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Online legemaine (OP)

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Hi all, I can't remember how many years ago I last actually had a ship fire at something, and it seems that I've forgotten stuff.

I've just had a lone spoiler attack my commercial fleet based at Earth, where I had a Monitor ship and an STO based. At first nothing fired back (spoiler was in orbit so in range of everything) - but then I manually toggled enemy to hostile (who knew - it was killing ships!) and the STO engaged, but the Monitor not. What might I have forgotten to do in order to get the Monitor to fire? I attach the monitor specs, but I don't think I forgot any of the basics (weapon, FC, PP)

Denethor class Monitor      2,618 tons       106 Crew       404.6 BP       TCS 52    TH 15    EM 0
286 km/s      Armour 3-16       Shields 0-0       HTK 26      Sensors 0/0/0/0      DCR 2-7      PPV 17
Maint Life 7.12 Years     MSP 193    AFR 27%    IFR 0.4%    1YR 7    5YR 100    Max Repair 50 MSP
Commander    Control Rating 1   BRG   
Intended Deployment Time: 48 months    Morale Check Required   

Rolls Royce Hobbit II M-NPE-125T15 (1)    Power 15    Fuel Use 87.69%    Signature 15    Explosion 7%
Fuel Capacity 100,000 Litres    Range 7.8 billion km (316 days at full power)

Lockheed Kinetics Firestreak 20cm HCG V40/C3 (2x4)    Range 128,000km     TS: 2,000 km/s     Power 12-3     RM 40,000 km    ROF 20       
Lockheed Kinetics Pepperpot 10cm CDCG V40/C3 (1x4)    Range 40,000km     TS: 2,000 km/s     Power 3-3     RM 40,000 km    ROF 5       
GE Narrowbeam BFC-AM R64-TS6000 (1)     Max Range: 64,000 km   TS: 6,000 km/s    ECCM-0     84 69 53 38 22 6 0 0 0 0
Marconi Spark BFC-LR R128-TS2000 (1)     Max Range: 128,000 km   TS: 2,000 km/s    ECCM-0     46 42 38 34 30 27 23 19 15 11
Hitachi Power PBR R5 (2)     Total Power Output 10    Exp 5%

GE Broadbeam  AS18-R100 (1)     GPS 1000     Range 18.5m km    Resolution 100
Ferranti  AS41-R100 (1)     GPS 5000     Range 41.4m km    Resolution 100

This design is classed as a Military Vessel for maintenance purposes
This design is classed as a Warship for auto-assignment purposes
 

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Re: Such a long time since I was involved in combat
« Reply #1 on: Today at 12:52:44 AM »
Did you enter the "Ship Combat" tab and set targets + open fire for the ship? STOs will automatically attack nearby enemies, but ships will not.
 

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Re: Such a long time since I was involved in combat
« Reply #2 on: Today at 02:12:07 PM »
Hi JacenHan, thanks for this. You were right - that's what I had forgotten.

Playing Aurora is NOT like riding a bicycle - you certainly can't just pick up where you left off. But it probably wouldn't be as engrossing if you could

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