Posted by: Charlie Beeler
« on: March 10, 2012, 07:02:38 PM »One thing I haven't seen anyone mention. You don't need capacitor 10's on the 10cm Lasers, they only need 3's. Using larger capacitors only increase cost, it does not accelerate ROF.
First of all, I'm not quite certain I'm putting this in the right place, and my first instinct was to actually try to place this in the bug forum, however, after debating on that for a few moments, I decided it's probably a better idea to put it down here given that it's more likely that I am the cause of the problem.
In that case multi-fire is for you. Probably the best case would be to assign one group of missile launchers on your first BB to one FAC and the other to another, then hit the Same Loc button in Multiple Targets. You'd want to double-check, but theoretically that does what you want.it worked. Finally, my ships weren't slowly getting butchered . The problem is that I'm having to constantly update the firing list/updating the targetting controls, but. . . *shrug* at least it sort of works. Need less fire controls on my ships now though xD.
Also, it wasn't the weapons so much that I was pointing out as the fire controls. Unless you need that many for PD purposes, they're a parasitic weight.I did actually mean the FC.
Ok the ships seem to be firing normally, actually. Autofire isn't really for you. I use autofire when I'm doing things like moving my point defense ships over some hostile freighters. They just do it automatically.This is currently what my Gun/Missile assignment looks like, if copied from the Combat Overview Screen. (Below is my Battleship's selection).
To properly assign firecontrols, pick the first firecontrol, highlight the guns you want, and hit assign.
Then, make sure you set the point defense rules for that fire control, assign the ECCM if there is any, and finally make sure you load it with missiles. I believe the protocol is to highlight the missile launchers and the missile, then hit that assign button.
Now that i think about it, its a really complicated window. I need to hire a really hot blond to work my control panels while I shout commands.
I'd pay good money for that game.
Some of your problems sound like you are using the ships screen to control your settings and not the combat overview. The ship screen doesn't work for the most part. If you use the combat screen you can set up one ship of a type and then use the shortcut options to copy your missile and fire control assignments to all the other ships. Once everyone is set you can select automated fire if you don't want to micromanage the battle.I'm not using the ship screen(that is the one in the ship list, or do you mean the individual ship screen inside the combat assignment window?). Though saying that, when I did use the ship screen and manually told my missile cruiser to fire after manually selecting the damned target, etc it actually complied .
also note the multi-targets button. it will assign a different target, below the current target in the list, for the same firecontrol in other ships of the same class in the fleet. So it's a great way to split your salvos in a pinch.I haven't tried to use the multi-target just yet. . . but that means I'll need to manually select the primary targets always, before sharing right? I'll try it in a moment.
There are buttons to copy the assignments of fire controls and weapons to all ships of the same type, and a button to have the entire fleet hold/open fire.I use the copy assignment thing for weps/fc, as well as clicking the open fire/autofire/cease fire every 10 seconds (where I've lost a ship by this point).
Woah. At first I'd say you incorrectly slaved the missile launchers to the fire controls, but since you had successful combats previously, I'm not sure whats going on here. Every time I've had failure to fire problems its been my fault, so I'm not sure what is happening.To be fair, I might have simply completely and utterly messed up making my Missile Fire Controls, but given that the Audacious (my experimental missile cruiser) was able to fire once I manually told it what to do, I'm not sure that's the case.
We'll need some screenshots. If you have dropbox, consider posting your stevefire. mdb file. If you need an invite to dropbox, pm me with your email address and then i'll get a bonus 250 mb space. Yay! lol. I won't be off work for a good number of hours though.I'll upload some screenshots soon, as well as possibly linking my dropbox. Unfortunately I already have dropbox so I can't provide you with the bonus MB.