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Say i damage the weapons on a ship with 2 people. One pilots, one repairs. I damage the shields then, the guy that was repairing goes to the pilot's seat and the guy that was piloting goes to the shields repair. Why all the fussing about and not just have the guy already repairing move to the 'more important' job, instead of allowing the ship to have 0 evasion for a few seconds.

Is this just to balance things out, similar to why the enemy doesn't try at all to 'alpha' to get past your shields?

It depends on system.I noticed AI will repair shields with highest priority. Losing evasion is bad but in the long run without shields you will be destroyed really fast.Enemy ships generally have superior firepower which will pretty much obliterate in alpha strike.Also if enemy will strike all weapons at once shield restore bonus and shield operator would be useless.

The problem is that they 'swap' positions needlessly. X, Y. X is Piloting. Y is repairing weapons. Shields gets damaged. Instead of Y going to Shields, he goes to piloting, and X which was piloting goes to repair, way out of both of their way.