Initiative

[primitive]

Originally posted by spoon:
In SE4 Gold, the defender always goes first on a warp-point. In old SE4, it is determined by player order.

Not always. There is a bug (or a feature) who makes the attacker fire first once in a while. From my own experience (PBW) I would guess it happens less than 5% of the time. Never been able to figure out what causes it though

[Fyron]

It might have to do with both players sending ships in on the same day, when the defender already has some other vehicles on the WP. The game might sometimes decide that the "attacker" was there first, so it is the defender, but still places the ships as if it were a through the WP battle.