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The fading bax it just a tracking thing .. it tracks where your cursor is moving, has nothing to do with targeting, it's just something so your cursor isn't invisible I guess

The point of the fading box is to show the location of the virtual joystick. As Sylia said, it has nothing to do with aiming.

The reason it seems to work is that the target lead indicator (the big honking green cross) isn't always accurate... it's affected by lag, and such. A lot of times you have to aim a little behind the indicator to hit the ship in question, and sometimes it seems like the fading box thing is what is lining up for the shot, in that case.

All of the above responses are totally correct.

Aim with the green crosshairs.

Also, listen to what the hits sound like. Theres more than one way of hitting an enemy craft.

When you are getting a "normal" hit on a enemy craft, u hear an electric crakcling sound and the shields of the enemy craft flash. You deal normal damage.

When u are hitting the "sweet spot", u hear a metallic, clunking type of sound, and the shields of the enemy craft dont flash. You do a LOT more damage this way.You get those hits by aligning the greet crosshairs at exactly the right way. The correct spotdepends on the direction and the velocity of the enemy craft, so its not necessarily always at dead center of green crosshair, but usually a bit towards the enemy craft.

Look and listen, ull soon get it. And forget about the fading mouse trail box.

Excellent question, btw... i had to find all this out by myself, once you get it, youll soonbe smiling..

IGN Arie