, the changes didn't touch NPC moth and atlas :/

What kind of idiot bothers shooting NPC moths and atlases anyway?

me

me.

Fixed.

1.8.181 - Fix for Player-operated ships
1.8.182 - Fix for NPC ships also

No, I think that despite those changes, Pizzaisgood and ryanreign are still idiots.
Still, it's nice that the whole turret-targeting thing is resolved!

There is no 'is' in my name - contractions FTW. It is true however that the patch did not fix my idiotness. Neither did it improve the quality of your trolls. They're rather pathetic. It makes me sad :(

"It's particularly ironic that this is an issue on small ships, since you can't do individual damage to small ship turrets at present. So there's utterly no value whatsoever in targeting turrets. It's just a holdover in the targeting code from capships (which is also less than ideal)."

strange, I've been blowing the turrets off of behemoth heavies for years now.

strange, I've been blowing the turrets off of behemoth heavies for years now.

So do I. When I hunt voys, I first of all shoot turret and only then kill moth. Oh, and I kill turrets with A/A off, because autoaim often fails.

swarms also can strip a whole side of a ship of turrets too.

I think the turrets can receive AoE damage, but not direct.

I think the turrets can receive AoE damage, but not direct.

At least on NPC moth heavies, I know that to be incorrect, having targeted and destroyed the rear turrets on many with MP fire.