...to enable turrets to autofire at enemies (through modding, since there doesn't seem to be anything like this in the current game)? I don't know whether this would be something that's hard coded or not, but I think its terribly impractical to have turrets that can only be used manually--that basically defeats the point of having turrets in the first place. Turret mode is very debilitating, since you can't manuever at all whilst trying to track targets, and meanwhile you're a sitting duck as enemies fire at you. X-Wing Alliance performed well in this area: craft (that you could fly) with turrets could switch between manual fire for turrets, link fire with the main guns (much the way it currently is in Freelancer), OR autotrack mode, where the AI would control your turrets while you were free to continue flying, unobstructed, and not as a prisoner to a cumbersome turret mode if you wanted to, say, fire at enemies behind you.

It was with great disappointment when I bought a Rhino freighter and discovered in an ambush that my turrets were all manual fire =
If it's not hardcoded, it would be nice to see this as a mod.